Category : Capital Calculus

NEW DELHI: India’s Data Democracy experiment is poised to acquire a key building block: implementing strict rules to access and use personal data. Last week India moved a step closer with the union government circulating the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 for comments. This replaces the version that was withdrawn earlier this year, […]Read More

NEW DELHI : Last Friday, Skyroot Aerospace Pvt. Ltd—the Hyderabad-based startup—successfully launched its sub-orbital rocket, Vikram-S, at 11.30 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. It was the first satellite launch vehicle built by a private Indian company but launched using the facilities provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The launch followed […]Read More

NEW DELHI: A soon to be published study conducted People Research on India’s Consumer Economy (PRICE), a consumer research firm, made several startling revelations and busted long held beliefs about India’s middle class. For one it estimates the size of the Indian middle class on the higher side at 432 million. Second, it projects this […]Read More

NEW DELHI: A few weeks ago, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) raised its performance bar yet again when its commercial arm successfully placed 36 communication satellites of London-based OneWeb in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)—the new genre of satellites. The satellites—part of a constellation of owned by OneWeb—proposes to reinvent communication by enabling processing of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Over the last weeks and months we have had mixed tidings about the Indian economy, even while the situation for the world is going from bad to worse. In India, inflation continues to be defiant and the rupee has steadily lost ground to the dollar. On the other hand, as we just saw […]Read More