The Indian automotive industry has entered into 2022 with a lot of hopes and positive mindset - leaving behind the agony of the last two years. Backed by a buoyant demand in the passenger vehicle segment despite continuing rises in commodity prices, automobile makers are upbeat to embrace new techno...
Will 2021 be the turning point for tackling climate change? Many think it could be. World leaders gathered in Glasgow last October-November for the successor to the landmark Paris meeting of 2015. Paris was important because it was the first time when virtually all the nations of the world came...
It’s festival time now and India is busy celebrating two of its biggest festivals - Durga puja/Dussehra and Diwali. Like last year, this year too Durga puja was not about hopping pandals and meeting friends and families to exchange greetings. It was partly virtual and about being there and celebra...
“Big things have small beginnings.” If this famous quote of T E Lawrence referred to the impact of a small Bedouin army on the war against the Turks in Lawrence of Arabia, it is equally true in today’s busy and competitive environment. Admittedly, a small business unit rarely turns out to be a...
A number of recent reports on the Indian economy have painted contradictory pictures of India’s future growth prospects. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its GDP growth forecast for India to 9.5% for the current fiscal from as high as 12.5% projected earlier - following the disastrous...
With growth comes transformation, both economic and social. The growing urbanisation and widespread access to information generate new aspirations across all sections of society and when they are not met, they create a sense of antagonism among the disadvantaged. In this highly disruptive phas...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shattered economies and damaged wealth creation across the globe. The devastation was so brutal that practically no sector was spared, given the kind of dramatic reduction in consumer confidence and spending. India witnessed a 7.3% decline in gross domestic prod...
India’s gross domestic product for 2020-21 has declined to 7.3% -- lower than the figure most agencies had predicted earlier. The recovery that began in the October-December quarter gained momentum in the subsequent three months. In the January-March 2021 quarter, GDP grew by 1.6% over and a...
India reported over 4 lakh daily coronavirus infections for four days between May 6 and May 9. It reported 4,03,738 fresh Covid-19 cases on May 9 - taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 2,22,96,414. As many as 4,092 patients died due to complications linked to coronavirus...
Just when the dreadful memory of 2020 was weakening with the new cases easing out and the vaccination drive picking pace, the second wave of Covid-19 came roaring back with a vengeance. India is now adding more than three lakh new cases every day and the fear of last year’s disaster is reign...
