Trade with Pakistan can help achieve 2047 goal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants India to become an advanced nation by 2047, exactly a hundred years after Independence.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants India to become an advanced nation by 2047, exactly a hundred years after Independence.
The Indian middle class has witnessed a financial revolution in recent years. Encouraged by a booming stock market, low-cost digital platforms, and aggressive financial influencers, millions of households have moved their savings from traditional bank deposits to equities.
The recent back-and-forth on tariffs imposed by the US on Canadian and Mexican goods underscores the unpredictability of President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
Capitalism, the ‘saviour of the free world,’ was touted as an economic paradigm that incentivised effort, encouraged barter and most crucially, brought power back into the deserving hands of the masses of regular, hard-working people.
The ongoing dilemma surrounding Nato’s expanding portfolio of tasks has intensified under the Trump 2.0 administration which increasingly exposes an inner tension regarding the financial burdens associated with the alliance.
Disasters like earthquakes, famines, floods etc., are not the time to pursue political one-upmanship, but that is often the case. The recent Kahramanmaras earthquake in the Turkey-Syria region is believed to have killed over 30,000 and rendered half a million roofless. Aid for Turkey was forthcoming, with at least 105 countries and 16 international organisations pledging support. However, the fate of the already beleaguered Syrians living next door in war-torn times is more precarious, with concerns about the Syrian regime playing on the minds of many donor nations
With China, India adopted a deterrence-by-denial strategy. There were no strike elements deployed against our northern adversary. Indian thinkers believed that China could be contained by diplomacy and economic integration. Imports from China continued to rise, with it having a favourable balance of payments.
What emerges is the willingness to look at the wetlands as a piece of readily available real estate rather than a complex but crucial ecosystem whose ecological patterns are perfect to contribute to a city‘s longevity and better protect it from climate hazards, along with possibilities for profitable replication in multiple instances. If one is willing to walk the talk around innovation and pragmatism, there are creative methods of empowering the community without damaging the wetlands themselves
Some recent incidents of disturbing nature have brought to the fore the question whether ethics, morality, tolerance and sanity at all matter in the pursuit of objectives in love relationships. Cases of unnerving nature involving “love” are being reported from many parts of the globe on a regular basis and pleasant romantic tales are getting replaced by sordid passion sagas with motives of greed, conversion, violence, and vendetta
The greed of Indian corporate promoters is unparalleled. There is a saying in the stock market that promoters recover their investment by bringing in their first IPO in which they sell their shares to the public at highly inflated prices. This saying has more than a grain of truth in it; almost all share issues are priced at many times of their face value; typically, a share with a face value of Rs.10 is offered to the public at Rs.600-Rs.700
