Clipped from: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/finmin-nod-for-74-fdi-in-defence-sector-under-automatic-route/article33288079.ece Aero India 2019 at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru (file photo) – Sampath Kumar GP Aero India 2019 at Yelahanka Air Force
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After initial hit, health-care units likely to recover: CRISIL SME Tracker | Business Standard News
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/after-initial-hit-health-care-units-likely-to-recover-crisil-sme-tracker-120120701120_1.html With the working capital cycle stretched, financially weaker hospitals may have to resort to short-term loans to stay afloat. Logically, a pandemic should
Markets crowded, but malls empty | Business Standard Column
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/markets-crowded-but-malls-empty-120120801392_1.html From Ranganathan Street in T Nagar, Chennai, to Dadar market in Mumbai, there was frenzied shopping during Diwali. But malls have not had
Five million potential workers may have left the labour force entirely | Business Standard Column
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/disheartened-job-seekers-120120701115_1.html It appears that the recovery phase of employment is over and a decline is setting in again Employment declined in India in November
Farm Laws: Centre must not yield to ‘mandatory MSP’ demand & refrain from imposing levies on non-APMC sales – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/farm-laws-centre-must-not-yield-to-mandatory-msp-demand-refrain-from-imposing-levies-on-non-apmc-sales/2146035/ Mandatory MSP and Levies on non-APMC markets will be an assault on the reforms the Union government has ushered in with the new
Farmers Agitation: Questions all parties must answer on Punjab & MSP – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/farmers-agitation-questions-all-parties-must-answer-on-punjab-msp/2146023/ Do the new farm laws really mean ending MSP, how do you fund extending this in a genuine manner to all crops? An
Centre aims to increase MSME sector contribution to GDP up to 50%: Gadkari – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/centre-aims-to-increase-msme-sector-contribution-to-gdp-up-to-50-gadkari/2145902/ Gadkari said currently village industries such as handlooms, handicrafts, Khadi Gram Udyog are generating Rs 80 thousand crore revenues which needs to be
Watch out! India’s social commerce growth may soon outrun e-commerce rise; expand 2X in 10 years – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/watch-out-indias-social-commerce-growth-may-soon-outrun-e-commerce-rise-expand-2x-in-10-years/2146289/ The segment currently dotted with startups such as Facebook-backed Meesho, DealShare, Simsim, Atmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge winner Mall91, and more, is worth
Blanket interest waiver on all loans to be Rs 6 lakh crore: Centre to SC – The Economic Times
Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/blanket-interest-waiver-on-all-loans-to-be-rs-6-lakh-crore-centre-to-sc/articleshow/79628798.cmsSynopsis If the banks were to bear this burden, then it would necessarily wipe out a substantial and a major part of their net
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on making India a manufacturing hub – The Economic Times
Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/niti-aayog-ceo-amitabh-kant-on-making-india-a-manufacturing-hub/articleshow/79622218.cmsSynopsis Speaking at a webinar series on the Road to Atmanirbhar Bharat, Kant said while the Centre has done a lot of reforms, the
First roll out promised pro-farmer measures, then implement the farm laws – The Economic Times
Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/view-first-roll-out-promised-pro-farmer-measures-then-implement-the-farm-laws/articleshow/79630219.cmsSynopsis The sensible thing to do would be to hold the laws in abeyance for a year, while accepting one crucial amendment: to move
Agriculture must emulate the dairy model – The Hindu BusinessLine
Clipped from: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/agriculture-must-emulate-the-dairy-model/article33272113.ece?homepage=true Global leader The dairy sector’s success has made the world sit up and take notice – KK Mustafah Global leader The dairy sector’s
Easing farmers’ fears – The Hindu BusinessLine
Clipped from: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/easing-farmers-fears/article33272270.ece?homepage=true Flexibility in implementing the farm laws will help Farmer protests against the farm laws have gathered steam. Talks with the government have been
Despite rising support for today’s Bharat bandh, limited impact seen – The Hindu BusinessLine
Clipped from: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/despite-rising-support-for-todays-bharat-bandh-limited-impact-seen/article33273214.ece?homepage=true Farmers lined up against the Centre’s new farm laws, in New Delhi, on Monday – Shahbaz Khan Farmers lined up against the Centre’s
Farmers’ agitation: Perils of a non-consultative government | Business Standard Column
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/farmers-agitation-perils-of-a-non-consultative-government-120120700087_1.html If the Modi government, made arrogant by its huge legislative majority, does not rethink its peremptory way of functioning, it will face more
For the Union govt the best farm policy would be to let states deal with it | Business Standard Column
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/for-the-union-govt-the-best-farm-policy-would-be-to-let-states-deal-with-it-120120700112_1.html If states insist on costly policies, let them pay for their follies If agriculture is a state subject, why do we need such
Disheartened job seekers | Business Standard Column
Clipped from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/disheartened-job-seekers-120120701115_1.html The recovery in employment, from the steep fall during the April lockdown was smart initially but, it slowed down well before the recovery
NPA fear: Hotels, restaurants seek relief on lines of MSME loan restructuring ahead of possible lockdown – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/msme-fin-npa-fear-hotels-restaurants-seek-relief-on-lines-of-msme-loan-restructuring-ahead-of-possible-lockdown/2144989/ Credit and Finance for MSMEs: The industry body FHRAI noted that the absence of a favourable policy would lead to the shutdown of
Mandatory Minimum Support Price (MSP): Watering a dangerous idea – The Financial Express
Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/mandatory-minimum-support-price-msp-watering-a-dangerous-idea/2145202/ If MSP gets mandated, we are staring at disappearing export markets, a disrupted domestic supply chain, unmanageable surpluses and an unaffordable subsidy burden
Another step forward for the debt market–the economic times
Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-editorials/another-step-forward-for-the-debt-market/ET Edit Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. In yet another welcome step to complete the