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The ongoing unrest in Bangladesh is having a significant impact on businesses across India, affecting a wide range of sectors. From onion exporters to large corporations, many are experiencing substantial losses, including in the stock…
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The swearing-in of Nara Chandrababu Naidu as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister was a significant event for Naidu personally, and to his party and for Indian politics, too. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top BJP leaders witnessed the…
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If one were to describe Aparna Sen and her work, there is just one Bengali phrase that comes to mind: Bhalo Kharab Meye (Thegood bad girl). This is the title of a 1993 play, for which Sen won the Best Actor award from Kalakar Awards. So,…
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PANDEMIC HAS EXPOSED CAPITALISM’S STRUCTURAL FAULTS The lockdown has completed a week and has two more weeks to go. By that time one hopes the lakshman rekha will be wiped off by Modi, who gloomily declared the lockdown and before on 19…
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POVERTY MAY RISE, WAGES TO BE CUT India, like the world, faces a deep crisis as shipping charges reach critical highs and lows amid less known impact of corona and government revenues slump. It may impact trading and governance costs. The…
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TIME FOR COMPANIES TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN While most economists and analysts are exasperated over the third quarter GDP growth, the authority considered the growth a significant as it bottomed out the downswing. The Economic…
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INDIAN EXPORTS SUFFERING EVEN IN SOUTH ASIAN SUBREGION In spite of great potential of Indian exports, the country’s performance has remained weak. India’s exports even in South Asia, where the Indian economy is relatively advanced and…
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REAL ESTATE 200 P.C. OVERVALUED India now the fifth largest economy and is aiming to become the third is growing at 5 percent in 2019-20, says the Economic Survey. The RBI has estimated it at 4.8 percent and IMF and other international…
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YOUTH MORE WORRIED ABOUT EXTRA BURDEN THAN SECULARISM No other cause in recent times has evoked such spontaneous participation by the public as the campaign against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The previous occasion when this happened…
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RHETORIC TO SHIFT FROM ‘BANGLADESHI ALIENS’ TO PRESERVING CULTURE Has regionalism run its limit in Assam? Four explosions on Republic day 2020 after a prolonged spell of relative peace and stability certainly breathed new life into the…
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PEOPLE ON THE STREETS ARE FIGHTING FOR CONSTITUTION It is often said that lawyers’ language and doctors’ handwriting are hard to understand. The legalese of lawyers accompanied with legal jargon often sounds alien and too technical for…
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CONTROVERSIAL BUT IMPERATIVE, BUDGET SESSION MAY SEE A BILL Will there be a move to contain India’s population explosion? After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort that “keeping one’s family small is an…
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MAMATA HAS A TOUGH TASK TO RETAIN HER HOLD AMONG HINDUS West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, has hit the streets again in her usual style of aggressive politics — which she often practiced during…
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Take any project from the Mars Orbiter Mission to the simultaneous launch of 104 Satellites, the contribution of Indian women scientists in their success is being hailed and celebrated not only by India but also across the globe. Scientists…
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The 7th National Voters’ Day will be observed on Wednesday, January 25. It was instituted in 2011 in remembrance of the foundation day of the Election Commission of India. It was on January 25, 1950 on the eve of the first Republic Day that…
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Since the early ages, the transfer of skills has been happening through the tradition of apprentices. A young apprentice would work under the tutelage of a master craftsman to learn the craft, while the master craftsman would get an…
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With more than 24 crore ration cards digitized and about 56% of these cards being seeded with Aadhaar numbers of the beneficiaries getting highly subsidized food grains under National Food Security…
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The 'Jal Marg Vikas' (National Waterway-1) project, which envisages developing a fairway between 1,620 km Allahabad and Haldia stretch, has taken off with a $3.5 million funding from the World Bank. "The Jal Marg Vikas Project…
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Unless there is a fundamental shift in the mindset away from one which separates the rural from the urban, Indian planning cannot address the challenges of urbanisation in our present stage of development This column typically…
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Abstract:Corporates are fighting with strategies to penetrate big rural markets in India. Indian Rural markets are potential and upcoming market for most of the products and services because of its vast size and demand base. Rural…
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By C I Issac Article 25 of the Indian Constitution guarantees its citizen the right to practice and propagate their religion. It doesn’t mean total destruction of the other man’s religion or nonhierarchical unorganized religions. This…
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