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By B Sambamurthy Real GDP hit a decadal high of 8.2% during 2016-17. Since then, it has been on a downward slide and declined to about 4% during 2019-20. Covid-19 inflicted significant damage to economic growth and growth hurtled to a negative 6.5% in FY 2021. Keeping the impact of Covid-19 aside, the deceleration of […]
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The Telangana government last month signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), or more broadly a Mini-Free Trade Agreement, with the government of Thailand to explore trade and investment in key sectors. This is the first time that an agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Commerce of Thailand and a State government in India. […]
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By V Thiagarajan The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently slashed its forecast for global economic growth by nearly a full percentage point citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, and warned that the world must brace itself for an economic slowdown as well as a burst in inflation. The IMF expects inflation to remain elevated throughout the […]
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By Vijay Kumar You can think about this as an embodied internet operated by many different players in a decentralised way. You’re inside of rather than just looking at. We believe that it is going to be the successor to the mobile internet — Mark Zuckerberg, 2021 Euphoric Verse The rapid speed and scale of […]
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By Dhananjay Tripathi Imran Khan, Pakistan’s hero of the 1992 World Cup cricket team, who till late appeared to bat well in politics too, suddenly got himself into a difficult situation. In the last few months, he was under mounting political pressure on his government by the opposition parties. Khan, after making all kinds of […]
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HDFC and HDFC Bank merger sparks optimism, but regulatory costs, risks, and long-term integration challenges raise questions on sustained benefits
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A nuclear landscape is not necessarily just Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima with their burnt human forms and devastated cities. Nuclear landscapes are terra nullius, nobody’s land, because they have been rendered unfit for life
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Rising debt, shrinking foreign reserves, dismal fiscal and the pandemic are sinking the island nation Sri Lanka needs to make nearly $7 billion in payments on foreign loans this year. And its foreign reserves are dwindling fast. It faces huge debt obligations and is grappling with its worst economic meltdown since independence in 1948. The […]
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By Sanskrithi Thakur Creation of forest as its lap has been Mother Nature’s greatest act of benevolence towards its children – be a tiny little insect or a ‘thinking and evolving’ human. In a perfect setting that could never be matched by the most creative set designer, a loving mother laid down everything from the […]
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By Amitava Mukherjee While holding ‘Lenin and his associates’ responsible for the birth of Ukraine as a separate geographical identity, Vladimir Putin, the incumbent Russian President, has certainly failed to grasp the real message of history. Putin thinks that ‘Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by […]
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By PS Dileep, M Srinivas, B Krishna Mohan Success stories have been many — from the world’s largest multi-stage lift irrigation project to hosting the world’s biggest businesses’ ‘only office’ outside their headquarters, to farm revolution. The State’s focus on 3Is — innovation, infrastructure and inclusivity — is spearheading growth across sectors. Up, Ahead The […]
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By Dhananjay Tripathi Europe is considered a central region, both in theoretical and practical terms, when it comes to world politics. The history of Europe in this regard is quite intriguing. In fact, it will not be wrong to say that majority of the present day international system was initially shaped in Europe and later […]
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Electricity cannot be viewed in isolation but as part of a broader programme dealing with the States' social and economic development
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It rides on rhetoric and has little substance to combat either inflation or facilitate growth
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By B Yerram Raju Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) form an important part of Indian banking and occupy about 7.5% of the financial sector space. Despite the failure of a few UCBs like Krushi, Charminar, and the PMC Bank lately, recognising the need for reforms in them as part of mainstream banking, the Reserve Bank of […]
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The star Prime Minister of Hyderabad State, whose 193rd birth anniversary was on January 21, brought English education, customs and etiquettes to Hyderabad
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By Marcia Rieke The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away on December 25 on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European […]
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Telangana boasts of cooperative successes such as the Mulkanoor Cooperative Rural Bank and Marketing Society Ltd, which is also a role model in several ways
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Landscapes of war’s horrors march through multiple iterations of the unthinkable
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Ukrainian and Western officials are worried that a Russian military buildup near Ukraine could signal plans by Moscow to invade its ex-Soviet neighbour. The Kremlin insists it has no such intention and has accused Ukraine and its Western backers of making the claims to cover up their own aggressive designs. Russian President Vladimir Putin has […]
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By Beni Sumer Yanthan Brother, Your blood has drenched this earth And soaked up our sins, Your silent screams now hang above This parched town Where the mist gathers at dusk To pay homage to your last moments. Your body became the battlefield Of a republic at war with itself, Your song is now a […]
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By V Upadhyay In mainstream economics, the questions related to distribution are generally not considered very significant. Discussion of distribution is confined to the field of Welfare Economics where utilitarianism provides an important theoretical framework to debate social welfare issues. Utilitarianism had initially allowed for redistributive measures if they had the effects of increasing total […]
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Non-implementation of open-ended procurement policy in true letter and spirit is against the mandate of Food Corporation of India
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Not buying parboiled rice in Yasangi effectively means not buying a single grain from Telangana this season
