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States with high revenue spending and low capital spending will have slower revenue growth and will see much higher interest outgo.

State of spending

While the impact of revenue spending on economic activity lasts for just a year, the impact of capital outlay is…

An IPO can entail a fresh issue of shares by a company or an offer for sale of shares held by the existing shareholders of the company or a combination of the same.

Ensuring confidentiality Premium Story

The pre-filing proposal brings SEBI’s IPO norms in line with the regulation in the US, the UK, etc

It would be pertinent to note that even losses from speculative share trading are allowed to be set off against speculative income; hence, there may be a case for treating VDAs on a similar footing.

A brake on India’s crypto-industry

While the government’s objective was to bring clarity and streamline the taxation of virtual digital asset (VDA) transactions in India,…

A growing reserve of frustrated, unemployed youth threatens to turn India’s demographic dividend of having a young population into a curse.

Jobless growth

Improving skills are imperative for youth to get employed

macOS update

Apple wants a slice of many pies Premium Story

Not just big tech, many start-ups too should fear competition from Apple’s new offerings

The above arguments provide the logical underpinnings for the ongoing protests and in no way justify violence or damage to public property.

Treading on fire

Agnipath protests show unless good-quality job creation in the private sector is encouraged, reforms in public-sector recruitment practices won’t find…

The deficit of trained healthcare personnel drastically limits access to interventions that can prevent neonatal death due to complications.

Just the beginning

India has done well on infant mortality rate, but there is a long road ahead