Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
Unbridled inflation in India continues to race ahead
April 18, 2022
Few would have been surprised by the news today that inflation in India has risen again in March, because it was expected that inflation would keep rising. But what caught most analysts and bankers off guard was the extent to which inflation had raced ahead as the government says...
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Replay of 2017 in French Presidential elections
April 12, 2022
If there was one surprising outcome of the first round of the French Presidential elections on Sunday, it was just how strongly Jean Luc Mélenchon performed, ending up in a respectable third position with 21.95 pc votes, just behind far right leader Marine Le Pen, who was the ru...
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Despite rising inflation, RBI holds interest rates at lowest-ever
April 9, 2022
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India that ended its two-day meeting on Friday has decided to keep the repo and reverse repo rates at 4 pc and 3.5 pc respectively, the lowest-ever levels for both the benchmark rates. The decision was taken even as the MPC and...
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Macron comfortably ahead in French polls, Marine Le Pen closes gap
April 5, 2022
For long, France has been seen as amongst the most ‘socialist’ States in the western world and the anchor of socialism in European Union, with its relatively generous social security rules as well as the infamous unions and their numerous strikes and protests that have often ...
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Need to go slow on antibiotics to save lives
April 3, 2022
An alarming report published earlier this year in The Lancet, a medical journal, said that antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for 1.27 million death and linked to about 4.95 million other deaths across the world in 2019. Antimicrobial resistance is when bacteria ca...
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Repair, not replace: Key to tackling climate change
March 29, 2022
Thirungia region in Germany is offering residents up to 100 Euros for not throwing away their smartphones, but repair them and continue to use them. Similar repair bonus is also available for other consumer electronic items like laptops and domestic appliances. The scheme is soon...
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Ukraine War: Total breakdown of USA-Russia entente
February 26, 2022
After weeks of buildup of Russian military troops, accompanied by constant denials by Russian President Vladimir Putin of any aggressive intent, and amidst several warnings by the United States President Joe Biden about an impending invasion of Ukraine, a full-blown war between R...
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France brings Indo-Pacific to centre stage in European Union
February 23, 2022
Even while the global attention has been fixated on the volatile security situation in Ukraine and the mounting tensions between an increasingly assertive Russia and the Western powers, France hosted a unique gathering of almost 60 ministers and senior representatives from around...
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EU greenwashing nuclear power: Short sighted & counterproductive
February 21, 2022
After nearly half a century of being home to the world’s most high profile anti-nuclear movement, it is fashionable to be nuclear in Europe again. From Heads of States to the bureaucrats sitting in Brussels, everyone seems to have new-found love for nuclear power. Last week, Fr...
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LIC IPO: Modi on mindless selling spree
February 15, 2022
On Sunday, the government confirmed that the Life Insurance Corporation, the largest financial institution in the country, had submitted its draft red herring prospectus, a comprehensive document that is submitted to the stock market regulator by any company before its Initial Pu...
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Asio Tech delivers over 1000 Orion defence systems to Israeli Army
February 9, 2022
Asio Technologies, a global leader that has been providing advanced defence technologies to numerous forces in Israel, including Israeli defence ministry and Israeli Defence Forces for nearly two decades, says it has recently completed the delivery of a large order to the Israeli...
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Budget 2022: Blind to today’s challenges, Modi government promises Amrit Kaal in distant future
February 4, 2022
Despite the din of gushing praises showered by the numerous pro-government media as well as practically every single industrialist and business lobby that jumped as if on a cue as soon as Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2022-23, a few soun...
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