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Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is well entrenched but he faces distinct disadvantages heading into the elections. There is growing fatigue over his continuance, rampant factionalism in the party, and the Congress is trying to use allegations of corruption like in Karnataka to turn public mood against the BJP
That’s why Dr. Sultan Al Jaber is the right person to preside over the upcoming UN climate summit
The IMF has flagged a deterioration of Asian economies’ interest cover ratios and India is among them. What listed company data shows on this front
The bigger question now is what the return of Erdogan will mean as Türkiye’s geostrategic position makes it an important power player. Erdogan's aggressive foreign policy had raised Türkiye’s profile abroad but also led to sharp differences with NATO and Western allies.
The growth-inflation dynamics currently does not point to growth slowing down, therefore the room for a rate cut is very limited. Also, the flows into fixed income are likely to slowdown in the months ahead. Due to these factors, the yield in the medium term will go up
The clean energy source is generating buzz as an alternative to fossil fuels. The FT calculates that delivering it requires $20tn of investment by 2050
The International Energy Agency expects $1.7 trillion to be spent on clean energy this year, with expenditure on solar power exceeding that on upstream oil and gas for the first time. But the best projects will be erected close to the places where their power will be consumed
Republicans have reached the point where, if they want to succeed in a multiracial, democratic 21st century, they will have to take a leap, just as Democrats did in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, they have opted to undermine democracy rather than change to meet its demands.
For a long spell of 18 months that ended last year, WPI inflation was in double digits but that did not show up as a surge in consumer prices. It is possible that producers absorbed the rise in costs by taking a hit in their margins. And now that WPI inflation is nose-diving, we may not see the expected pass-through to consumer prices as producers may be taking it as an opportunity to recoup the lost profits of the previous years
Until the US can figure out a way to build the things it needs the government to build, and at a reasonable price, why not simply allow the private sector to build more housing? Whatever its problems, the US doesn't lack developers, contractors and entrepreneurs willing to finance home construction, when allowed to do so.
The military is cracking down on Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and instigating desertions from its cadre. But the army is also fighting with its back to the wall after its reputation has been besmirched by accusations and mob attacks on its installations. The question is whether the army will organize a coup and seize power
The Tamil connect puts the DMK on the back foot
Healthy competition among co-operatives must be encouraged, as long as the farmer’s interest is protected
Despite Gamma being a seemingly small number, it has a significant impact on how sensitive the option is to the underlying
China over the last decade-and-a-half is manifestly trying to redefine the global power hierarchy and set out an order with the rules and arrangements that ensure its centrality
The Opposition’s churlish boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building is on very weak ground. What should have been a great moment for India’s democracy and history in the making has been sullied
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The US economy is now closer than it ever has been to realising one of the more radical visions in the finance industry
The government designated bullion dealers as ‘Reporting Entities’ to bring them under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, mandating them to adhere to anti-money laundering (AML) standards, and combating proliferation financing obligations
Artificial intelligence promises greater gains than any technology before it, but it threatens to worsen pay and wealth inequality
The Jalandhar bypolls reaffirmed that the AAP is firmly entrenched in Punjab with Congress as the primary opposition. A desperate Akali Dal, in free fall since 2015, is rebuilding bridges with a Congressised BJP, a forced political alignment that is easily evident to voters
Nine years of the Modi government can be considered to be excellent years for the economy and people of India. Despite the worst pandemic of the century, in these nine years, India’s international standing has also improved significantly, not only in terms of ranking in GDP but also in terms of cooperation with other countries, both rich and poor
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Can PM Modi help clinch deal with Australia, steel output is losing its glint, sooner AFSPA in Assam is lifted the better, more unbearably hot conditions likely ahead, and more
Assam CM Himanta’s promise to lift the draconian AFSPA law, which gives legal immunity to armed forces and left a trail of bloodshed and injustice in its wake, heralds a new dawn for the Northeast’s biggest state. Improvements in Assam’s security situation led to this. Divisive political rhetoric mustn’t create new faultlines for re-emergence of violence
Traditional banking, the play of forbearance, funding and cash flow characteristics, all combine to make Indian banks less vulnerable than their US counterparts
