Punjab was the first state in the country that imposed curfew to stop the spread of coronavirus. But according to commentators, economic ramifications of the extension of the lockdown can be severe. At the national level, it is reckoned that a third of the country’s labour force including daily wa...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a recent meeting with the chief ministers asked them to be ready to woo companies that are quitting China due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Relevantly, American, Japanese, and South Korean companies are planning to leave China owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. But rehabilit...
In the Covid-19 episode, the Indian economy has been shrinking. This means, due to almost complete lockdown, only a portion of the economy has been under operation. Therefore, rate of growth of the economy is negative. Meanwhile several forecasts by various organisations put forward their estimate o...
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit India at a time when the Indian economy itself has been on a downward trajectory since 2018-19. According to an English daily, India’s growth fell from around 8% in Q4 FY to a new low of 4.5% in Q2 FY2020, on a quarterly basis. Media sources state that India suffered ...
“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.” Those words of the American 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, are in step with the current times darkened by the Covid-19. Developed countries, which wer...
The Covid-19 pandeic has adversely impacted the Indian economy. Shaunak Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Commerce St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata informed BE, “While less than 25% of India’s $2.8 trillion economy remains functional at the present, India is pegg...
Dear Readers,Bharat Economy: Lockdown starting from March 21 will end on May 17, if not extended further. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team are facing a Herculean task to protect lives from the COVID-19 outbreak. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its FY21 growth projection for In...
COVID-19 has thrown everyone’s routine out of whack. Organisations are running the risk of rapid decline in productivity as employees, especially women, are working double or even triple shifts at home. They are trying to manage their work schedules and home chores along with home-schooling and ch...
Concern for effective technical teachers’ training is increasing the world over. No country can afford to ignore the impact of technology. Indeed, the fast advances made in all technical and industrial fields in recent decades have determined the very contours of contemporary civilisation. T...
Soil pollution relates to chemical degradation of soil that includes acidification, declining fertility, changes in the pH level, salinisation, and chemical toxicity. For India, maximumsoil contamination occurs in agricultural land, wastelands, and in urban areas. Rural agricultural secto...