Author
Minhaz Merchant is the biographer of Rajiv Gandhi and Aditya Birla and author of The New Clash of Civilizations (Rupa, 2014). He is founder of Sterling Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. which was acquired by the Indian Express group
The five southern states are not alone in competing for foreign investment; Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are also accelerating their efforts
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With both property and stock prices caught in a downward spiral, Chinese consumers are spending less on consumer goods, travel and discretionary purchases
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For India it won’t matter much whether Kamala or Trump is the next US president. American foreign policy is cast in stone. On trade and technology, Kamala will be more aligned to India’s interests while Trump will insist on lowering import barriers
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India missed the first AI bus. It will take years to catch up with levels already attained in Taiwan, China, Korea and parts of the West. But India’s large pool of software engineers and tech entrepreneurs are an asset few other countries posses
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The strategy should be to fix a privatisation target in the Union Budget (as is customary) along with a new separate market divestment target
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According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) which released these figures recently as part of its biennial World Population Report (WPP), India’s population figures in 2100 (1.50 billion) will be more than double China’s population (633 million)
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As Europe turns sharply right and US voters consider the Hobson’s choice between Biden and Trump, Washington knows the ground is shifting beneath its feet, writes the author
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To achieve a GDP of USD seven trillion by 2030, what are the necessary macro and micro ingredients?
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"India has shown with its world-leading digital payments system UPI that it has the innovation ecosystem to create global products," writes Minhaz Merchant
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It’s important that AI is seen for what it is: a tool. It speeds up tasks. That helps researchers in, for example, life sciences to sequence molecules within hours instead of months in the search for life-saving drugs
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