India must dedicate its efforts to solidify Quad as a serious security alliance and signal to the world that it values its values-based relationship with US above transactional ties.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Two submissions. For a high value product like grain based alcohol – most alcohol in India, including so called whisky and brandy, is made from molasses – unclear why grain that is unfit for human consumption should be used as a raw material. That is bound to have a bearing on the quantity, perhaps also the quality, of the alcohol produced. More importantly, if the distilleries were producing more alcohol than they were disclosing to the state excise authorities, it is not just a statistical or yield variance. There would have been clandestine physical removal of non duty paid alcohol from the distillery premises.
Two submissions. For a high value product like grain based alcohol – most alcohol in India, including so called whisky and brandy, is made from molasses – unclear why grain that is unfit for human consumption should be used as a raw material. That is bound to have a bearing on the quantity, perhaps also the quality, of the alcohol produced. More importantly, if the distilleries were producing more alcohol than they were disclosing to the state excise authorities, it is not just a statistical or yield variance. There would have been clandestine physical removal of non duty paid alcohol from the distillery premises.