There is a Jobs emergency in the country.All political parties need to come together to tackle this crisis.“PLI to ELI” can be one such consensus idea.My @DeccanHerald column explains - https://t.co/YdDDjFu87w pic.twitter.com/716VeAaaxa— Praveen Chakravarty (@pravchak) June 30, 2024
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
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...