India’s Informal Sector - The Feeder Economy Within

By all appearances, the 2024 general elections was projected – most of all by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its allies, and significant sections o

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India's road network carries close to 90 per cent of the country's passenger traffic and about 60 per cent of its freight. This sector also includes t

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India's political discourse, which reached a national characteristic during the freedom struggle, has travelled through several phases since Independe

For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier,

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