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"Demonetization"-A sneak peek into after effects.....

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World is discussing about India's Demonetization policy. Most of the people have accepted it wholeheartedly but some have defined it as debacle. It is very early to judge this Indian government initiative, which is definitely planned, futuristic and bold. The demonetization program has been evaluated in context of its short term costs and long term gains. Many international agencies has got into it but they are not certain about results such as Moody, Fitch and many more. Let's have a sneak peek into pros and cons of Demonetization. Here it becomes very important to understand the context where Government has to bring it. In last decade or so we have seen two pay commissions-6th and 7th. Approximately 30% salary rise in 6th pay commission and 23% rise on top of that in 7th one. Our defense budget has become 115% of 2000's i.e. approx. 2.5 times of our GDP rate. Now we need to realize that Government was earning very less and spending too much and continuously inc

'Data"-The Fourth basic

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India is a country with user base of 1000 million cell phone subscribers. The second largest communication network  after China, along with addition of 1 million cell phones at an average on monthly basis(courtesy: Google). Indian mobile network has aggrandized greatly since 2000. As per Google we are 3rd in world on basis of number of internet users. Though number of users is too high, internet penetration  is still much lower than most countries across the globe. Approx 34% of Indian population uses internet, which is significant 14% of world population. The exploded adoption of smart phones due to declining average selling prices is resulting in an enormous surge in number of mobile internet users in India. As per IAMAI, India had 371 million active mobile internet users by June, 2016. Out of these ,71% of estimated 371 million mobile internet users in India, belongs to urban space. Hence the rural India still holds an enormous potential to drive further growth of mobile intern

Feud in Samajwadi Party-"A rift or competency to Oscars"

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Uttar Pradesh is in lime-lights again. Reason may not sound good for Geopolitics of Samajwadi Party although chain of events happening, seems very scripted.This all started with 2016; chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mr. Akhilesh Yadav was being targeted  by everyone. His dad Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav was scolding him publicly for betterments of law and order and opposition was portraying him as a helpless CM- as they were claiming that government has 4 CMs. But by the end of 2016,miraculously things started changing. UP government made lot of investments on marketing of its policies and advertisement of work done. Lot of popular faces were associated with government schemes, suddenly Akhilesh started taking stand on various issues. Suddenly he had his own opinion about things and issues. Opposing merger of 'Qaumi Ekta Dal', Yadav singh issue and continuous tussle with uncle Shivpal Singh, were some examples of the same. All these events benefitted Akhilesh a lot and placed