India

2022 - 10 - 24

India Is A Digital Finance Leader And Poised For Explosive Growth (Forbes)

We find that core digital sectors such as IT and business process management (IT-BPM), digital communication services, and electronics manufacturing could ...

The number of internet users has risen from 343 million in 2016 to 846 million in 2021 and new users are being added at over seven million per month, it added. The government’s Digital India programme has aims “to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy”. The bureaucracy seems to exist to make people’s lives tougher, because each cog in the wheel is only trying to be faithful to its own desk. Power within the bureaucracy is highly centralised, leading to delays in decisions and consequent project failures. IBEF notes that India has the youngest population globally, with an average age of 29; more than 68% of Indians are below the age of 40, out of which 70% of users are already on the internet. India’s country’s Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), launched in 2013 can take advantage of that, making delivery of benefits faster and reducing fraud. The county is connecting 50 million people to electricity each year, greater than the population of Spain. “The country is also on track to build cutting-edge metro systems in all of its major cities. “India enrolled more than one billion people in Over the past five years, India’s government expanded broadband internet infrastructure and created a public digital-payments system so everyone has a bank account as well as a secure, cloud-based digital locker to store, share, and verify documents. A United Nations model projects China’s population, 1.4 billion today, peaking in 2028, then shrinking to 700 million to 900 million by 2100. Investment analysts from Wasatch Global Investors, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, have been visiting India for more than 20 years and think it has already accomplished substantial digitization and is poised for more rapid growth.

Chinese Moves Complicate India-Bangladesh Dispute Over Teesta (The Diplomat)

Dhaka is in a dilemma; while a deal with India on the Teesta River remains elusive, Beijing wants it to make up its mind on a Chinese project on the river.

Sikkim is highly unlikely to agree to let Teesta flow freely and Banerjee would not accept any measure that would deprive her people in the northern districts. In the 2021 West Bengal assembly election, northern West Bengal emerged as the last bastion of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the eastern state, while Mamata Banerjee’s TMC held sway over most parts of the rest of the state. But people in Bangladesh allege that the Gajaldoba barrage in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal has These developments have put the governments of both India and Bangladesh in a delicate situation, as India’s relations with Bangladesh have been most friendly when Hasina has been in power. In Delhi, she only [expressed her hope](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/hope-teesta-water-sharing-issue-will-be-resolved-soon-sheikh-hasina/articleshow/94025705.cms) that the Teesta issue would be resolved soon. China proposed a major dredging work to revive the river and build strong embankments and reservoirs, without India having to play any role. There is not enough water in Teesta to share, she had Given India’s federal structure, the government of India cannot take any decision over sharing water of transboundary rivers without taking the state concerned, West Bengal in this case, into its confidence. Rather, Sikkim has plans for more dams in the pipeline. Among the biggest are the 1,200-megawatt Teesta Stage III in north Sikkim, operational since 2017, and the 500-megawatt Teesta Stage VI in lower Sikkim, which i s presently under construction. Hasina’s visit to the Indian capital was preceded by the 38th meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) in New Delhi in August. But there was no word on sharing of Teesta River’s water, not least in the official media

Virat Kohli hailed for knock in India vs Pakistan match at T20 World ... (Olympics)

Virat Kohli's match-winning 82* for India vs Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2022 drew praise from the likes of Neeraj Chopra, Sachin Tendulkar and others.

India will play the Netherlands next on Thursday. “It was a treat to watch you play, the six off the back foot in the 19th over against (Haris) Rauf over long on was spectacular! I am really lost for words,” Virat Kohli said while receiving his ‘Player of the Match’ award.

REACTION: Kohli's classic 'one of India's best knocks, not just his ... (The Roar)

India captain Rohit Sharma has hailed Virat Kohli's extraordinary match-winning knock as one of the greatest in the country's proud cricket history.

He posted the staggering knock “was undoubtedly the best innings of your life. “Definitely his best, but I think from the situation we were in and to come out (with) victory, I think it has to be one of India’s best knocks, not just his best. It was a treat to watch you play, the six off the back foot in the 19th over against Rauf over long on was spectacular.”

“The shot of an emperor”: Kohli imperious as India edges Pakistan in ... (SEN)

Virat Kohli was at his imperious best as India pulled off a thrilling win over Pakistan in their T20 World Cup opener on Sunday evening.

But to come out and chase that score was an extremely brilliant effort from Virat, and then obviously Hardik (Pandya) played a role there as well.” “The man is a genius. “But from the situation we were in - and to come out with a victory - I think it has to be one of India's best knocks (too), not just his best. Another wide, setting up a run to win off the final ball with Ravi Ashwin scooping a single to mid-off, sending fans of the light blue persuasion into delirium and reducing Kohli to tears. “A straight six down the ground to the cloaking on the seats.” “Kohli stands his ground, straight down the ground, he lifted it up - that is the shot of an emperor.

India, Pakistan and a bonkers final over: How Kohli pulled off victory ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The last over encapsulated the mess and noise of the all-too-rare meetings between India and Pakistan on the cricket field. How did it get to that point?

But in front of 90,293 spectators at the MCG, he was happy to admit that the former masterpiece had been trumped. “When the situation was such that you had to hit the big ones, I changed my bat, I was playing with a lighter bat because all three of them were bowling 145km/h-plus. Incredibly, the no-ball, the wides and the byes off the free hit turned 13 off three to two off two, then after Karthik’s exit, one off one. The second was a simpler affair, but undoubtedly the product of the previous shot’s audacity. Kohli and Pandya’s exploratory batting featured the running of plenty of twos to those square expanses, as Pakistan’s fielders hung back on the boundary in hope for catches that never came. But when it got to 28 required off eight balls, with the speedy Haris Rauf needing just two more tight balls to complete an exemplary spell, Kohli was left with no other option but to figure a way of going straight. I love having a score on the board because it allows you to kind of understand the conditions, understand the dimensions of the ground, understand the bowling attack, and then know exactly what to do at what stage. Pandya clumped two sixes and Kohli one, two of these sent flying into the heaving crowd on the shorter straight boundary. And I like these challenges, I take a lot of pride in them. And when did Virat Kohli turn a battling, halting stay into the best performance of his Twenty20 career? And critically for the game’s future, it may have been the most streamed game of cricket yet. The over encapsulated the mess and noise of the all-too-rare meetings between India and Pakistan on the cricket field – for now reserved only for world and Asia cups.

'Extremely brilliant': Kohli's stunner India's best ever (NEWS.com.au)

Indian captain Rohit Sharma declares Virat Kohli MCG stunner his country's best ever ... As the world revels in a Virat Kohli masterclass, his captain says it ...

Those two sixes off Haris Rauf, I think that was the turning point. “Of course it was not an easy situation. “He used his experience today more than anything else, staying calm under pressure, and we know how good he is when the score is in front of him. “I think it has to go ... He was fresh, got a brilliant hundred there, got a couple of fifties if I’m not wrong. “I honestly don’t think he was struggling with form or anything.