Over the past few months, cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm. It has become impossible to ignore, and we have seen it become a part of the common vocabulary of not just the millennials but many of the boomers (older generation) as well. This craze is primarily because of the astronomical rise in the …
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Australia has passed a law in the Parliament that if Google, Facebook, and other technology firms share news articles from media companies on their platform (Google search/ Facebook news feed, etc), they will have to pay these media companies a certain amount for the content they generate. At present, news publishers get only a fraction …
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The Government had announced Production Linked Initiative schemes for two sectors namely electronics and pharmaceuticals to attract investments and promote domestic manufacturing. These sectors were identified because of India’s core competency in these segments and their potential for growth and exports. [You may also read: Impact of COVID on pharmaceutical in India] The Government has …
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Introduction Amidst a lot of excitement, our Education Minister released the New Education Policy 2020 on July 29th. This 66-page revolutionary document seeks to undo the damage caused to our education system over the years through disastrous policies. It looks at various ways to revive India’s ailing school system through concerted and targeted measures that …
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What’s the issue? The Central Government hasn’t paid the states their share of GST revenues. Apparently, the Union Finance secretory told the Parliamentary panel on finance ministry that “the central government is in no position to pay the share of the states” Though, the Government cleared the pending dues (of Rs 13,806 crore) for 2019-20 …
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The Quad or Quadrilateral security dialogue is an informal strategic group that includes four maritime democracies in the Indo-Pacific region- India, Australia, the US, and Japan. It seeks to increase cooperation and coordination amongst the member countries to preserve a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region This grouping was initiated by Japan in the year 2007. …
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The inner workings of foreign currency exchange (FX or forex) markets are extremely complicated. That’s because they are affected by a wealth of micro and macroeconomic factors. It’s because of this dependency that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an extreme rise in volatility in the global FX market. As a result, this affected every economy …
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