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Red Sea blues: On India’s goods exports..

22.02.24

For the second successive month, India’s goods exports grew last month, albeit with a mild 3.1% uptick from a 1% rise in December. This marks only the fourth month of growth in outbound shipments in 2023-24, and the overall value of merchandise exports this year...

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Towards uniformity..

09.02.24

A Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is a desirable and progressive goal for a secular country. However, mere uniformity without making reasonable allowances for diverse cultural and social practices among different social groups may not be ideal. The UCC adopted by the...

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Disinvestment : Not by cosmetic changes alone ..

09.02.24

The recently released Interim Budget 2024 made a classification change – Disinvestment did not figure as a receipt item in the Budget documents. Earlier, disinvestment would be a separate entry under ‘miscellaneous capital receipts’. What was The...

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The severe erosion of fiscal federalism..

09.02.24

On February 8, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will lead a protest in New Delhi against the Centre for “placing Kerala on a financial embargo”. The Kerala government has accused the Centre of pushing the State into a severe financial crisis by...

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A sunshine initiative..

05.02.24

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim Budget day speech reiterated a plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply power to one crore households in the country using rooftop solar panels. This would help households save ?15,000 annually, the Minister...

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Population priorities..

05.02.24

In what was an intriguing statement in her Interim Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a high-powered committee will be constituted to consider the challenges arising from “fast population growth and demographic changes”. With...

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Poll posture: On the 2024 Interim Budget..

03.02.24

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s sixth consecutive Budget speech was an election-eve, self-congratulatory report card on the economic achievements engendered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the two governments he has led since 2014. Echoing the Finance...

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Smaller citizens: On the gaps in India’s education system..

19.01.24

The pandemic was difficult for India’s youngest citizens, the children, but the true import of its impact is coming to light now. In the Annual Status of Education Report, titled ‘ASER 2023: Beyond Basics’ and released on Wednesday, a survey by civil...

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Shielding SEBI: On Supreme Court’s ruling and SEBI probe..

09.01.24

GS PAPER 3: Indian Economy The Supreme Court of India’s ruling on a batch of petitions, filed in the wake of a U.S.-based short seller’s allegations of malfeasance including stock price manipulation at the Adani group of companies, has squarely...

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Understanding the peace pact with ULFA..

04.01.24

The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) signed a tripartite peace deal with the Centre and the Assam government on December 29, 2023. The memorandum of settlement has several clauses for accelerating the State’s development and...

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India’s 1991 crisis and the RBI Governor’s role..

04.01.24

S.Venkitaramanan, an IAS officer who served as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from December 1990 to December 1992 passed away recently. Two events in which he had participated are worth recording. Both show him as a statesman who did his best for his...

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