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Political parties need to ask themselves if they are morally on the right side when they entice voters with ‘welfare schemes’. The electorate needs to ask itself if it has no compunctions in falling for such promises.
Right now analysts give the BJP no more than eight seats and the BJP’s desire to hold rath yatras across the state is seen as a straightforward device to stir up communal feelings.
Tata Steel’s standalone steel sales in volume terms declined by 10 percent over a year ago and by 6.6 percent sequentially.
It is becoming increasingly clear that only large and established airlines can take advantage of the scheme
It is doubtful that the decision to give 10% reservation to EWS sections in the unreserved category will solve the inter-caste tension over the share in the government jobs and educational seats in the long run.
Two examples in the New Year suggest a stronger regime for intellectual property in the country
While US is fighting a costly war in Afghanistan, India is focusing on what it does good — capacity building, training and uplift of society.
Studies show that at least 95% of Indian households earn less than the government’s cut-off income of Rs 8 lakh
Looking at some of Nitin Gadkari's ideas would be a good place to start to fix railways' problems.
The government needs to shrink its role in the sugar sector.
Some political parties are calling the government’s decision to introduce 10% reservation to EWS a ‘jumla’. This criticism will fall flat if the Bill is passed in Parliament.
The final sectoral growth numbers may be very different from the first estimates
The norms also prohibit e-commerce platforms or their group companies from having equity ownership in firms that sell goods on their marketplace.
With allies leaving the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and opposition parties joining hands, winning the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be an uphill task for the BJP.
Often, policies with good intentions have costs and consequences not foreseen by policymakers
The rule for the US Fed now seems to be: don’t fight the markets
Without proper checks and balances such powers could be misused and have an adverse impact.
Gold prices have touched a six-month high on account of changing structural dynamics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to revamp KVIC and promote khadi did help the state-owned entity in getting business, but what really helped is the marketing of swadeshi by yoga-guru-turned-businessman Baba Ramdev.
Employment increased in both manufacturing and services while input prices remained soft
Devotees of the consumption story argued that there were no alternatives to most of the well-established players in the sector
The damage that foreign deep pockets have done in India is substantial and probably irreversible
The BJP’s Mission 123 is a plan aimed at winning as many seats as possible in the 123 Lok Sabha seats that the party could not win in 2014 despite the ‘Modi wave’.
If the government wants to stick to its fiscal deficit target it will have to slash expenditure
Outright privatisation will be the best option for state-owned banks, but the least the government should do is consider overhauling governance and management structures.
