Harsh V. Pant, Premesha Saha The visit by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to India, in March 2023, during which he engaged with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on global and bilateral issues, focused on cooperation between the G-7…
The fisheries sector is a direct source of livelihood for more than 20 million fishers and fish farmers and contributes INR 1.75 trillion annually to the gross value added to India's economy. Considering the present and upcoming growth and potential in the fisheries sector in India, PM Matsya Sampada Yojana scheme aims to bring the Blue Revolution through sustainable and responsible development in this sector. It also helps to modernise and strengthen the value chain, enhance traceability and establish a robust fisheries management framework, and, at the same time, ensure the socio-economic welfare of fishers and fish farmers.
5G is not just about faster speeds of data transfer. It is different from 4G on two other counts — massively more data throughput and low bounded latency. This combination could be leveraged to produce all kinds of innovations in education, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics and entertainment
Recognise AT1 bonds as insurance, rather than pure debt. Once AT1 bonds are understood as insurance by a bank that is still a going concern, against a calamitous loss, the expectation that they should be bailed in only after equity is written off would disappear
The high-decibel angst of investors in Credit Suisse’s Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds that were fully written off before selling the bank to rival UBS for $3.23 billion resonates with investors in Yes Bank’s AT1 bonds, who are currently litigating against such a write-off at the hands of the RBI-appointed administrator, before the troubled bank was transferred to State Bank of India.
Yet, a company owned by GoI and the government of Delhi, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), is crushing EODB under the wheels of its growing fleet of world-class trains, in the most spectacular fashion possible
If god has a competitor, even in a limited capacity, it is the Government of India. GoI combines in itself the trinity of creator, preserver and destroyer when it comes to ease of doing business (EODB).
The Mathura rape case of 1972, where a young tribal girl was raped by two uniformed police officials in Maharashtra, was a watershed moment in India’s rape laws that shook the country and initiated the first changes in India’s archaic rape laws. Forty years later, the brutal Nirbhaya case of 2012 jolted the nation out of its stupor. The case led to reforms in the rape laws in the country, redefined rape, brought in stringent punishment and introduced death penalties for repeat rape offenders. Yet on the ground, little seems to have changed for the girls and women in India. The latest crime figures against women tell a different story. There has been a 15% increase in cases of crime against women in 2021 from the previous year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data released in August 2022.