Prabir Dey’s day starts in the morning and often ends at mid-night. He can’t afford leisure but he values his job as a courier boy for a food delivery start-up. He is one among millions of young Indians who, armed with their smart-phones and motor cycles, deliver nearly anything and everything t...
If the present is not beautiful, the future will be – is how Nirmala Sitharaman has prefaced her maiden Budget. She has talked of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 – something PM Modi often advocated in the past. She spoke of taking electricity to every house in the country. Above all, she pled...
Will the falling automobile sales trigger an economic recession? First the US and now the European Union (EU) are facing the same problem. Automobile sales across the world are declining.Nearly every major automaker in the US reported weak sales for the first quarter of 2019. Rising vehicle prices a...
Modi may have won the 2019 general election bypassing the economic issues at large but now, arresting an economic slowdown and nursing back the country’s financial sector are among the crucial challenges before the nation.Indian economy has slowed down to its lowest in five years in the last fisca...
When Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath and a founding father of the United States of America said that “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest”, he had referred to its uses and not to its mere accumulation. Franklin said it more than two centuries ago and his concept of the use...
When one thinks of Indian agriculture two images invariably come to mind; that of a bare-footed farmer ploughing on a dry field and of FCI warehouses overflowing with food grains. This dichotomy of deprivation amidst abundance portrays the true picture of Indian agriculture. Agricultural production ...
Climate change's adverse impact on earth has become a household subject. Countries across the world are facing the fury of these changes in some form or other – be it drought or storm, be it spread of diseases caused by extreme weather condition or loss of farm yield.What is climate change?Climate...
“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you." This was how William Ewart Gladstone, the four-times prime minister of the United Kingdom, described Indian tea, which came to the British market in the early 1800s.The observati...
China has become India’s largest trading partner. Bilateral trade between them has exceeded India’s trade with the US, which was India’s biggest trade partner till recently. However, trading ties have been severely skewed in favour of China with imports outstripping exports by a huge amount.Th...
India’s services sector’s activity accelerated last February providing some relief to policymakers. It boosted hopes of GDP growth in the quarter ending March 2019. This was after the economy lost momentum in the third quarter of the current year when it grew by 6.6%, the lowest in five quarters...
