India buys everything from electronics to key drug ingredients to industrial machinery from China and reducing that reliance won’t be easy, experts say.
The nation wants to know the reality of the coronavirus spread, the situation at the LAC, and the condition of economy. But the Modi government is washing its hands off.
Transport accounts for 23 per cent of global energy-related greenhouse emissions. But existing electrification technology could cut down these emissions by 2050.
Johnson’s message to UK is clear — get out and get spending. But despite his drive to get life back to normal, businesses will have to ensure proper Covid measures are followed to avoid new cases.
International remittances make up 7 per cent of Bangladesh’s GDP, but Covid-19 has adversely impacted its migrants working in countries with strict lockdowns.
The Kübler-Ross Model of ‘stages of grief’ can easily be applied to Indian consumers during the pandemic. Brands should know who they are dealing with.
Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Well, it is a tough call. Longer India continues its dependence on China, more handle that China gets. Anytime, China can pull the rug from under the feet of India. India had better start the process of relying less and less on China. It would be foolish to continue to rely on a billigerent China and give one more weapon in its hand to hurt India. If need be, India should provide finance to Indian companies in which China has invested to buy them out.
But anybody saying that it would be possible to lift a billion people out of poverty in just 40 years and become the second largest economy in the world to rival the US in the process, would have been considered a crackpot.
Is anyone still under the illusion that China is benign?
It’s do or die.
The argument is same as that of a drug addict. Well get out of it because it’s harmful and will make you a slave
Well, it is a tough call. Longer India continues its dependence on China, more handle that China gets. Anytime, China can pull the rug from under the feet of India. India had better start the process of relying less and less on China. It would be foolish to continue to rely on a billigerent China and give one more weapon in its hand to hurt India. If need be, India should provide finance to Indian companies in which China has invested to buy them out.
Not easy for sure.
But anybody saying that it would be possible to lift a billion people out of poverty in just 40 years and become the second largest economy in the world to rival the US in the process, would have been considered a crackpot.
Is anyone still under the illusion that China is benign?
It’s do or die.
The argument is same as that of a drug addict. Well get out of it because it’s harmful and will make you a slave