The Reserve Bank’s decision to keep key policy rates unchanged will lead to continuation of low interest rates on home loans and support ongoing recovery of housing demand, according to property developers and consultants. Welcoming the RBI policy, CREDAI President Harshvardhan Patodia said, the “RBI’s accommodative stance on keeping the ... Read More »
As shown globally, fresh approaches will lead to improved outcomes for the public If there ever was a time for thinking innovatively about policy, that time is now. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present this year’s Union Budget amidst a slowing economy, lower-than expected tax revenues, and a fiscally stretched ... Read More »
Ministerial Development Council reviews UAE’s policy for educational professionals. Ministerial Development Council presided over by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, discussed on Sunday the policy for educational professionals in the UAE in line with the government’s continuous effort to advance the ... Read More »
A first review makes for a collective sigh of relief – the draft report of the new National Education Policy 2019 is devoid of any strong saffron colouration and is instead a call for a significant restructuring of the educational system and its governance. It assigns a key role to ... Read More »
Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Friday it was imposing a EUR 3 million ($3.3 million or roughly Rs. 35 crores) fine on messaging service WhatsApp for allegedly obliging users to agree to sharing their personal data with its parent company Facebook. All 28 European Union data protection authorities asked WhatsApp ... Read More »
Progress, innovation and technology stop for no one. But here we are, three weeks into the Presidency of Donald Trump, and he has yet to appoint any leadership for the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). Yes, the President needs to find a new National Security Advisor and Secretary ... Read More »
Shortly after the end of his inaugural parade, President Donald Trump issued his first executive order: instructions for the federal government to dismantle the Affordable Care Act “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” The executive order is a powerful political statement about the health care law, one that directs ... Read More »
Senate Democrats hit Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, on all sides at her confirmation hearing Tuesday night. But the question that made her look worst required her to demonstrate a basic understanding of education policy — a test DeVos failed. Sen. Al Franken asked DeVos to explain ... Read More »
Interest rate sensitive shares from the sectors such as banking, automobiles and real estate were in focus ahead of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting due later in the day. A majority of the nearly 60 analysts polled by Reuters predict the ... Read More »
NEW DELHI — According to the Narendra Modi government, using the word “sex” in a government document for framing policy on sex education for school students can “offend” people. Even though it is unclear who these “people” are, reported The Telegraph, the human resource development (HRD) ministry asked an expert ... Read More »
New Delhi: TSR Subramanian shot back into the limelight recently when RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for a re-look into the New Education Policy framed by a panel headed by him. A week after that, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar took the first major decision on the new “no-detention” policy, one ... Read More »
The minutes of the Indian central bank’s maiden monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting, released on Tuesday, showed that broad concerns over economic growth and relief from the pullback in inflation, spurred the bank’s recent rate cut decision. The minutes from the 2-day meeting on October 3-4, which saw all six ... Read More »
