2023 might well be the year that the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis hit home in India. Just this week, devastating landslides and rampaging rivers killed 70 people in Himachal Pradesh with another 13 people dead or missing in Uttarakhand. The downpour washed away vehicles and subsumed buildings into flood waters, smashing key road […]
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Aug
Aug
Senior military commanders of India and China met after a gap of almost four months to address the protracted standoff on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) this week but had little to show for the talks that spanned two days. The joint statement issued at the conclusion of the meeting of the corps commanders […]
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Aug
Aug
A vegetable price shock has sent India’s benchmark inflation rate to a 15-month high of 7.4% in July. The jump in headline inflation came despite a moderation in core inflation, which measures the non-food non-fuel part of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket. What does one make of the latest numbers? Three key takeaways; short-, […]
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Aug
Aug
India’s journey has been remarkable. But its future will depend on its ability to innovate, create opportunities and safeguard diversity
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Aug
Aug
Most analysts expect India’s benchmark inflation measure, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to breach the 6% threshold in July. A Reuters poll of economists has put this number at 6.4%. What is remarkable, however, is the fact that this spike in inflation – the June print was just 4.8%— is a result […]
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Aug
Aug
In every country, including India, the Capital is among the most sensitive of installations, protected by layers upon layers of security. Hence, if the fringes of a Capital get singed by communal clashes a month before it is hosting 20 heads of State, hard questions need to be asked of the Haryana administration, which appeared […]
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Jul
Jul
Gig workers are vulnerable in the absence of a safety net. Rajasthan may show the way ahead
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Jul
2014 heralded the return of the unipolar era in national politics. Coalitions were seen as the remnant of a bygone age of messy multi-party consensus drafting and fractured mandates. Yet, the events of this week have proven that the obituaries of alliance politics may have been hasty. With 26 Opposition parties coming together as INDIA, […]
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Jul
Jul
In a blaze of golden light and white smoke clouds, India’s third mooncraft blasted off from Sriharikota on Friday, attempting to etch a successful third chapter in a journey that first began in 2003. That year, then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort that India had decided to […]
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Jul
Jul
India needs its own semiconductor ecosystem. If this was not evident before the Covid-19 pandemic, it is now — with the pandemic wreaking havoc on the microchip supply chain, setting off a cascading series of crises, big and small, across industries. PREMIUM Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this […]