Unless the Taliban goofs up in a big way, which seems highly unlikely, we are looking at a regime that will be around for quite a long while and present a level of governance that the puppets of the richest and most advanced countries failed to provide, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Thackeray, who is also president of the Shiv Sena, said his alliance partners -- the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress -- are 'positive' and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is benefitting from their experience.
Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs, the company said.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai MCGM has announced a 20 per cent cut in water supply from midnight tonight as it looks to cope with the crisis arising out of the "poor rainfall" received by the city in June.
"Though we reiterate our commitment to peace, our defence forces -- the army, the air force and the navy -- are adequately mobilised in a well-coordinated move to thwart any attempt to undermine our security. Our national interest will be protected at all costs. We have also ensured a widespread understanding in the international community of India's firm and principled stand," the President said. India and China are locked in a nearly nine-month long military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would help. India has plenty of wise economists who have worked within the bureaucracy during previous crises, points out Rahul Jacob.
The International Olympic Committee and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be postponed, and held no later than the summer of 2021, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Tuesday. After a call with IOC president Thomas Bach, Abe said the July 24-August 9 event would be rescheduled for the summer of 2021 at the latest, as proof of victory over the coronavirus.
Asked whether the improvement in the index of industrial production data, released today, indicates that the worst is over for industry, Ahluwalia said, "We do believe that the worst is over. (But) there is difference between the worst being over and getting back to robust growth.
Scandal-plagued FIFA have turned to the man who helped the International Olympic Committee (IOC) out of their corruption crisis, appointing Swiss Francois Carrard as chairman of their reform committee.
The Business Process Outsourcing companies in India appear to be handling the impact of the global economic crisis much better than IT firms
According to ICRA, even in a high-growth scenario, wherein the second half of FY20 sees the incremental bank credit rise to Rs 6.5-7 trn, there will still be a 40-45% year-on-year decline.
India's crisis-hit auto sector is driving the recessionary blues away. All car makers are upbeat, staging a comeback with new models.
Blocked working capital worth Rs 1,500 crore, in the almost-defunct job work diamond polishing units, is expected to be released even as diamantaires will issue fresh orders to such units following the GST relief.
'Kerala is probably the only state, where (with regard to) the clinical management and the overall protocols, we have an infectious disease team heading the whole containment plan.'
GIC has increased its reinsurance business in Dubai from Rs 369 crore in 2007-08 to Rs 517 crore in 2008-09. Similarly, the company's fully underwritten cover amounted to Rs 326 crore this year in London, where it started operating in 2008. "Global insurers are showing faith in GIC. It has got some psychological support in view of its sovereign rating," a senior GIC executive said.
The growth of India's IT outsourcing sector, which contributes to about 25 per cent of the country's total exports, is expected to slow down sharply this year following a drop in demand due to the global financial crisis, India's software industry lobby predicted.
However, as compared to April last year, foreign direct investment in the first month of the fiscal 2009-10, was much lower.
During April, the imports stood at 34.2 tonnes, as per data given by the Bombay Bullion Association.
FDI inflows, in August last year, stood at $2.32 billion, the Reserve Bank said in its bulletin.
The value of global mergers and acquisition deals is likely to drop by nearly 50 per cent this year, even as the financial crisis throws good opportunities for takeovers, a study says.
'Slowing down of the economy was mainly due to the demonetisation shock...' 'If you cut off the oxygen supply to a patient in the ICU and the patient dies, the patient does not come alive again when you restore the oxygen supply.'
India's gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between 2011-12 and 2016-17 should be about 4.5 per cent instead of the official estimate of close to 7 per cent, he said in a research paper published at Harvard University. "The Indian policy automobile has been navigated with a faulty, possibly broken, speedometer," he says in the paper.
International traffic dropped by about 10 per cent and domestic traffic by about 24 per cent compared to the same period last year, predominantly as a result of the terror attack in the country's financial hub Mumbai, says Himanshu Singh, managing director, travelocity.co.in, an online portal.
Opposition on Thursday paralysed Parliament, with Rajya Sabha disrupted over demand for the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his response in the demonetisation debate, which the government rejected outright.
Attlee said Great Britain had concluded that the Indian element of the army was no longer reliable and that Netaji's Indian National Army had demonstrated that. That had shaken the foundation on which Britain's Indian empire rested, argues Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd).
The 2010 batch of IIML has the 'unique' feature of having 92 per cent students with work experience and a number of them exhibited great enthusiasm for working with start-ups and utilising their experience to help guide these budding organisations to success, IIM sources said. Student placement coordinator Shashank Mehta said the students here had experience which start-ups value and all the projects there would be live projects.
Detroit's bailout request is an opportunity for the president-elect to prove himself.
The broadening of the market rally sends the signal that growth will be broad-based, observes Akash Prakash.
All airlines put together flew 67,61,000 passengers in January-February this year compared to 75.56 lakh last year, the official traffic data released on Friday showed. As per the world airports report prepared by Airports Council International, the growth rate of global air traffic in January fell by six per cent year-on-year while that of air freight declined by 'a frightening 27 per cent'.
The government kept its nerve in the face of a massive shock. It chose not to resort to a massive fiscal stimulus. It focused instead on providing liquidity support and easing restrictions on movement in stages, observes T T Ram Mohan.
Gold prices will rise next year as the financial crisis pushes more investors into the precious metal safe haven, according to delegates polled on Tuesday during the London Bullion Market Association annual meeting in Kyoto.
'The RBI is not releasing Rs 2,000 notes for the last 10 days; probably they have stopped printing it.'
'The government had a vaccine from January.' 'The government should have given the vaccine to all population above the age of 45, right from the start.' 'Each state has its own problems, but as far as vaccine coverage in India is concerned, there have been mistakes.'
Modi, after delivering his sixth straight address to the nation on Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi, went into a brainstorming session with Sitharaman and all top officials in her ministry, sources privy to the development said. T
'People are already sending congratulatory messages. But I have said, "Please don't until the trials are over".'
With the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government marking its first anniversary on Saturday, the first year is likely to be remembered for the fulfilment of decades-old Hindutva demands as Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the huge majority his party won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to push through its core agenda.
Eighty-eight per cent of Indian consumers are prepared to pay more for goods that are environment friendly against 82 per cent in China and 68 per cent in Japan, according to a study of consumers in India, China and Japan. Findings are part of a 10-market global study by international communication firm Edelman.
Alarmed by the huge drop in the arrival of foreign tourists to the state due to global recession, Kerala government has set up a working group to chalk out strategies to tackle the crisis.
This flight of capital began in early August due to risk-aversion created first by rising geopolitical tensions due to North Korean aggression and second by the US Fed's decision to shrink its balance sheet
