Category: News of interest

Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/only-a-few-pli-sectors-might-succeed-most-of-them-risk-failure-swaminathan-aiyar-explains-why/articleshow/80905360.cmsSynopsis Why should the government pick winners instead of letting market competition decide that? In the 1990s, nobody thought that software, autos, and pharma

Clipped from: https://maharashtratimes.com/editorial/article/makarand-joshi-article-on-freedom-fighter-kumud-gupte-nachane/articleshow/80910208.cms ​​महात्मा गांधीजींनी १९४२ साली ब्रिटिशांना ‘चले जाओ’ म्हणून ठणकावले आणि देशभरात स्वातंत्र्य आंदोलनाची आग भडकली. ठाण्यासारख्या शहरात जिथे आधीपासूनच स्वातंत्र्य चळवळीला पूरक आणि

Clipped from: https://www.deccanherald.com/science-and-environment/coronavirus-may-never-go-away-but-could-change-to-a-mild-annoyance-951202.html If humans must learn to live with Covid-19, the nature of that coexistence depends not just on how long immunity lasts, but also

Clipped from: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/second-edit/india-us-drifting-apart-950593.htmlModi biden Statements issued by India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the White House on the recent conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Clipped from: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/columnists/130221/sanjeev-ahluwalia-a-bottom-up-view-of-the-annual-budget.html For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the

Clipped from: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/snapchat-crosses-60-million-users-in-india-clocks-150-percent-growth-in-daily-active-users/story/431256.html Globally, Snapchat had 265 million daily active users in the December 2020 quarter. Over five billion ‘snaps’ were created daily on average by

Clipped from: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-senate-votes-to-acquit-donald-trump-as-republicans-save-him-in-impeachment-again/article33833084.ece?homepage=true In the vote, seven of the 50 Senate Republicans joined the chamber’s unified Democrats in favouring conviction. Donald Trump on Saturday was acquitted

Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/india-crypto-ban-contours-of-india-cryptocurrency-bill-may-trigger-legal-tussle/articleshow/80867778.cms Synopsis–The focus will particularly be on defining cryptocurrencies as ‘private’ and ‘public’ as the government is looking to allow public ones, such as

Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/debt-knell-with-retail-debt-past-rs-40-lakh-crore-worries-about-defaults-on-repayments-rise/articleshow/80899170.cms Synopsis–Retail debt in India — at over Rs 40 lakh crore — has never been so alarmingly high, and lenders have a lot

Clipped from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/how-modi-made-it-ministry-burn-the-midnight-oil-to-ban-chinese-apps/articleshow/80892106.cmsSynopsis As the blinds were pulled across the windows in IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s office to ensure the flurry of activity was not

Clipped from: https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/amazon-integrates-pantry-within-fresh-to-create-a-single-online-grocery-store/2193703/ Rival Grofers claims to have acquired 18 lakh new customers during the lockdown and managed to retain more than 70% of those who