The HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 58.4 in June from 57.6 in May due to a rise in demand for new orders and growing exports, primarily to the US.
A typical woman-owned informal manufacturing unit is about half the size of one owned by a man. The GVA or gross value added per worker is about one-third, indicating productivity loss.
Apart from India-China, international media also looks at how venture capitalism can go wrong, using the example of Byju's. An article explores factors that led to its downfall.
India must leverage its state capacity to implement policies that support businesses while avoiding coercive actions that create chilling effects on companies and investments.
New working paper authored by former CEA Arvind Subramanian and others finds Indian firms increasingly prefer multiple plants in a single state rather than scaling up single plants.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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