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Indian Budget 2016
February 29, 2016
The 2016 Indian Budget, presented on Monday by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is first focused on a rural economy that still needs some boosting. It aims also at further reforms to accelerate investments, while keeping the public deficit at 3.5% of the Gross Domestic Product. And...
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Emerging markets
February 26, 2016
India has just taken up the presidency of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) group. It has become the strongest economic performer of this heterogeneous ensemble, with the highest growth and the most readable investment context among these five countries. Sinc...
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Netflix finally launched in India
January 8, 2016
The world famous video service platform Netflix has now fully buffered in India. On the day of its launch, the Internet saw a gush of updates from the youth about the same. Netflix was finally launched in India and in 129 other countries on 6th January and the people, especially ...
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Climate Change Meet, Paris
January 6, 2016
Global leaders, businesses and several others have gone to town over the ‘unprecedented’ achievements during the global negotiations in Paris to curb global warming. Yet, not much besides big headlines seems to have been achieved The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
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The Awe of Angkor
October 28, 2015
Built between 800-1300 AD, the sprawl of the ruins of Angkor Wat covering an area of over 400 square kilometres, is arguably one of the world’s largest awe inspiring ancient cities. I was trying very hard to suppress my inner Indiana Jones actually. I’ve always been partial t...
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