In his speech, Modi spoke about energy, critical minerals, electronics, defence and fertilisers. That is a more strategic approach than Nehru’s across-the-board one.
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited contractors, politicians and officials more than Adivasis.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
How could it not be so. Eighty years have passed, the world has changed, so has India. A better framing of the question would be, why is India so diffident towards full throated economic reforms. Maharashtra itself could equal Vietnam. There should be no export diffidence. Name one developing country which has prospered by looking inwards.
How could it not be so. Eighty years have passed, the world has changed, so has India. A better framing of the question would be, why is India so diffident towards full throated economic reforms. Maharashtra itself could equal Vietnam. There should be no export diffidence. Name one developing country which has prospered by looking inwards.
One is a third-rate socialist, the other one is a fourth-rate socialist.