Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy is asking the exact same question I asked in my Aug’23 piece ‘Modi’s semiconductor plan is a semi-con’

Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy is asking the exact same question I asked in my Aug’23 piece ‘Modi’s semiconductor plan is a semi-con’Why is the govt paying $2bn of taxpayer money to a $75bn US firm to create just 5000 jobs, which will be more than the lifetime wages of each worker? https://t.co/xnlgZ9c4j2 pic.twitter.com/Egx7HhJvp1— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) June 16, 2024

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The world’s first ‘Exit Poll Stock Market Scam’

Feudal to Federal Praveen Chakravarty June 09, 2024 On 31 May, there was sudden frenetic activity in India’s stock markets. The value of shares bought and sold on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) doubled from the previous day. Such an enormous spike in shares trading on one day is very rare, even when there may be a big, surprising news or development. For example, on 12 March 2020, when the World Health Organisation, declared the coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic, stock market activity rose 22% from the previous day, but even then, it did not double. Stock market trading activity last doubled...

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