Police have begun enforcing the liquor ban across Kerala in the wake of the state high court ratifying the state government's new liquor policy.
Major carmakers in the country are loading barrels for the coming battle in the field, reports Arnab Dutta.
'Where is the spirit of Team India?' asks Chandrababu Naidu.
The Planning Commission on Thursday unveiled a Vision 2020 document envisaging 100 per cent literacy, no unemployment and poverty and quadrupling the per capita income of the country by 2020 saying.
China is the second largest spender on defence after the US. T
Indian aluminium producers are one of the lowest cost producers in the world, which is a significant advantage.
China's gross domestic product rank dropped to number 7 from number 6, while GDP per capita jumped one place to 110th rank from 111th rank, International Monetary Fund has said.\n\n\n\n
'Pakistan is paying the price for ignoring secularism. In seeking to be ever more Muslim to define its nationhood, it has become a terrorist haven.'
'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'
The demonetisation seems to have impacted the GVA in the third as well as fourth quarter of 2016-17 which slipped to 6.7 per cent and 5.6 per cent respectively, from 7.3 per cent and 8.7 per cent.
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
India should not miss the opportunity to develop high-speed railway.
With a middle class still so small and no apparent leaps in productivity on the farm or in manufacturing on the horizon, India faces its own age of diminished expectations.
India's per capita external debt at the end of March this year stood at Rs 4,556 and total external debt rose to $112.6 billion in June.
'No one seems to have looked at the extent of money that is being borrowed by individuals, and the rising levels of household debt.' 'At their present rates of growth, personal loans in India could well become the largest category of bank credit in just two or three years,' cautions T N Ninan.
What is required is boring leadership that ensures that the basics are right and not genius leadership that dreams of bullet trains, says Aakar Patel.
She would be the first Indian to be occupying the coveted post at IMF after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
China's major economic problem has been that its heartland is an agricultural region with about one-third of the arable land per person as the rest of the world.
'We are at $2.7 trillion and 2024 is not far away.' 'The country will need to grow by 9% every year for 5 years continuously and raise the aggregate investment rate to 38% of GDP to achieve the government's target of turning India into a $5 trillion economy.' 'Given the fact that we are only growing at about 5% and our investment rates are only about 30%, it may take a number of years before we can reach that targeted level.'
The noted economist said some of the bad loans are due to a slowdown in the economy and asset restructuring companies are part of the solution.
However, 63 per cent Indians were "satisfied" with their standard of living
'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.
Those who like to draw comfort from the fact that UP is the country's third-largest state in terms of the size of its economy should also note that its growth rate is one of the lowest, its per capita income is almost half of the national average and its poverty rate at 30 per cent places it at the twentieth rank among all the states, says A K Bhattacharya.
'A rag-tag coalition is more insecure and hence, more inclined to reform,' argues Devangshu Datta.
'China need not worry about a truly 'resurgent India'.' 'It's not going to happen.'
Housing sales fell by about 30 per cent last year in seven major cities due to costlier flats and higher interest rate, says property consultant CBRE.
India's curve, yet to flatten vis-a-vis countries with similar or more conservative plans to ease restrictions, still points to 'exponential growth', despite India having tested much fewer people.
India has a long way to go to catch up with Thailand let alone the US.
'How do we ensure that the unlocking, which is desperately needed for earning income and livelihood, will not create ugly spikes in the infection rates?' 'And if it does, what then?'asks Omkar Goswami.
Falling incomes and longer winter to translate into lower demand for at least some months.
Amid demands for special category status by Bihar, the Centre on Wednesday set up an expert committee to evolve a composite index to measure backwardness of states.
Experts said a dip in consumption expenditure indicated an increasing prevalence of poverty in the country.
'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.
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.
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