The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) has posthumously conferred the prestigious Nain Singh-Kishan Singh Lifetime Achievement Award on former Border Security Force (BSF)
Under the Extended Funding Facility (EFF) $7 billion bailout programme for Pakistan, it was agreed that a progress review would be done every six months.
A recent IMF report offers key insights for India amid an increasingly debt-laden global economy.
The recent IMF report presents a mixed picture of the global economy: the immediate threat of recession has receded, and inflation is gradually stabilising, yet a new alarm has been sounded on the surging levels of global debt.
The level of uncertainty surrounding the global economic outlook is high, the report noted on Tuesday
Political consensus has not developed yet on the issues relating to land acquisition and labour laws. Resistance of different groups against land acquisition for open cast coal mine at Deucha-Panchami near Sainthia in Bengal is indicative of the fact that we have not moved an inch from the days of the Singur agitation when it comes to the issue of land acquisition. Various stakeholders are still opposed to the new labour laws
The Reserve Bank of India's forex reserves decreased to $635.667 billion from $635.828 billion during the week ended December 10.
The top echelons of these institutions rarely stay in Pakistan, having invested their income in purchasing property and businesses abroad.
The IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO) kept the gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts it had made in July for India, whose Covid-battered economy had shrunk by 7.3 per cent in the last fiscal year.
The country's social stability started deteriorating since the October 2019 uprising, adding to it is the economic impact of Covid-19 and the deadly Port of Beirut explosions in August 2020.
