Is the current exuberance in the economy a momentary surge, or does it signal a structural reboot that could extend into the next few quarters? And what more needs to be done to keep the momentum going? Here’s what the Board of India Today Economists (BITE) think Board of India Today Economists (BITE ISSUE DATE:…
When the GDP numbers for the second quarter of the current fiscal came in December-end, economists were pleasantly surprised. Growth had risen to 8.2 per cent, higher than the 7.2 per cent in Q1, and much higher than the 7 per cent the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had anticipated. This brought to the fore…
In an exclusive interview, Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav says the Centre is looking at a ‘whole of government’ strategy to bring down pollution numbers. Excerpts: ISSUE DATE: Dec 22, 2025 | UPDATED: Dec 13, 2025 17:57 IST Q. Pollution is choking Delhi. How can we break this annual cycle? Source link
Delhiites now know everything there is to know about pollution in their city. It’s a multilayered curse: vehicular and industrial emissions, construction dust and burning of waste, topped each winter with smoke that blows in from farm fires in Punjab and Haryana. No less than the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, complained of…
It was the afternoon of December 4, and the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru had lost all sense of order. The departure boards blinked, then froze. Airline counters stood deserted, as people wandered around dazed and confused. Hundreds of bags lay scattered across the terminal, unattended and unclaimed. It would have been an unsettling sight…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s long-delayed summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his first in four years, unfolds at a moment when US president Donald Trump is violently rearranging the global chessboard. A time when the world is sharply polarised by war, sanctions and shifting power centres, forcing nations to rethink old assumptions and quietly redraw…
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“Modiji, I want to go back home. The cry cut through the crowd that had gathered in Churachandpur on September 13 to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was visiting Manipur 28 months after the state was wracked by ethnic violence in May 2023, which left 258 dead, 62,000 displaced and 4,786 houses burned. The…
It was past midnight, days before the second phase of polling in Bihar, and Patna was all but asleep. At Hotel Maurya, though, a heavily curtained suite on the upper floors was showing signs of hectic activity. On a bare sofa, Union home minister Amit Shah was deep in the middle of another review. No…
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