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Nov 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Chaitanya Kumar
Chaitanya Kumar·Follow4 min read·--After becoming bored with visiting Asian countries, we decided to go to the West for our next trip and chose to visit a country in Europe. After conducting research, we have finalised Austria, the imperial country, as our destination for October 2024. We have booked round-trip tickets from Bangalore to Vienna for a 10-day trip. The plan is to visit another country after we obtain our visa. The visa process is relatively straightforward.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
lbc.co.uk | Chaitanya Kumar
The Chancellor was bold in redefining public debt - but she needed to be more courageous in taxing the wealthiest 30 October 2024, 17:12 | Updated: 30 October 2024, 17:28 I wish Rachel Reeves had been courageous enough to make sure the wealthiest pay their fair share of tax. Picture: Alamy By Chaitanya Kumar The chancellor took the bold and correct decision of redefining public debt to enable her to spend on vital public infrastructure.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
leftfootforward.org | Chaitanya Kumar
Chaitanya Kumar, is head of environment and economy at the New Economics FoundationAs the autumn budget draws closer, all eyes are on Rachel Reeves, with anticipation and a cautious optimism that this will be a landmark budget for the UK. Facing pressing challenges—from cost-of-living pressures to the urgency of climate action—the chancellor has a unique opportunity to set the country on a course toward greater resilience, better living standards and ecological sustainability.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
neweconomics.org | Chaitanya Kumar
Blog As the Chancellor weighs up making changes to the fiscal rules, we take a look at some of the available options The government’s fiscal rules have moved up the agenda significantly in recent weeks. From the preserve of academics and think tanks, the term now features regularly in newspaper headlines and broadcast bulletins. Meanwhile, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) has just this week called on the Chancellor to reconsider her fiscal rules and address...
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
ips-journal.eu | Chaitanya Kumar
The United Kingdom is on the precipice of a very exciting era. After more than 150 years, the country that triggered the industrial revolution with the advent of coal is closing down its last remaining coal plant in 2024. After a steady increase in use for over a century, the decline came rapidly with a mix of carbon taxes and renewable energy finally driving this dirty source of energy out of the system, likely forever.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
ipg-journal.de | Chaitanya Kumar
Das Vereinigte Königreich steht am Anfang einer sehr spannenden Ära. Über 150 Jahre, nachdem das Land die industrielle Revolution mit dem Aufkommen der Kohle in Gang gesetzt hatte, wird 2024 das letzte Kohlekraftwerk stillgelegt. Nach jahrzehntelangem Anstieg der Kohlenutzung ist diese plötzlich rapide zurückgegangen, da CO2-Steuern und erneuerbare Energien diese schmutzige Energiequelle – wahrscheinlich für immer – aus dem System gedrängt haben.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
neweconomics.org | Chaitanya Kumar
Blog Thousands of jobs are threatened at a Scunthorpe steel foundry, highlighting the need for a just transition The UK steel industry is back in the news again, with impending decisions by British Steel and Tata to lay off thousands of workers as the companies transition to greener production methods. The hollowing out of UK manufacturing is a familiar story that has left behind a legacy of mistrust in former industrial areas. There is a risk that the same mistakes are repeated after the...
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
neweconomics.org | Chaitanya Kumar
Blog Brits support the principle that polluters must pay, but we need to to see the benefits of carbon taxes too Tax is a simple and effective way of reducing the impact of pollution on people while holding polluters accountable. The UK’s carbon tax has had a considerable impact over the last decade. The UK Carbon Price Support (CPS) was an additional tax on polluters, primarily power generators, introduced in 2013 above the market price set by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). At a...
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com | Kiran Kumar |Jaya Prakash |Chaitanya Kumar |Nagwan Abdel
The proposed work mostly focused on developing a data modeling framework with the intention of giving more relevant data to the input of the learning algorithm for the purpose of making an early prediction of type-2 diabetes among individuals. The proposed work is implemented in five main stages: Dataset preparation, data Pre-processing, data modeling framework, data splitting, and classification (using Ml/customized DL), presented in Fig. 1.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
neweconomics.org | Alex Chapman |Chaitanya Kumar
Publications Meeting net-zero targets while protecting households against future price shocks Download the report The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) is a proposal from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to reform the UK’s energy billing system. The NEG involves a new energy billing structure which lowers and fixes the price paid by households on their essential energy needs. A higher price is then charged by retailers for higher levels of usage. The policy is accompanied by a simple set of...
