Edits & Columns
Bringing India and Latin America closer in terms of trade and investment
Over the last decade, India’s trade with LAC has grown three-fold—to reach $39 billion in 2018, with India’s exports to LAC amounting to $13 billion and imports reaching $26 billion.
Explained: How Vikatan became a contextual content company driven by technology
Vikatan has been ranked number one Tamil weekly by the Indian Readership Survey (IRS). Its TV shows reach 12 million homes.
Flood fury: Climate change denial won’t help
As per a 2017 study, India had the second-largest number of deaths linked to extreme weather events—floods, heatwaves, etc.
Use trusts/pools for agriculture, insurance for health
Indeed, the model needs to be flipped; farm insurance should be based on a trust model or risk-pools, while Ayushman Bharat should be based on pure insurance instead of the trust model that several st
BCCI finally submits to NADA dope-testing for cricketers
As per the World Anti Doping Agency’s (WADA) norms, all athletes competing in a country are to be tested by that country’s anti-doping agency.
Giving legal rights to water bodies a great leap forward
Without contesting pollution in Ganga and Yamuna, one should be sceptical of lists and rankings, both because of data problems (there are good data only for OECD) and because of the way numbers are us
US, China trade war intensifies as Donald Trump announces new tariffs
The Chinese authorities then allowed their currency, the renminbi, to fall below the symbolic threshold of CN¥7 per US dollar.
Growth prescriptions: RBI initiatives can reverse slowdown in growth
The central bank's current monetary policy, having evolved from focusing solely on controlling inflation and emphasising independence, is aimed at supporting economic growth
Product advisory Committee will deepen benefits of derivative markets
At the micro-level, PAC can observe heterogeneity in participation between physical and derivative market actors, helping exchanges and regulators take measures to bring parity in trade and maintain a
Financing budget expenditure through RBI surplus is novel financial engineering
The currency revaluation reserve has been more volatile—Rs 5.3-6.9 lakh crore in the last five years, with the lower end being reached in 2017 and a low of Rs 1.2 lakh crore in 2010.
ISRO’s success is Vikram Sarabhai’s lasting legacy
Isro keeps pushing the envelope on many fronts, and the list of feats that force the world to take note is growing longer.
In its current form, Congress has little chance of revival
To compel the party to change fundamentally, he insisted that the party look for its chief from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.
India must recycle or reuse water and adopt conservation methods now
WRI notes that, from 1990 to 2014, groundwater tables in some north Indian aquifers have been declining at a rate of 8 cm per year.
Solar pump scheme needs serious relook
Renewable energy is clean energy, but it doesn’t always lead to green solutions. For clean energy to become green, solutions must be comprehensively designed
National Education Policy needs more extensive reforms to succeed
Holding the 10+2 structure and board exams responsible for the stress on students and the coaching culture, the dNEP proposes a minimum of 24 board exams over four years from grade 9 to 12.
Monetary policy: More questions than answers
The Reserve Bank of India remains unduly optimistic in its growth outlook, despite the glacial pace of inadequate revisions to its growth forecast in recent meetings
Article 370 repeal doesn’t enjoy protections accorded to constitutional amendments
A 1970 Presidential Proclamation sought to annul Privy Purses—a grant to the princes guaranteed under the Constitution, by de-recognising the rulers.
India’s milk output more than doubled from 79.66 mt in 2000 to 176.27 mt
We have similar “experts” who tell us how India’s milk production isn’t growing enough to keep pace with its rising demand.
A final solution to arbitration in India
The 2019 amendment Act is intended to fix the loopholes created by the Arbitration and Conciliation Amendment Act, 2015, and is a step towards the government’s objective of making India an arbitrati
Explained: How geographical indication can boost agriculture exports
An increased thrust on agricultural exports is well documented in the Agriculture Export Policy 2018, and is also visible through alterations in the tariffs and non-tariffs measures.
Telecom networks: The changing face of conflict
China established the Strategic Support Force to operationalise this evolving doctrine and is thus honing a futuristic, deadly war machine with information warfare at its core, making even the mighty
Angel Tax: Its time this colonial hangover gets removed
The “Angel Tax”, or Section 56(2)(vii b), is a 2012 insertion by the then UPA government which taxes domestic capital invested into private Indian entities as income, if the investment was made ab
Reduce cost, risk of doing business to achieve $5 trillion GDP target
ASEAN countries have been the biggest beneficiary of this structural shift in global supply chains—between 2017 and 2018, the total FDI into ASEAN has more than doubled to $180 billion, and so did t
Indian Air Force’s new game is an innovative way to attract new talent
Now, IAF has come out with an innovative approach for attracting talent, with its newly launched flight simulator mobile game “IAF- A cut above the rest.”
Delhi does well to move on digital training of teachers
The new digital training universe will include mathematics training for teachers teaching grades IV & V, and curriculum-specific modules across subjects at the senior secondary level.
Don’t look for silver bullets, all-round reform is needed
While repo rates may be the same now as they were in 2010, he argued, given consumer inflation is dramatically lower today—3-3.5% this year versus over 13% then—the real repo was minus 8.1% in 201
Make-in-India: Need a brand-new policy to curb imports
IAMAI reports that India exported just 18mn handsets in FY19 for $1.4bn or around a seventh of the target; for some reason, India’s export data shows a number of $2.7bn but that could include some c
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