'Most students find it difficult to cope with the way they are expected to learn at the IITs.' 'So, all the students face the same stress.' 'But those students who are mentally weak are more affected.'
'You know the kind of force involved in all of this. They are not good for the country where all of this will happen.'
Marking a significant improvement in their attitudes, a higher percentage of global executives feel the economy is recovering and 71 per cent think the stock market will continue to improve in the second half of 2009.
India's growth in the last three financial years has averaged just 1.9%. It is natural to project rapid growth from this low base. Crucial to that would be the assumption that the economy has suffered no lasting damage from the pandemic, observes T N Ninan.
The challenge is to enhance opportunities for people to generate livelihoods through entrepreneurship, both big and small, argues R Jagannathan.
'And Joshimath has already shown the dangers ahead.' 'We have to acknowledge that our mountains are still young babies.' 'You don't put an extra load on the back of a growing child!'
'Our civil society here is vibrant, and courageous, although it is beaten up and beaten down, repeatedly.'
An economic think-tank on Thursday said the feel good in the economy claimed by the NDA government was "fragile" and listed out 30-point deficiencies, saying nearly half of the country's population did not have access to basic healthcare.
'Chinese real GDP growth is 7.1% and India's is 7.4%'.
'For the common man, the economic conditions are not going to get better.'
Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud has said that the decriminalisation of Section 377 of IPC by the apex court has enabled queer people to emerge as legally empowered citizens.
Observing that it is not yet clear to him what the government means by 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', Rajan said if it is about creating an environment for production, then it is a re-branding of the Make in India initiative.
'At the heart of the strategic relationship between our countries are economic ties.'
John Williamson, Senior Fellow in the Institute of International Economics, thinks that the rest of the world will be impacted much more than the US, while former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan says that there is no concrete data to prove the argument.
'80% of the rural and urban population don't have enough purchasing power.'
'Hatred increases with every killing.' 'It sets one family against another.' 'The sooner it is stopped, the better.'
New Delhi can strengthen its leverage by having better relations with the two than they have with each other.
Indian society may be more advanced than we think it is, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
'India and China have to make concrete progress with regard to the border issue, addressing the trade deficit, and facilitating people-to-people interactions. This has to happen in the next two, three years.' China expert Tansen Sen tells Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com how India and China can take their relations to the next level.
With the Nifty50 just about 3 per cent away from its all-time closing high of 18,812 points, analysts at BofA Securities suggest investors book profit. Their reasons for the advice include risks like the possibility of a cut in corporate earnings growth forecasts, high valuation (one-year forward P/E of 19.5x), interest rates staying elevated for longer-than-expected and credit tightening. Going ahead, they expect the Nifty50 index to drop to 16,000 levels - down nearly 12 per cent from the current level of 18,255 points, which they believe would be a good time to buy.
A bit of economic reforms stalled and decisions delayed -- what Narayana Murthy spoke of -- don't hurt if a country's compassionate and inclusive social fabric has survived intact; if the country is happy, observes Shyam G Menon.
'It's a clear case of political patronage helping an individual grow.'
A way out of the economic slump is to revisit the template of 15 years ago and follow its constituents, recommends Ajay Shah.
Atanu Biswas explains the economics behind hosting a Games in pandemic times.
The last date to apply for the September 2022 term of the programme is August 19, 2022.
'Rahul inspired Indian industry with an ethos, an ethos of being more confident, more independent, more thorough, more competitive, more generous, more public-spirited, and more national and more international all at once,' remembers Naushad Forbes.
India needs a place where all regulators could gather and function as in a war room.
The letter shared with the media on Saturday comes amid Maharashtra losing several big-ticket projects to neighbouring Gujarat.
Let's wait for the monetary policy on February 8 -- to see how it complements the fiscal commitments, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'She showed courage at every turn in her political career.'
'No Cold War should be reignited and no Ukraine-style crisis should be repeated in Asia'
'There are many things we need to work on.' 'At the heart of it is, one, the extent of inequality, which is not good for democracy and nation; two, a structural decline on how a country ought to function, how people should be held accountable, whose role is what.'
'If the situation deteriorates and there is further escalation, the USA is in preparedness.'
Expectations were probably too high from Narendra Modi.
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
'A lot has been done under the leadership of PM Modi. He is a patriot of his country. His idea of 'Make in India' matters both economic wise and in ethics. Future belongs to India, it can be proud of the fact that it's the largest democracy in the world,' the Kremlin said at Valdai Discussion Club.
Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Wednesday refused to speculate on whether the G20 foreign ministers' meeting would be able to come out with a joint communique against the backdrop of widening differences between the West and Russia on the Ukraine conflict.
'The way discrimination against Muslims has become almost normalised is very upsetting.'
Dr Ajay Kumar Sood will have to complete a task his predecessor started: Getting the government to sign off on a new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy on which work was begun in 2020.
'For the first time, all major countries are discovering India's indispensability to their own foreign policy interests.'
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