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    From laggard to leader, the journey has just begun for Uttar Pradesh

    2020-03-04T07:04:21+00:00March 16th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition- March 2018, State Focus, Year|

    The Yogi Adityanath government has set its ambitions very high. But its goal of transforming Uttar Pradesh into an industrial powerhouse shows early signs of promise. Progressing from pauper to prince is the stuff of dreams. So, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked at a recent investor summit whether Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with a population of 200 million, could compete with Maharashtra to try and become India’s first trillion-dollar state, there were polite smiles all around. [...]

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      India emerges as world’s big defence spender

      2018-05-23T10:08:14+00:00March 16th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition- March 2018, State Focus, Year|

      India’s defence budget overtook the UK for the first time in 2017 to be counted among the world’s top five. India’s actual spend of $52.5 billion (including defence pensions) in 2017 makes it the fifth-largest in the world, overtaking the UK to reach the ‘Top 5’ slot for the first time, according to the authoritative annual ‘Military Balance 2018’ published last month by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the London-based think-tank I work for. According to the IISS, [...]

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