BENGALURU: As India concludes a fascinating 5G auction which lasted 40 rounds with the bids reaching over ₹1.5 lakh crore, all eyes are now on how 5G will change India. Since Jio entered the market, competition ensured the internet was affordable and accessible pan-India. Covid-19 pushed those on the fence as the nation grappled with lockdowns. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India moved a step closer to getting 5G services with the auction of 5G spectrum. If all goes well, 5G services will be launched by the end of the year, propelling this country into the same or similar league comprising 5G nations. In this conversation on The Gist, Jaijit Bhattacharya, tech entrepreneur and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The most recent G7 Summit took place in Germany in June 2022. While media attention was primarily focused on the collective response of the powerful economic nations to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an interesting but less reported announcement was made by the U.S. President Biden in the context of nuclear energy. He […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The rupee is going global! This is not to deny that the rupee has been convertible on the current account since 1994. But calibrated steps by the Reserve Bank and the government over so many years is leading inevitably to the rupee going fully convertible, says Anil Padmanabhan, editor of the popular Capital […]Read More
Suranjali Tandon, assistant professor at the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy and a specialist on international trade, gave written answers to questions put to her by Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, on the monetary issues thrown up by the Ukraine war. Q: President Putin recently said that banks from BRICS nations can freely connect […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, Ambassador Jayant Dasgupta, India’s Former Envoy to the World Trade Organisation(WTO) and Ex Secretary, PM’s Economic Advisory Council in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Dasgupta discusses the World Trade Organisation’s 12th ministerial conference (#MC12) outcomes, India’s gains and losses, agriculture, fisheries subsidies, Trade Related Intellectual Property […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The global economy is becoming more intertwined and innovation-driven, and this creativity needs to be supported by intellectual property (IP). For many entrepreneurs, investors and businesses, IP is the lifeblood of innovation but it is turning into a battleground between the world’s biggest economic powers because of the theft of such property. According […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rapidly changing geopolitics has had a welcome fallout for India in at least one respect: the apparent willingness of some of the world’s defence hardware majors to transfer key technologies to India. This could be the case with jet engines given reports that the government has told France’s Safran and GE of the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Billionaire Elon Musk has rustled up $44 billion to buy social networking and microblogging site twitter. He will oversee his new empire with no board to oversee what he does or how he does it. That could be problematic for India, argues Jaijit Bhattacharya, president of the Centre for Digital Economy Policy. Speaking […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi and his visiting British counterpart Boris Johnson appear to have struck the right notes as they wound up talks in Delhi. Modi confirmed that detailed discussions had taken place on the India-Britain “strategic and defence partnership” and major agreements had been finalised between the two nations. “We welcome the UK’s keenness […]Read More
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