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Yogi Aggarwal

What started as a social network to keep tabs on friends is increasingly playing a political role. It is in the nature of the beast.

Social media firms are moving from markets to votes

Modi and the BJP have been most successful in using social media channels to promote their ideology.

25 Jun 2019 1:35 AM

Data as our ‘new oil’ and ‘new wealth’: What India Inc wants

What is more feasible is for Reliance Industries is to roll out its online shopping platform that will take on both Amazon and Walmart Inc’s Flipkart.

30 Jan 2019 1:34 AM

Google, the biggest Internet company, is also a big government contractor in the United States.

Spurt in snooping likely to make govt hostage to private interests

Unlike the tapping of landline phones or opening letters sent by post, the new snooping methods involve not-so-simple options.

10 Jan 2019 6:55 AM

The farmers’ agitation seeking MSP for all crops and farm produce has been on for over a year.

Long-term solution to farm distress needed

Farmers contend that while the input prices that they have to pay have increased substantially, the MSP does not reflect these changes.

24 Dec 2018 12:00 AM

The ratio of gross fixed capital formation to GDP had climbed from 26.5 per cent in 2003, reached a peak of 38.3 per cent in 2007, and then slid back to 26.4 per cent in 2017.

Shift in GDP rates is just clever jugglery

Foreign trade has also slowed down considerably, showing lack of demand and growth.

11 Dec 2018 1:35 AM

As the downward spiral of the rupee continues, its effect will be felt in the government not being able to hold the fiscal deficit, inflation in oil and other imports, the fall of investments made in the stock market and the increased cost to companies in repaying foreign loans.

As rupee falls, trouble in economy snowballs

A further fall in stock market prices would lead to FIIs pulling more money out of the country and a further fall in the rupee.

06 Oct 2018 1:53 PM

In Kerala, there are some 44 dams that store river waters. Not being forewarned about the unexpected heavy rains in mid-August, the dams were in danger of overflowing and suddenly released excess water. (Photo: PTI)

Kerala re-runs loom as rains’ intensity to grow

Massive floods following unexpected heavy rains leading to the loss of lives and destruction of property have become more common in recent years.

12 Sep 2018 1:19 AM

The government wanted Facebook-WhatsApp to appoint a grievance officer and find a technological solution to trace the origin of fake messages.

Why FB and WhatsApp too have eye on 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has also increasingly involved Facebook in international affairs.

31 Aug 2018 1:16 AM

The official figures released by Switzerland’s central bank, the Switzerland National Bank, does not include the money that Indians, NRIs or others might have in Swiss banks in the names of entities from different countries. (Photo: AP)

Relocating black stash: From Swiss banks to Caribbean & other havens

Once tax-evaded money or funds obtained through criminal means gets to havens abroad, there is little that the Indian government can do.

26 Jul 2018 6:06 AM

The GST was controversial because of the high and multiple rates imposed on the businesses and the consumers, but the hope was that it would make tax collection easier and evasion more difficult.

Govt giving false hopes on economy

The government’s actions are around creating a feel good tactic rather than a serious economic effort.

05 Jul 2018 12:23 AM

Instead of letting petrol and diesel prices drop, the government increased the excise duties three fold from `886 billion in 2013-14 (before being voted to power) to Rs 2.58 trillion in 2018-19.

It’s time the govt took a serious look at economy

The World Bank in its draft World Development Report 2019 said in India the formal sector or industry pays twice as much as in the informal sector.

04 Jun 2018 5:45 AM

Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi (Photo: PTI)

To fix mess in banking, admit the problem first

India has faced many banking crises. Hundreds of banks had shut down in the 1930s and 1940s.

01 May 2018 12:11 AM

There are now 2.2 billion (2,200 million) Facebook users around the world, which is a little less than double the population of India, and indicates the influence that it can command. (Photo: AP)

How Facebook, Google and others pose a growing threat to people worldwide

India is arguably Facebook’s most important market, with the nation recently edging out the United States as the company’s biggest user base.

12 Apr 2018 5:59 AM

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Ethical debate on euthanasia unlikely to end

Suicide is death inflicted on oneself, unlike murder, but remains outside what is permitted by law.

28 Mar 2018 2:22 AM

The fact that private mines are able to sell coal at lower rates than Coal India doesn’t imply that they are more efficient than the state-owned mining company.

Will privatisation help the cause of coal industry?

Today, India produces 554 million tons of coal as against 79 million tons in 1973.

27 Feb 2018 12:23 AM

Agriculture is one of those sectors where we have seen no reforms, whether in terms of export-import policies or domestic constraints.

Economic Survey glosses over the problems that lie ahead for India

In agriculture, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shrill rhetoric, there has been no major investment by the State in recent years.

01 Feb 2018 6:47 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

The RSS agenda: Replacing science with myths

Another BJP appointee has gone a step further and even postulated that ancient India had nuclear weapons.

30 Jan 2018 4:05 AM

This is the largest Indian investment in that country and has ample scope for generating employment and meeting the needs of the country.

How Chabahar port will benefit all neighbouring countries

The Chinese investment in Gwadar is much more, and its trade with Central Asia much higher.

04 Jan 2018 2:54 AM

Forbes’ India Rich Lists suggest an important increase in the wealth of the richest Indians after 2000.

As India got richer, inequality also rose

The picture becomes increasingly skewed the higher we move up the wealth chain.

27 Oct 2017 1:07 AM

First bullet train in India will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a 516 km long route. (Photo: /Representational/AFP)

Bullet trains: Far too costly for India

The Indian Railways are the country’s largest public investment, employing over a million people.

28 Sep 2017 1:49 AM

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