By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 23, 2022: One of the issues that has been haunting the minds of every Indian is ‘black money’. In layman’s language, it is money that has been acquired through illegitimate means or money which is unaccounted for, that is, for which tax is notContinue Reading
After dipping into his savings to weather India’s snap pandemic lockdown last March, Manoj Kumar was just getting his head above water again earning 600 rupees ($8) a day as a construction worker in the tourist hotspot of Goa. He’d squirreled away enough for a trip last month to hisContinue Reading
By Aakar Patel New Delhi: India’s economy contracted for another three months we were told last week. Meaning that as a nation we produced less in goods and services than we did in the same period last year. It also means that millions of Indian families now stare at poverty.Continue Reading
Kamthana: On a recent muggy afternoon in southern India, Earappa Bawge hacked at the ground with a pickax, his white shirt pasted to his back. Each dull thud reminded him of how far his hopes had fallen. Just months ago, the 27-year-old engineer was poring over project files in anContinue Reading
By Vidhi Doshi New Delhi — The sweets usually fly off the shelves during the Hindu festival of Diwali, but this year, only a handful of people stopped by. Idle employees waited around to take orders while the neatly piled towers of shimmering confections waited for customers. Famed in Delhi’sContinue Reading
By ADAM ROBERTS Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has strong views on economics. Speaking to a big crowd of tycoons, investors and journalists in New Delhi, Mr. Modi once admitted that he is “not a big economist.” Yet he promptly set out an economic vision for India to beContinue Reading
By Dana Kornberg India recently tried to reduce the use of cash in its economy by eliminating, overnight, two of its most widely used bills in what was called demonetization. While the effort – initially explained as an attempt to curb “black money” – has been a failure in manyContinue Reading
S.R.Praveen Beef, peacock and a heartless Major Gogoi were mere diversions from some really damaging news for the Sanghi Government in the past few weeks. These are some of the things they diverted your attention away from ******************* 1. Major slow down in Indian economy thanks to the dicktator’s hare-brainedContinue Reading
India’s economy has reportedly overtaken the United Kingdom’s for the first time in over 100 years, now standing as the world’s sixth largest economy by GDP after the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and France. The milestone is a symbol of India’s rapid economic growth and, conversely, the U.K.’s post-BrexitContinue Reading
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