Aurangzeb attempted to form a navy fleet in Kashmir which would rival the European countries. Two ships were built and were launched in Dal Lake. (Book: A short history of India and the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nepal and Burma by James Talboys Wheeler, 1899)

From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Dust: AI’s Brutal Wake-Up Call for India 🚨 India’s much-celebrated demographic dividend is on the verge of becoming demographic debt — and AI is holding the trigger. In a hard-hitting piece, investor Shankar Sharma warns that the very

"By 2025, more than one in four households are worse-off relative to their 2014 position. The data suggest an economy marked less by broad-based upward progress and more by growing vulnerability and uneven gains." This is how bad it is.

Any two countries go to war Indians students :

With Iran’s retaliatory strikes, Israelis have now discovered new terms like “international law” & “war crimes” and are even using them in sentences.

New evidence suggests India misestimated annual economic growth rate during the past two decades. Growth in boom years 2005-2011 may have been underestimated by ~1–1.5 percentage points, & growth from 2012-2023 overestimated by ~1.5-2 percentage points. piie.com/publications/w…

Damn!

67% of India's #unemployed youth are #graduates: Report Data showed that around 67% of unemployed youth in 2023 (around 1.1 crore) in the country were graduates, up from 32% in 2004 (30 lakh). More details 🔗toi.in/kw4_Jb

Wishing everyone a Happy Eid 🌙

In 1973, the oil embargo lasted 5m & caused a decade of stagflation. The world was not globalized & things were sourced locally. 1) Today the ENERGY CONTENT of products around you is much much higher than 1973. 2) The West has too much DEBT so impossible to fight stagflation.

Stock market party is over for the bachcha party My Paisanomics column for the Mumbai Mirror. The BSE 500 – which is a good representation of the overall Indian stock market – has fallen 8 per cent during March. The bachcha party, which has grown up listening to financial

India's GDP Growth Rate May Dip by 4% if Iran War Continues - Moody’s A note on the Asia-Pacific region by Moody’s Analytics said China and South Korea would also be deeply impacted by a prolonged war in West Asia.

Jammu & Kashmir has lost 315 lakes since 1967 Jammu and Kashmir has lost nearly 3,000ha of lakes since 1967. The decline contributed to the devastating 2014 Kashmir floods, states a Comptroller and Auditor General of India report. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jammu-ka…

Sixteenth Finance Commission has taken liberties with the constitutional framework and spirit of federalism. Decentralisation is being used to cannibalise fiscal federalism. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

University of Jammu contemplating dropping Iqbal from its academic curriculum is not just tragic; it is also ironic. For the same University once provided space and support for the most authoratative biography of Iqbal to be written on its campus! tribuneindia.com/news/comment/m…

India is likely to witness a below-average monsoon this year, adding pressure on farmers who are already facing higher input costs following the Middle East conflict bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Breaking News: War in the Middle East has upended the global economy, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report, raising the possibility of a worldwide recession. nyti.ms/4cH3umC

India's burden of cancer cases is mounting. It has the third highest number of cases globally. At the same time, the promise of health is forcing people to shell out as much as Rs 1.5 lakh for a single shot. But what if the medicine inside the vial is fake. That's precisely what