Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
Space a universal asset, not private property
May 31, 2021
Earlier this month, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced that it would carry Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his aide on December 8 on a 12-day trip aboard the International Space Station, which is jointly owned and operated by Russia, the United States, Japan, ...
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Second wave wipes off economic revival hopes
May 22, 2021
On April 7, after its Monetary Policy Committee meeting, the Reserve Bank of India, country’s central bank, maintained its projection for India’s GDP growth in the current fiscal at 10.5 pc, despite clear signs of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic spreading in some parts o...
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FTA with EU, potential minefield for beleaguered India
May 10, 2021
The latest EU-India Summit, held over internet on Saturday, had a very unique feature. While in the past the Summit has involved Indian Prime Minister, the head of European Council, the head of government of the country that holds the presidency of the EU at the moment of the sum...
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Pandemic second wave rages on as Modi remains missing
May 7, 2021
The last two weeks have been the bloodiest for India since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in February 2020. Practically every single day, new highs are being reported, both in fresh daily infections as well as in death toll due to the pandemic, with over 400,000 new cas...
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Time for India to cancel Jaitapur nuclear power project
May 2, 2021
On March 3, 2021, Electricité de France, EDF, the sole operator of nuclear power plants in France, informed the country’s nuclear safety body, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN), of a design anomaly on three nozzles of the main primary system of the European Pressurised R...
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From helping the world, India turns to seek help from the world
April 27, 2021
On Saturday, a C-17 Hercules transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force took off from Changi Airport in Singapore and barely a couple of hours later it landed at the IAF base at Panagarh in West Bengal. The aircraft had just completed a special and urgent mission of transporting ...
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Profiteering in pandemic panic
April 25, 2021
The gory images and heart rending stories coming from all across India over the past few weeks about the second wave of coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the country have perhaps done more to convince even the most sceptical Indians to start looking for Covid-19 vaccin...
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Le Drian visit cements preparations for Modi visit to Paris
April 17, 2021
After a pandemic-forced hiatus which put a severe limitation on high-level bilateral meetings between India and France, the two nations seem to be in a rush to catch up on the lost time and revive the momentum that has been building up in the bilateral ties over the past decade, ...
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Under Modi’s watch, India’s vaccine diplomacy turns into vaccine disaster
April 15, 2021
With India’s daily case count rising to a new high every day for about a month, the country has once again displaced Brazil from the slot of the country with the second highest incidence of Covid-19 cases. On Tuesday, India registered over 185,000 cases, a jump of 1582 pc from ...
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Automobile sales slowdown as pandemic accelerates again
April 12, 2021
Automobile dealers raise alarm over the growing strength of the second wave of coronavirus pandemic across the nation as an increasing number of states move towards partial lockdowns and numerous other restrictions. The revival of the pandemic could not have come at a worse time ...
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Global forest cover losses rise despite lockdown
April 8, 2021
The year 2020 saw a 12 pc rise in the area of tree cover lost which rose to 12.2 million hectares, says the Global Forest Watch in its report for the year. The report goes on to say that about 4.2 million hectares or a landmass equivalent to the Netherlands of virgin primary fore...
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India falls further behind China in poverty-eradication
April 2, 2021
The alarm had been sounded long ago, yet the data emerging from Pew Research Centre’s report on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global poverty is shocking for the depth of the impact and the concentration in two large economies – India and China. But between the two...
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