Karnataka’s economy outpaces national growth despite global headwinds
Workers carry packages to be placed on shelves in an inventory storage area at the Flipkart fulfilment centre at Malur on the outskirts of Bengaluru on September 10, 2024. As of September 2024, Karnataka recorded a 10% year-on-year increase in GST collections, and a 24% surge in stamp duty revenue,
Putin’s plan to defeat the dollar
Now in their 15th year together, the original BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have achieved little. Yet at this summit Mr Putin hopes to give the bloc heft by getting it to build a new global financial-payments system to attack America’s dominance of global finance and shield