NEW DELHI: The Artemis Accords which India signed last week during Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, could have crucial implications for India’s space programme. It comes at a time when India is bringing the private sector into space, acknowledging the fact that worldwide that has been the trend. In this conversation on The Gist, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India-EU trade, currently at around $135 billion, could see a major boost if negotiators are able to wrap up talks on a free trade area by early next year. The word is discussions are going well and Stratnews Global learns from official and non-official sources that even prickly issues like labour, environment standards […]Read More
Last week India released its official growth numbers for the fourth quarter of 2022-23. It was a surprise on the upside. As a result, growth in the last fiscal year was 7.2%, compared to 7% estimated earlier. Coincidentally, in the same week, two global investment banks, Morgan Stanley and Amundi, published independent reports saying that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Earlier this week, the first meeting of the Army chiefs of India and some African countries took place in Pune. This marked the conclusion of a 10-day field exercise in which contingents from India and nine African countries took part; there were observers from 11 other African nations as well. Among other things, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Welcome to Interstellar.News from the stable of StratNews Global and BharatShakti. In this chat on The Gist with Chaitanya Giri, Editor of the new website, we get an introduction to what Interstellar will bring to viewers and readers. But first off, why Interstellar? Giri points to recent developments concerning the space sector in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The crisis triggered by the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California appears to have stabilised for now although serious questions remain to be answered, says Anil Padmanabhan, Editor of the Capital Calculus substack. Answering questions on The Gist, he pointed out that the banking regulators in the US were taken […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week the Central Statistics Office (CSO) released the gross domestic product (GDP) data for the quarter ended December 2022 as well as the second advance estimates for 2022-23.While newspaper headlines claimed that growth had slowed in Q3, experts and government officials argued otherwise. The latter point out that growth rates for previous […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Addressing the ‘Global Business Summit’ hosted by The Economic Times last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that appropriate policy action had enabled India to transform into an ‘antifragile’ nation. “The world has changed, global systems have changed, and India has also changed. In the recent past, we all have heard a lot […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Earlier this month as China celebrated the Lunar New Year, local media spotlighted the millions of dollars paid out in digital currency to promote consumption. The city of Shenzhen alone doled out more than $14 million dollars worth of digital yuan to help the catering industry. According to the China Daily, Hangzhou, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This year’s Union Budget—the 10th in a row from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance and the fifth for Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman—marked a break from the past. Despite the imminent general election next year, FM Sitharaman passed on the opportunity to be populist. Instead, she served up a 25-year growth […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Little over a week ago Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), housed in the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore, inked a partnership with the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA), Sierra Leone, to build and launch a pilot program for a national digital ID system—similar to Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity accorded to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ravi Pandit, Chairman & Co-Founder, KPIT Technologies Ltd and Co-Author with Dr R.A.Mashelkar of the award winning book, ‘Leapfrogging to Pole-vaulting: Creating the Magic of Radical yet Sustainable Transformation‘ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ravi Pandit discusses the Union Cabinet approving the National Green Hydrogen […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week Parliament passed amendments to the Energy Conservation law, when Rajya Sabha approved it. The Lok Sabha had signed off on the amendments in August. Once, the President gives her assent India will have a new law promoting energy conservation. Two key takeaways are the introduction of carbon trading and making large […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On 1 December India formally took over the leadership of the G20—the influential global high table for managing economic cooperation. About two months ago, India also assumed the Presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the multilateral body which seeks to ensure stability and security across EuroAsia. Finally, India is also the serving […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three recent reports have put the spotlight on India’s growth prospects in the future. First, a study released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), reported that India had successfully lifted 415 million reports between 2005-21. Second, Morgan Stanley put out what is probably the most optimistic report yet by a global investor. […]Read More
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
India’s Space Sector With modern warfare looking at space to establish virtual command centres, private companies across the globe are developing the required technologies. The demand for satellite applications is expected to reach $7 billion by 2031, accelerating at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.67% between 2021–2031. Of the overall space market […]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: Late last month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its heaviest rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3), putting in orbit 36 satellites of a UK-based satellite communications company. This was also the first commercial operation of LVM-3. India’s space economy is very, very low (about 2 per cent of the global space […]Read More
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