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...
IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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