Shivaji Sarkar

The nation needs to review some decisions on electronic linking of documents. It is not a matter of mere individual privacy but leakages of secrecy of critical information threatening national security as well.

India’s GDP is rising, large corporate is aiding recovery and popular decisions are helping the people having ease of living but consumer spending and Omicron remains a concern.

Finally, the three farm bills are to be withdrawn as the nation goes to polls in UP, Punjab and three other states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement will lead to a sea change in the gamut of a year-long struggle by the farmers.…

India’s Prime Minister Gati Shakti mega master plan is aimed at coordinated infrastructure schemes of various central ministries and state governments to ensure quick completion of works and efficiency, possiblya long termneed for a nation…

The climate meet Climate Change Conference (COP 26) is galore of promises as desertification theworld over increases. The meet is less on concrete terms to bring down temperature but high on verbose.

RISING COSTS LOWER DEMAND, GROWTH The nation needs wisdom to stir it out of difficult situation. An economy sinking for months hurt grievously by corona lockdown needs ability to come out of the blues with humane moves to help the…

STOCKING NO MORE CRIME,FARMER SUCCESS DEPENDS ON CASH DEALS If wishes were horses “one India one farm market” would have been a reality under prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee 20 years back. The Narendra Modi government’s move is good…

$ 1 TR LOSS PROJECTED,INEQUALITY RISES, POOR NEED MORE CASH Heading for a serious situation Indian economy faces contraction in the current and possibly the next financial year following almost a global pattern of pushing a large chunk to…

ATMANIRBHARATA OF THE POOR PAVES PATH TO PROGRESS The long march of crores might have become a political issue, but in Indian context there is nothing new to it except that Covid 19 has brought to fore a crisis simmering for long. The…

STATES PUT BRAKE ON POOR, CORONA SOCIAL CRISIS HITS SDG Even as some state governments like Karnataka suppresses the informal sector worker, the UN has raised the red flag of growing modern slavery, suppression of information and hitting…

INDIAN STIMULUS SHORT OF NEEDS The devastation caused by pandemic ensued lockdown may take ten long years to recover and the world economy may continue to be in severe crisis till 2030, forecasts UN report. In 2020, global economy would…

SHOOTS DOWN WHO, UN, WTO MULTILATERISM Corona has sought some targets. World bodies are crumbling. Poor migrant labourers are suffering. Middle class lives in fear. Opposition parties ruling about half the states are in a quandary. The…

11 M. TO GET IMPOVERISHED, RECOVERY NEEDS 10 PC OF WORLD GDP The world is slipping into a crisis for the lockdown, World Bank (WB) and the UN say. About 11 million people would be in severe poverty, WB says. The UN says it requires 10…

SEA CHANGE LIKELY IN GLOBAL FINANCE, HOME PRODUCTION TO SUSTAIN INDIA An unknown disease, corona, has put the world in lockdown. India is competing with others to force its people at home. Where it fails, the cop becomes the bad boy. No…

POVERTY MAY RISE, WAGES TO BE CUT India, like the world, faces a deep crisis as shipping charges reach critical highs and lows amid less known impact of corona and government revenues slump. It may impact trading and governance costs. The…

CORONA PANIC HITS PURCHASES, BANK MERGERS SHOWN AS SILVER LINE The last quarter figures of 2019-20 fiscal may have reasons to cause worry. An uninteresting central budget, corona virus, plummeting stock indices and uncertainty over bank…

REAL ESTATE 200 P.C. OVERVALUED India now the fifth largest economy and is aiming to become the third is growing at 5 percent in 2019-20, says the Economic Survey. The RBI has estimated it at 4.8 percent and IMF and other international…

GLOBAL LEADER HAS TO CUT MULTIPLE PRICING, ENSURE LOW PRICES, HIGH GROWTH India has high expectation from the ensuing 2020-21 central budget. It wants growth, high demand, boost agriculture, lower prices and a feeling of happiness all…

CENTRE NEEDS TO START DIALOGUE The economy is tizzy. The figures apart certain avoidable developments are adding to the worries. The slowdown or falling GDP has caused enough anxieties. Countrywide disruption in the wake of Citizenship…

RATE RISE MUST TO SAVE ECONOMY, CHECK EURO-TYPE CRASH, VIOLENCE The latest RBI decision to stagnate rates show semblance of reality has dawned. As prices are rising, economy is slowing down and savings are hit, the decision is partially…

PATH MISDIRECTED, MUST STOP FALL IN SAVINGS, INTROSPECT FRAUD ON PEOPLE IIndian economy rarely had the kind of problem it is facing. The country is in a quandary. It is looking for ways to come out. In 1991, India pawned its gold with…

IIndia bashing, particularly on poverty or hunger, is passion. It earns you eminent awards and simultaneously global hunger index (GHI) can be hyped or misinterpreted, it turns the ancient civilization into a morbid culture and “scholars”…

The nation pays homage to the Mahatma Gandhi, a grass root thinker, amid protests by farmers in UP for more relief, core sector turning negative, increasing government borrowings, rebuilding or destroying New Delhi’s heritage identity,…

Some coincidences, some windfall, reworking fiscal package and falling growth rate mark the economic developments. The transfer of Rs 1.76 lakh crore by RBI to the government to fill similar gap in the revised estimates in the budget for…