Towards the end of a tumultuous trading year, India’s goods exports jumped 11.9% in February, marking the healthiest uptick in 20 months. It is remarkable that this spurt, significantly higher than the average export tally of $35.4 billion in the first ten months of this year, comes amid persistent concerns about disruptions in the Red Sea and the drought-hit Panama …
In the old days — just over a week ago — the burqa-sellers of Kabul were doing a less-than-booming business. When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, a five-year reign that came to a close in 2001, women risked being whipped by Taliban enforcers if they dared venture out without donning a burqa, the full-body, full-face covering whose mesh eyepiece offers …
Panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh should have happened last year. In 2005 too, panchayat election in Uttar Pradesh was held after the high court’s intervention — that is, two of four panchayat elections required judicial order. The Uttar Pradesh panchayat election is being held at four levels — gram panchayat, gram pradhan, block panchayat and zila panchayat. With such high …
Here is some relief coming in for the staff of Jet Airways, which has grounded its operations on April 19, after lenders refused it emergency funds to keep its operations going. Jet's rival SpiceJet has absorbed nearly 1,000 of the former's staff, according to SpiceJet chairman Ajay Singh. The grounded airline's CEO, Vinay Dube, told staff that all efforts by …