The SFF commandos are specially trained in reconnaissance, direct action, unconventional warfare and covert operations, and excel in guerrilla tactics and mountain warfare. High altitude operations especially come naturally to them
Even as demand and supply chains faced severe disruptions, there have been a spurt of collaborations between companies across geographies in terms of sourcing components and raw materials, sharing manufacturing capacities as well as distribution depots and delivery vans
Holistic pan-India developments in the audio entertainment and podcasting spheres democratises new-age services, acting as a bridge between rural and urban, haves and have-nots, and English and vernacular speakers
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Trump is running against anarchists who, he insists, secretly rule the Democratic Party and are laying waste to America’s cities
The problem is that measures like real output, real wages and poverty are calculated using inflation adjustments that don’t reflect the higher cost of living during a pandemic
A V-shaped recovery in global food prices is taking shape. Domestic food inflation is also giving it company
A strong banking system is a necessary condition for sustainable and broad-based economic recovery
Tolerance, both as a term and a concept, is a commodity that has made strong headway over the past few years in West Asia, a region more than often criticised for its social, political and cultural rigidness that also reflect in the laws of the land there
Companies of this size do not usually get a high discounting in the market
Numerous international and domestic institutions have estimated economic growth to contract in 2020-21. If there’s no respite from the pandemic in the near future, the adverse impact on the economy would persist, and the recovery would be uneven
Aatmanirbhar Bharat has found resonance in most of the sectors, except copper. The domestic copper industry lies like a prostrate, disembowel Gulliver, totally helpless
India’s AC market size at present is just six or seven million units, which is also not a patch on China’s market size of 90-100 million units
Goldman Sachs foresees a third wave which will create a rising tide that will lift all boats, particularly the more robust ones like TCS, Infosys and HCL Technologies
While India’s improvement in the innovation index is welcome, the controversy over World Bank’s EoDB ranking should make us cautious about such catch-all metrics
The consumption play is getting stronger as it becomes evident as the lights dim on the investment stage. What this means for the already expensive FMCG stocks
The services sector saw its fifth consecutive month of decline
It is not only selected stocks that are causing the market indices to look better, but also the changes that have been going on over the years in the index, whereby the non-performing ones are taken off the index
Sixty-three years ago, on September 4, an innocuous unstarred question raised during the Question Hour in Parliament led to the unravelling of the infamous Mundhra scam — India’s first big financial fraud
Life sentences without possibility of early release is favoured by those who oppose the death penalty — but that is not without its defects
Will COVID-19 leave long-term economic scars? Economic research says it will, but much of the West had a huge boom after the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed millions
Many experts still expect Democratic and Republican leaders to reach a deal on an aid package that includes support for small businesses, but a new, large-scale programme seems increasingly unlikely
How long can the government continue to prop up the economy?
The notion that a Democratic administration under a Joe Biden presidency, with Kamala Harris as Vice-President by his side, will mitigate immigration woes for the Indian white-collar diaspora is myopic at best
For India, Abe will remain a very special Japanese leader. His fondness for India and his vision for India-Japan ties have been central to his vision of the Indo-Pacific
