India’s Covid-19 stimulus package as a percentage of its GDP is currently at around 10%, which is way lower than several other major economies.
This is the first full-year contraction in the Indian economy in the last four decades since 1979-80, when GDP had shrunk by 5.2 per cent. This is also the second straight quarter of expansion since India exited a rare recession.
The complexity of West Bengal politics sets itself differently complex to the shades of National politics. There has been a range of common identities like upper class, elite, working class etc.
Ironic for a state that has such a large number of Urdu speakers. Most of the Indian states with substantial population of Urdu speakers, have Urdu Academies
The AAP project is not entirely new and many subnational states in India have previously executed it successfully and continue to do so.
The change should start with you. In the words of Mother Teresa, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
India has started one of the world’s largest immunization programmes in the world with two vaccines – Oxford’s Astra Zeneca Covishield produced by Serum Institute of India and Covaxin produced by Bharat Biotech
“The evolution of man is the hope of the state.”
Masks are likely to stay, so is some level of social distancing. Experts have already asked people, even those vaccinated, to keep wearing masks.
Report by non-profit international aid organization CARE showed that pandemic has caused a crisis in women’s mental health.
Farmers have been arguing that these legislations will eventually bring an end to the mandi system and leave them vulnerable to corporates bringing an end to assured procurement of their crops at MSP.
If Bihar was a country it would be the 12th most populous country in the world, sandwiched somewhere between Japan and Ethiopia.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown us how completely life can be disrupted due to a single virus. How borders are porous and public health is a global responsibility.
Rape, molestation, sexual assaults, gender discrimination and cyberbullying are frequently used terms in our ‘progressive India’ and why not; after all our country has recorded 88 rape cases every day in 2019.
Serum Institute of India that has partnered to produce the vaccine says it will be available by March 2021 in the market. Meanwhile Bharat Biotech has partnered with Washington University to develop an intranasal vaccine for COVID-19.
Dreadful figures and reports show that the tourism industry has fallen off a cliff. From small homestay owners to big travel conglomerate, everyone is sailing into a tornado and hoping for a survival.
Multigenerational living, where two or more generations of the family, live together with fully or partially shared spaces, is on the rise.
Despite knowing the student’s difficulties, the Supreme court dismissed the plea of postponing exams. From an academic point of view, the SC has rightly stated that the career of students “cannot be put in peril for long” but what about their lives.
These Bills passed amidst massive objections from opposition parties have resulted in farmers, particularly from Punjab and Haryana, launching protests which since then have spread far and wide.
