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India must play active role on world stage: Tirumurti

He began by outlining how the international order built after the Second World War is slowly falling apart. Institutions and rules that once shaped...

Marginal dip in Internet subscribers in Q3

This Report provides a broad perspective of the telecom services in India and presents the key parameters and growth trends of the telecom services. The...

Call to beef up storage system for grid stability

The inconsistency of renewable sources like solar and wind poses a considerable challenge to grid stability, according to M Chandrasekar, former Chairman of the...

Assembly elections – time for freebies

The states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the UT of Puducherry go for polls in April. Though the election dates were announced by the EC only on 26 February, the campaign had started months ahead, especially in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. The governments have also been coming out with massive advertisements in the media, projecting the achievements of the parties in power and also with liberal sops for vast sections of voters.

Disinvestment

Steep fall in revenue, increase in borrowings, huge step-up in expenditure to provide succour for the Covid-19 affected population and a slowdown in economic growth had resulted in a steep spurt in fiscal deficits of the Centre and states. Privatisation and monetisation, therefore, offer an ideal panacea.

Dr Subramanian (KS) CEA, GoI quotes Thiruvalluvar as an inspiration for growth model

IE Webinar March 27 2021 Video of Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian (KS) CEA, GOI below: https://youtu.be/HHY2ROCAW_I 

A challenge for Election Commission

The two major Dravidian parties of Tamil Nadu have been vying with one another in offering a wide range of freebies that are budgeted to cost the exchequer Rs 94,100 crore during 2020-21 and this is expanding.  With elections to the state assembly just a few months away, political parties of Tamil Nadu are stepping up their campaigns. AIADMK, spearheaded by Chief Minister E K Palaniswami, has been vigorously campaigning across the state. Principal opposition DMK, led by M K Stalin, has been active in reaching out to villages spread across the state.

A mega investment by Tatas in Tamil Nadu

There is interesting news on several mega investments going into Tamil Nadu. Tata Electronics to invest around Rs 5763 crore on facilities to make mobile...

Fortune 500 list of companies 2020

The wheel of ‘Fortune’ Fortune magazine has been annually ranking 500 global corporations on various financial parameters. IE had pointed to the dominance of American...

Neglect of its icons by Tamils

There seems to be a passion in Tamils to admire, adore and even deify select leaders. Look at the plethora of statues for political...

Need for kisan Rail from Salem

The farmers’ agitation seems to have revived interest on the Kisan Rail as another incentive to farmers spread across the country. Prime Minister Narendra...

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