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...
April 2021 has begun with sharp contrasts; on the one hand India has displayed its remarkable vaccination capacity notching nearly four million inoculations in a day, on the other it recorded the highest daily infection count globally. The fatality rate is also uncomfortably high. W...
What does the extreme free-market economist Milton Friedman, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and India’s latest Nobel Laureate in economics Abhijeet Banerjee, known for his experimental approach to alleviating poverty, have in common? The answer is: At some point, they've all advocated...
"If you make lots of money you must give it back to society as you have received so much love from it," said JRD Tata to Sudha Murty, when she was young. JRD words became the source of inspiration for Infosys Foundation, of which she is thd chairperson, and runs in Karnataka, Andhra...
The real estate sector in India is one of the fast-moving sectors of the economy – it is the second-highest employment generator in the country after agriculture. The sector is deeply interlinked to a huge number of allied industries. The sector is estimated to account for about 6-7% of the ...
India has hailed the 2021-22 Budget. The stock market greeted it with more than 3,000 points rise in benchmark BSE Sensex in two post-budget trading sessions – something Indian bourses did not witness in years. The industry seems optimistic about the proposed big hikes in capital expenditure...
The Covid-19 vaccine has finally arrived. Some 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their citizens, barely a year after the first alert was issued by China signalled the start of the epidemic. Britain led the way in the Western world, authorising the vaccine made...
When domestic industries are shying away from new investment in the post-lockdown period, foreign investors are queuing up to invest in India. This gives India some solace amidst decelerating GDP, rising unemployment rate, increasing retail inflation rate, and falling consumption expenditure.&...
India ranks 131 out of 189 countries on the 2020 Human Development Index (HDI) — down by two slots from the 129th position in the previous count — according to the Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) last month. HDI is a summary m...
The Covid-19 vaccine has finally arrived. And the world is about to see how effective it is. The UK has already given Pfizer and its partner BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine a green light and the first doses were given on December 8. A critical meeting among Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisers ...
