The Budget’s emphasis on seven ‘strategic and frontier’ manufacturing areas is clearly not random. These are areas of high import dependence, strong employment, and rising geopolitical sensitivity.
India’s cultural content in the field of art, music, dance, food, festivals, and architecture can catalyse countries' services and manufacturing sectors, particularly MSME and cottage industries.
Like China, India remains a big domestic market, which will continue to attract investment, but the US tariffs will make India unattractive for future investments.
A researcher at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies argues that India has aligned itself with the US since the trade war began, seeking favourable terms to attract relocating industries.
The rebound in growth in December quarter was expected, owing to improvement in govt spending, festival-induced boost to consumption & a sharp increase in non-oil exports.
Govt also revised growth estimates for 2023-24 to 6.5%, up from 6.4% earlier. This means growth in final quarter would have to be at 7.7%, far higher than economy has recently seen.
The first advance estimates peg India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth at 6.4 percent in FY 2024-25, compared to 8.2 percent growth recorded in...
The latest govt survey of the non-agricultural informal sector shows it shrank between 2015-16 and 2021-22, following which it has been growing both in terms of establishments and workers.
General MM Naravane’s memoir—Four Stars of Destiny—reveals that he was left hanging by political leadership for more than two hours as Chinese tanks drove towards Indian positions.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Sadly, the transition from pursuing Nehru’s model of development, rooted in the bone-tired Western school of thought focused on absolute industrialization since the 1950s, to a less acknowledged yet future-safe Eastern approach to economic development – one that has led countries like Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and many smaller Southeast Asian nations to reach the pinnacle of development – is being misrepresented as an uninformed monopolistic game by the BJP, rather than recognizing it as the majoritarian government of India (NDA).
The editors of The Print seem to be becoming little more than uninformed social media scrollers, aiming for topical notifications while maintaining the illusion of engaging news coverage.
The intent should be to pursue the right solutions rather than settling for generic approaches that merely satisfy short-term goals. A focus on contextually meaningful development that leaves a lasting impact is essential for remaining competitive in the global development race.
Sadly, the transition from pursuing Nehru’s model of development, rooted in the bone-tired Western school of thought focused on absolute industrialization since the 1950s, to a less acknowledged yet future-safe Eastern approach to economic development – one that has led countries like Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and many smaller Southeast Asian nations to reach the pinnacle of development – is being misrepresented as an uninformed monopolistic game by the BJP, rather than recognizing it as the majoritarian government of India (NDA).
The editors of The Print seem to be becoming little more than uninformed social media scrollers, aiming for topical notifications while maintaining the illusion of engaging news coverage.
The intent should be to pursue the right solutions rather than settling for generic approaches that merely satisfy short-term goals. A focus on contextually meaningful development that leaves a lasting impact is essential for remaining competitive in the global development race.
Also, because of the Congress party, India is the world’s number one fully industrialised-advanced, free-market economy with AAA credit rating!