America monitoring Chinese Ingress in its backyard
How America counters Chinese ingress in its backyard will be an important touchpoint in crafting its future approach.
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GST And Its Undelivered Promises
GOODS and Services Tax (GST) has completed six years since it was launched on midnight of June 30, 2017. It was billed as India’s second freedom. In a repetition of the then Parliament’s midnight meeting on August 14, 1947, the Parliament met dramatically in 2017 to hear the Prime Minister announce the launch of GST.
Democracy in Question: From Madhya Pradesh to France
Riots spread from a suburb of Paris to over 300 towns across France, after the police shot dead a teenager of North African descent, Nahel Marzouk, in a traffic stop that proved one too many for the alienated, unemployed, ill-educated youth of immigrant stock, subjected to routine racial profiling by the police. The police have had to arrest thousands of people, including minors before a semblance of calm returned to the land of liberty, equality and fraternity.
New Delhi forges a unique path in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): A positive stride amidst diversity
The SCO represents 40 per cent of the world’s population and a third of its GDP, albeit due to China and India.
SAMRIDH – A VISION TO STRENGTHEN INDIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM
With both government-run and commercial facilities offering medical services to the nation's population of more than 1.3 billion, India's healthcare system is intricate and multifaceted. The healthcare system still faces an array of problems- such as inadequate budget, a scarcity of healthcare
staff and inadequate infrastructure, despite substantial advancements in recent years.
Onion Prices: A Perennial Problem
In response to the exponential hike in onion prices in the mandis (wholesale fruit and vegetable bazaars) and retail markets, the Union Government reintroduced stock limits on October 23 on traders and wholesalers by invoking a provision of the newly-amended Essential Commodities Act of 1955. Before this, to ease rising prices, the Government had banned export of the bulb and relaxed import norms to increase the stocks available for retail trade.
Crony Capitalists Due To Corrupt Political Funding
IT might seem a stretch to argue that corporate governance and bank asset quality depend on cleaning up India’s political funding. But it is not. It is simply the cold, hard truth. And since that reform is yet to happen, all talk of a robust financial sector and SEBI’s incremental success in reforming corporate governance is as hollow as the claim that India, long driven by caste hierarchy and grossly unequal distribution of social and cultural power, has democracy in its DNA.