This is Part I of two-part article revisiting critical economic decisions that eventually led to minus 23.9% growth in Q1 of FY21. Blaming exogenous factors (pandemic) or intense lockdown is merely an excuse to divert attention from government's ineptitude and thwart meaningful debate

'To tackle the brain drain, the National Education Policy (NEP) has paved the way for opening campuses of best international institutions in the country to bring them within reach of youth from simple families,' PM Modi said

If BCG is indeed proven to be effective against COVID, India will gain on multiple counts. First of all, it can initiate the administration of a dose of BCG on adults without any safety concerns

Vaccine maker Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla in Fortune's global '40 under 40' listSerum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla is among the \"emerging leaders\" from across the world named by Fortune in its annual list of 40 most influential people under the age of 40. Byju Raveendran, co-founder of India's leading education technology company Byju's, Reliance Jio Board Directors Isha Ambani, and Akash Ambani are the other young guns from India to feature on the coveted list.App...

The latest among PM Modi's donations was the initial corpus of Rs 2.25 lakh to the PM CARES Fund, which was set up in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak to support relief of any kind relating to a public health emergency or any other kind of emergency

The downward revision in Indian economy's annual forecast comes a day after official data showed the country's GDP shrunk by a record 23.9 per cent in the April-June quarter

The 2020 Fortune 40 under 40 list highlights 40 influential people each in five categories of technology, healthcare, finance, media and entertainment, and government and politics from across the world

Gross mismanagement of the economy, starting with demonetisation in November 2016 and continued with untimely, unplanned and sudden nation-wide lockdown has compounded the GST problem. Centre's refusal to pay compensation to states now may derail it completely

This year's list includes 40 influential people under 40 years of age in five categories -- finance, technology, healthcare, government and politics, and media and entertainment

The Aarogya Setu app has bagged the top spot under the health and fitness category, followed by StepSetGo, Home Workout, Loss Weight app for men, Increase Height Workout, and Six packs in 30 days

Multi-asset portfolios outperform conventional counterparts

IESA Chairman Satya Gupta says, \"any chip getting done in the world will have some contribution from Indian semiconductor ecosystem. More than 90 per cent of semiconductor companies have their R&D Centres in India where cutting-edge chip development work takes place\"

Upgrad has 5 lakh learner base, of which 32,000 are paid users. The company expects to close the current fiscal year with a revenue of around Rs 1,200 crore

Delhi recorded 2,024 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the highest single-day spike in cases in August, taking the tally to over 1.73 lakh, while the death toll rose to 4,426 with 22 more fatalities

Unlock 40 in Rajasthan: 50 per cent of teaching and non-teaching staff to be called to schools at a time for online teaching, tele-counselling and related work

PM Modi Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi said that India has the ability to become a toy hub for the entire world. He urged Indian startups to focus on toy making

Developed economies have sound, fiscally-supported systems to respond to workers' distress in normal times, which they scaled up several notches with higher fiscal support to fight the current crisis. India doesn't have such a system nor did it rise up to the crisis; it isn't even tracking job loss

There is a need to take knowledge related to agriculture and its practical application to school level, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India's new unemployment allowance plan for lockdown-induced job loss would benefit a small fraction of organised workers; the new social security code in the works aims to expand social security to 100 million organised workers but contains no concrete plan for 437 million unorganised workers

NEP 2020 does not address the fundamental flaws in Indian education system: poor public investment, ad hoc and low-paid teachers, segregation of students on socio-economic status and low quality of school education. Rhetorical flourish doesn't bring transformative changes