Jyotika Sood

The so-called middle jobs that require average skills are diminishing and people will have to be smarter with machines. The trick is adjusting to the way society and economy are panning out

Not just bad driving but road designs, pot holes and a contentious Motor Vehicles Act make India among the top rankers in road deaths. Experts say India should adopt the UN Global Plan to reduce road accidents and fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020

In an interview to Outlook, Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari talks about the new MV Act, protests, heavy fines and centre-state conflict.

In an exclusive interview with Outlook, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Gobind Singh Longowal shares his views on the Uniform Civil Code

The Centre rolls back stringent laws, cadges money from RBI. But to fix the economy, structural flaws must be addressed.

Debt looms as a terrifying spectre. Zombie companies or corporate underachievers have doubled and even the biggest of business empires like Reliance Industries are worried and hassled

From the ubiquitous rosogolla to the Basmati rice, from Mysore silk to Kolhapuri chappals, how India's GI law is completely messed up

Reelection of a stable government has had no impact on lifting the country's economy. Slowdown started with banking and more sectors are getting impacted. Is the government really bothered?

Himachal Pradesh has set up a ­dedicated utility, Shimla Jal Prabandhan Nigam, to deal with water supply and sewerage services, which was ­earlier handled by different agencies and departments.

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said Wednesday that the central bank has lowered the GDP growth forecast for 2019-20 from 7 per cent to 6.9 per cent owing to demand and investment slowdown, which is causing dampening effect on the growth

AIIB spokesperson Laurel Ostfield told Outlook in an email response that the bank is no longer considering the Amaravati project for funding.

The Amaravati Capital City project, an ambitious project of former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, was to be co-financed by multilateral funding agency AIIB.

In 2014, former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had announced Amaravati as the proposed capital city, to be developed over many years.

The government announced that it will be skilling new India with new age skills like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things, Big Data, 3D Printing, Virtual Reality and Robotics, which are valued highly both in India and overseas.

The move will bring India in the league of developed nations like the US, the UK, Singapore and Canada who already have SSE.

The Economic Survey states that India is set to witness a sharp slowdown in population growth in the next two decades.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who will present her maiden Union budget on July 5, faces two major challenges- bringing back economy on track and creating new jobs.

Pre-Budget Analysis: With a second term to Narendra Modi and his government, and the current term’s fiscal journey starting next week, it remains to be seen what measures the government will take to achieve the goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022-23.

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