By results, the reference is to just one thing - quality of life. The voter wants to know exactly what this government will do for him/her, in real terms. No more bhashans, no empty promises, no fake assurances.

The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by IHS Markit, plunged to 27.4 last month from March's 51.8, by far its lowest since the survey began in March 2005 and its first time below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction in nearly three years.

The official said the government would try to swiftly address supply chain hurdles, which some fear could leave retailers without stock as wholesalers in many parts of the country are unable to resume activity.

For the manufacturing sector - domestic demand, expensive credit, cash-strapped MSMEs, high cost of setting-up and automation are the big areas of concern. Industry veterans suggest that the only way to revive demand is for the government to keep to its spending targets and streamline policies and processes.

The grim result for the industry, the engine of growth, underlines the pandemic's impact.

The IHS Markit India Services Business Activity Index plunged to 5.4 in April from 49.3 in March, an unprecedented contraction since the survey started over 14 years ago. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey, also known as Services PMI, was based responses from about 400 service sector companies collected from April 7 to 28.

Moody's had, in November 2019, downgraded India's outlook to negative from stable on concerns of lower economic growth. The agency had, however, affirmed country's 'Baa2' rating. In its update to the November forecast released on Friday, the agency said India's credit profile is supported by its large and diverse economy, and stable domestic financing base.

The May 5-7 poll median of more than 40 economists predicted India's annual consumer price inflation fell to 5.68% in April from March's 5.91%, still above the Reserve Bank of India's medium-term target of 4.00%.

I’ve been following the most interesting JavaScript blogs quite for a while now (this is a part of my job running https://weekendjs.com/). There are many of them. More than you might think. There are blogs started more than ten years ago, and there are relatively new ones. Some bloggers are JavaScript superstars, and others are regular […]

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The importance of data, it’s measurement and use in making more effective business decisions is now universally accepted across almost every industry. The training industry, however, still lags in its efforts to measure workforce development investments. Unfortunately, there are no universal standards or metrics with which to measure how well people learn, and the common […]

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You are probably aware that ECMAScript has something called Infinity, which is a numeric value that you can apply to any variable, the same way you can apply other numbers as values for variables.

Infinity of course is not the same as other numbers, so I thought I’d summarize, with examples, many of the quirks and useful facts around JavaScript Infinity and how it works.

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The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as students visas and work authorisation that accompanies them, amidst the high level of unemployment ...

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