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Saturday, May 18, 2024
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Topic: Economy

What India can learn about smartphone manufacturing from Vietnam

More than 10,000 foreign companies—including major global players such as Samsung, Intel, and LG—operate in Vietnam today, mostly in export-oriented, labor-intensive manufacturing. 

India can lead the next industrial revolution if it plays its cards right

With over 50 per cent of its population under the age of 27, India’s role is going to be pivotal in shaping the global Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda.

Maruti is the model for government as it hopes to profit from Air India stake sale

The govt wants to sell a 76% per cent stake in AI that comes with a debt of Rs 33,392 crore; the remaining 24% is likely to be sold later, when share prices go up.

India has much to learn from the opening of China’s onshore bond market

A $54 trillion miss highlights India's bond disconnect.

There may have been reasons to support Modi in 2014, ‘right-wing economics’ wasn’t one

Modi govt’s tenure has been a case of squandered opportunities and a ‘lost half a decade’ for the prosperity of Indians.

Nirmal Jain: The commodities trader who became a billionaire by managing India’s new money

The Mumbai banker’s $20 billion private-wealth-management unit has become India’s biggest by assets. Nirmal Jain has hit the jackpot serving the new rich in the...

It’s not the rise of China we should worry about, but the decline of the US

The US displays a worrying level of unpredictability, and at its centre is a man behaving like the Red Queen as he shouts “off with his head” at all.

In first reaction to PNB-Nirav Modi scam, RBI governor Urjit Patel puts onus on govt

Patel defended the central bank, saying it is simply impossible for the regulator “to be in every nook and corner of banking activity to...

As India celebrates GDP growth, it must focus on growing economic inequalities

Our all-time low private investment rates indicate that the greater part of this income sits as idle savings, ensuing minimal productivity.

It’s time to review priority sector lending and pull commercial banks out of risks

With 40% of banks assets, or 32.4% of GDP, riding on this instrument alone, the debate about priority sector lending is not new. There is a new-found urgency to make it fit-for-purpose.

On Camera

Mamata’s ‘outside support’ push has many meanings. Does she want INDIA to pick TMC over Left?

TMC should worry about minority voters and how they view her ‘outside support’. Minorities are with the TMC but they have also watched Rahul Gandhi march across the country.

India’s GDP to grow at 6.9% in 2024 — UN agency revises its January projection of 6.2%

Latest report by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs says global growth to be faster than estimated earlier & India’s 'robust performance' to boost South Asia’s growth.

Spain denies port call to vessel carrying shipment of ‘arms to Israel from India’

The Spanish foreign minister says 'the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace'. Spain has been very critical of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.