To boost exports, India must accept its challenge is internal, even though it keeps raising fingers at unfavourable external factors like trade protectionism.
Govt data says export of non-basmati rice declines by over 37% — from 50,48,000 MT in April-November 2018 to 31,41,000 MT during same period last year.
As many as 18 of 30 key sectors, including petroleum goods, leather products, rice and tea, showed negative growth in exports. Imports also declined by 16.31%.
India’s efforts to subsidise exports is drawing the ire of rival growers in Brazil & Australia, who say the policy is depressing world prices and hurting their farmers.
Discriminatory laws limit firms from hiring willing women, and removing such barriers can help narrow the economic gap between developing and developed countries.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.
In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
Difficult to make out where domestic politics ends and international relations begin. One would have expected MEA – now in the midst of its biggest internal reorganisation in fifty years – to caution against this approach. With godowns bursting at the seams, some of this precious wheat will become unfit for human consumption.
Difficult to make out where domestic politics ends and international relations begin. One would have expected MEA – now in the midst of its biggest internal reorganisation in fifty years – to caution against this approach. With godowns bursting at the seams, some of this precious wheat will become unfit for human consumption.