'2020 will show whether India's troubled domestic economic and political house reveals a mismatch in their strategic association or whether closer strategic ties are yet possible,' says Anita Inder Singh.
Nitish Kumar will be the chief minister only till the time the BJP wishes, points out Ramesh Menon.
The Indian economy may be booming but when it comes to ease of doing business, it ranks way down at 134th position among 183 countries.
Experts said a dip in consumption expenditure indicated an increasing prevalence of poverty in the country.
'It is perplexing to see the leader of the First World with a first rate medical infrastructure come up short on its foresight to handle the pandemic,' notes Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
'The Mumbai-Pune Olympics will be help shift the country's gaze to a region that denotes a new formula for sports, enterprise, and nation building,' argues Shashank Mani Tripathi.
'The digital economy will generate 60 to 65 million jobs by 2025, 20 million more than the 40 to 45 million existing jobs that are in danger of disappearing or getting automated,' points out T N Ninan.
Rupee volatility could be dampened if it is steadily manoeuvered to levels consistent with inflation differentials, say Jaimini Bhagwati and Abheek Barua
Kanyakumari has the highest per capita income in Tamil Nadu and the second highest literacy rate. There are 23 candidates the fray.
The wisdom lies in shifting the investments to rest of Mumbai, and restrict the Mumbai-centric investments to fill the gaps, catch up with the graph and not for the future. The investment in Mumbai later should be only towards maintenance.
A new study suggests that mortality rates during economic recessions in developed countries decline rather than increase.
'Where is the spirit of Team India?' asks Chandrababu Naidu.
With urban India growing by leaps and bounds, it is expected to experience a severe water crisis by 2020 and the per capita availability of water is projected to be less than 1,000 cubic metres.
The National Sample Survey Organisation has found wide disparities in the monthly consumption pattern of rural and urban households during 2007-08, with the former spending just half of what their urban counterparts did.
A conducive labour situation could also help push the nation's per capita income to a $4,100 (around Rs 1,87,554 at an exchange rate of Rs 45.74 per dollar) by 2025, according to the 'India Labour Report 2009', released in partnership with IIJT Education.
Economist Deepak Nayyar says economic openness, while necessary, is not sufficient, and is conducive to development only when combined with industrial policy.
'A rag-tag coalition is more insecure and hence, more inclined to reform,' argues Devangshu Datta.
Tata Steel has ventured into pilot projects that promote use of steel in furniture and house doors.
'Falling labour participation rate is common in the ageing populations of the developed world.' 'But India is a country with a young population.' 'It is imperative that the labour participation increases.' 'We need a larger labour force to increase our per capita income level,' points out Mahesh Vyas.
Blaming the media for creating a confusion on milk prices, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the Centre has no proposal to increase milk prices.
The share price of other ADA group firms declined as well, including Reliance Infrastructure (lost Rs 1,660 crore), Reliance Communication (Rs 867.5 crore), Reliance Capital (637 crore) and Reliance MediaWorks (Rs 60 crore).
She would be the first Indian to be occupying the coveted post at IMF after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
Though the NITI Aayog did not give its estimates for the required GDP growth at constant prices, economists pegged it at 9 per cent, a feat not seen since the GDP series was revised with 2011-12 as the base year.
India's per capita green house gas (GHG) emission in 2030 will be well below those in the developed countries in 2005, according to a report.
China is the second largest spender on defence after the US. T
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is on a three-day visit to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
China and India are on different sides of the climate debate and, after the United States, Beijing has to make the most cuts.
Among the main industry segments, manufacturing activity declined to 5.9 per cent from 10.6 per cent a year ago.
The challenge ahead for central and state governments remains enormous.
Falling incomes and longer winter to translate into lower demand for at least some months.
It is necessary to have a dramatic increase in the number of rapid tests for COVID-19 conducted on a large number of people and that should become the basis for estimating the morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, not relying only on hospital reports, says Professor K Srinivasan.
The Indian government has demanded that the year be changed to a more recent period, taking into consideration the rise in food prices and rate of inflation.
Continue the lower excise duty on various commodities, as similar to FY 09-10, says the glass industry.
From output surge to lack of cold storage, not much attention has been given to the potato farmers. The export market, too, is bleak, due to unsuitable domestic varieties and an underdeveloped food processing value chain.
'If global growth continues to be sluggish, India instead could potentially take a bigger piece of a shrinking pie,' says Prachi Mishra, managing director, Global Macro Research, and India chief economist, Goldman Sachs.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation has started looking for options to park 3-5 per cent of its huge corpus of Rs 2.57 lakh crore (Rs 2.57 trillion) of retirement fund in stock markets to earn better returns.
Indirect tax reforms may help strengthen the Indian state and hence long-run growth.
China is the world's worst polluting nation with the highest overall annual emission of greenhouse gases.
When it comes to climate, change and promise may only be in the eyes of the beholder.
'Now is the time for India to course correct and for the government also to course correct,' says businessman Mangesh Khatri.
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