The Interim Budget 2019 has been prepared keeping in view certain international and national developments. A cursory look at the events that have taken place at the international front showcase a fluctuation in the prices of crude oil from $65 per barrel in April 2018 to a high of $85 per barrel in ...
Henry Clay, an American politician, made use of the phrase “statistics are no substitute for judgment” to describe the use of data only to emphasise the fact without getting considerate about its relevance. However, this phrase is rightly applicable to the ongoing GDP estimation debate in India....
The cold months of November and December are usually associated with festivities, skiing competitions, ice sculptures, and carnival parades in Europe. However, this unusual winter is experiencing a slew of fiery protests in the continent. Demonstrators are on the streets, rallying against controvers...
United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer in a detailed 182 paged document on March 22 accused China of indulging into unfair trade practices which ranged from transfer of technology by entering into forced joint ventures, promoting undue licensing practices, encouraging heavily su...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves to be congratulated for taking a courageous and much needed step in the direction of scrapping the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and for putting in place the higher education regulator i.e. Higher Educat...