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Manufacturing needs to pick up

The industry is hopeful that the upcoming Union Budget will provide the necessary fillip in this direction.

Also to sustain the growth trajectory, it is expected that there would be further significant enhancements in the budgetary allocations to facilitate the growth and development of the food processing industry, since the last budget.

Food processing can help farmers

India produces large amounts of fruits, which is much more than what we consume.

30 Jun 2019 6:51 AM

Export financing is another vital area which needs clear policy intervention.

Exports: Keep focus on competitiveness

India must seriously start looking at preferential agreements to ensure that its exports face no tariff barriers for unhindered market presence.

30 Jun 2019 2:13 AM

We expect that the budget will provide a strong impetus for skill development which would greatly add to service sector activities, particularly for construction, professional services and healthcare.

Unlock potential of service sector

These can be taken to the next level over the coming five years, with the upcoming Union Budget setting the pace.

30 Jun 2019 2:09 AM

There is another whisper in the corridors of power reviving thinking about the Presidential form of government.

One nation, one poll: Simplistic solutions not always the best

Early indications are that most opposition parties are sceptical but some stray voices, including in the Congress have been more receptive.

23 Jun 2019 2:34 AM

The general feeling is to consider elections as a result when in fact the election is a process to bring in a government that can implement developmental policies and maintain the governance.

Simultaneous Election: If we could do it with GST, why not with one poll?

There are some instances of General Elections and State Assemblies Elections taking place together till the year 1967.

23 Jun 2019 2:31 AM

Activists of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) shout slogans to protest the alleged neglect of J&K by the Centre in the process of delimitation, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Delimitation row: Follow rules to redraw seats

The outrage against the proposed delimitation of Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir needs to be understood in its right context.

16 Jun 2019 9:15 AM

Veteran journalist and Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar.

Delimitation row: Kashmir under Modi 2.0

Bukhari was founder of the newspaper Rising Kashmir and passionate campaigner for peace in Jammu and Kashmir.

16 Jun 2019 9:11 AM

There will be progressive decline of employment in the manufacturing sector and therefore new avenues of employment has to be created in the services sector.

It’s the economy, stupid!

As regards employment problems that plague the MSME sector, they should be tackled in a time bound manner.

09 Jun 2019 1:17 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet. (Photo: PTI)

No end to dynastic politics

If the supremo has only one child, irrespective of gender, the child rules the roost in the party.

02 Jun 2019 6:18 AM

Many BJP MPs might have won because the votes were for Mr Modi but now that they are elected, each of them is a member of Parliament. (Photo: File)

A zero sum game of ‘sabka saath’

Post-victory, the BJP may want to proclaim inclusivism, but they have emptied out the very space.

02 Jun 2019 6:12 AM

In reality no political party wins or loses elections, it is we, the people, who win, if we vote right and we, the people, who lose if we vote wrong.

Coalition against corruption

People associate corruption with the direct bribes they pay to get their work done in government departments.

02 Jun 2019 6:06 AM

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, arrive for the Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Congress at a Crossroads: Surgical Strike Needed Ahead

Regional politics has taken a hit and non-Congress Opposition politics will find it tough to survive.

26 May 2019 6:37 AM

Shiv Sena is born of a sense of injustice to the ‘sons of the soil’.

Regional Parties: Hardly an existential problem!

Tamil Nadu has a very strong sense of an autonomous cultural identity and its people seem to despise the perceived hegemony of the Hindi North.

26 May 2019 6:32 AM

BJP workers welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

PM Modi’s foreign policy 2.0

India will look to partner with the US and Japan in infrastructure in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka as well as East Africa.

26 May 2019 6:25 AM

Article 324 (2) provides that the ECI shall consist of CEC and such number of other election commissioners (ECs), if any, as the President may, from time to time, fix. (Photo: File)

Election Commission of India and Democratic Deficit

Interestingly, the appointment of the CEC and other ECs are exclusively dependent on the will of the Executive.

26 May 2019 6:20 AM

Income support schemes – the Congress’s Nyay for 20 per cent of the poorest households and the BJP’s PM Kisan scheme for farmers with less than two hectare of land, are both progressive social protection measures.

Bitter morning-after pill for new govt post elections

Severe inequality in the allocation of public finance is a primary reason for rural impoverishment.

19 May 2019 5:41 AM

Modernisation of the military cannot be put on backburner

India is expecting to fill the gap with the acquisition of 36 Rafale jets which will be armed with deadly beyond-visual-range Meteor missiles.

19 May 2019 2:34 AM

Some of the major reasons among the farmers’ anger is the discrepancy in various clauses of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.

Farm loans, MSP top priorities

Farmers also even allege that only around 45 per cent of claims have been disbursed by insurance companies.

19 May 2019 2:31 AM

Being demographically the youngest country in the world the new government would need to improve upon the education infrastructure on a massive scale.

100 per cent literacy still remains a mirage

The new health minister should also focus on regulating medicine and medical equipment prices.

19 May 2019 2:27 AM

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