Last year, the approximately 20 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) remitted $69 bn to India. That is 3% of the GDP. This ensured the Current Account Deficit remained within the 2% range, as opposed to what should have been 5%. Per Capital Economics, a research group, remittances will further rise by 5-6% in future and the Current account deficit will remain within 2.5% of GDP.
Swami Dhirendra Shastri called for a meat-free Navratri in Bengal. Parties answered by invoking Shakta tradition. A restricted rite, stripped of its disciplines, has become “culture”, and Bengal uses its first taste of political freedom in decades to flaunt the very decay that helped undo it.
Moscow saw a rare confluence. CIA Director Ratcliffe to warn Putin, Vatican Foreign Minister Gallagher to stop Ukraine war, Indian Foreign Minister with a special message from PM Modi. Meanwhile Russia has destroyed "90% Warehouses" in Ukraine.
