A few states recorded retail inflation above the Reserve Bank of India’s( RBI) ’s medium-term target of 4 per cent in March.... Meanwhile, Telangana at 1.06 per cent recorded the lowest print in March.... Only states with a population of more than 5 million, according to the 2011 census have been taken into consideration....

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The country's power consumption grew by 8.4 per cent to 139 billion units in July this year compared to the same month last year.... The power ministry had estimated the country's electricity demand to touch 229 GW during the summer season.... Power consumption was affected in March, April, May and June this year due to widespread rains in the country....

Of clear morning the beams of the sunrise flow in,Unimpeded, keen, golden and crystalline,Banded armies of light and air at one gateThey encounter, but interpenetrate. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A vision of the sea”With South Africa’s chairmanship in the BRICS this year and the 10th BRICS summit expec

India and the 10-nation bloc Asean on Monday said they have directed their officials to intensify their efforts to conclude the review of the existing free trade agreement in goods between the two regions by 2025.... According to a joint media statement, the meeting welcomed the progress of the review of the Asean-India Trade in Goods Agreement( AITIGA).... Both sides agreed to make the agreement more user-friendly, simple and trade facilitative for businesses to increase trade and support sus

The development of the Americentric vision of Indo-Pacific threatens to make the split within ASEAN even deeper, and to undermine its fundamental commitment to geopolitical non-alignment. In this regard, ASEAN’s promotion of its own vision of Indo-Pacific is as an attempt to retain a central role i

The near term priorities for the expanded NDB will need to focus on countering the pandemic crisis. This in turn raises the importance of sectors such as healthcare, digital economy development and other projects that are related to the development of human capital.

the SCO is witnessing increasing interest from the developing nations and one of the near-term issues concerns the possible expansion in the organization’s membership in the coming years as well as the possible creation of SCO development institutions. Valdai Club Programme Director Yaroslav Lissov

Against the backdrop of geopolitical adversities and global growth increasingly susceptible to bouts of protectionism (the IMF revised down the global growth GDP estimate for 2018 on the back of the rising risks of protectionism), the world is gearing up for the G-20 meeting in Argentina that is to

The possibilities offered by the “integration of integrations” track for BRICS+ are substantial, provided that such a platform is open, inclusive and ensures connectivity across regional integration arrangements – this will deliver the much needed “multiplier effect” in the process of economic coope