Samrat Sharma

Aug 24, 2023 | msn.com | Samrat Sharma

India's manufacturing sector depends heavily on the auto industry, and South Africa plays a crucial role in boosting it as it is the largest importer of Indian cars. In the financial year 2022-23, cars worth US$ 1.54 billion were sold to South Africa, which was 17.7 percent of the total vehicles India exported that year. It is not that South Africa always played an essential role in India's trade. In 2016-17, it accounted for only 7.5 percent of India's overall car exports.

Aug 22, 2023 | msn.com | Samrat Sharma

To achieve its aim to become the third largest economy globally, India has to fire all cylinders on the economic front. And boosting financial inclusion will be a determining factor. While formal finance can boost job creation and reduce vulnerability to economic shocks, it can also support sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth for all at a macro level, a Reserve Bank of India report on National Strategy for Financial Inclusion noted.

Aug 14, 2023 | msn.com | Samrat Sharma

China, which holds one of the largest shares in global trade, is now struggling with its crippling economy. Foreign risks, unemployment, and low demand, production and sales, are all weighing heavily on its businesses.   The country's manufacturing and trade have been facing hardships for quite some time with manufacturing sentiments in both mainland China and Taiwan contracting in July. In contrast, India's manufacturing sentiments were at the highest among major Asian countries at the same time.

Jul 31, 2023 | msn.com | Samrat Sharma

Indians bear the brunt of high prices both directly and indirectly. If inflation rises domestically, retail inflation grows and the burden of high prices is directly passed on to the end consumers. However, if prices grow in advanced economies, their central banks raise interest rates and that strengthens the dollar or their currencies and weakens the rupee, eventually. This, in turn, makes India's imports expensive and prices within the country rise again.

Jul 27, 2023 | nuclear-news.net | Samrat Sharma |Christina MacPherson

Oppenheimer and nuclear energy: Is India and the world moving away from this power source? Nuclear energy has grabbed headlines ever since Christopher Nolan’s biographical film “Oppenheimer” was released. However, the world now making a gradual shift towards solar energyInia Today, Samrat Sharma, New Delhi, Jul 26, 2023With the release of Christopher Nolan’s biographical film “Oppenheimer”, the awesome power of nuclear energy is once again under the spotlight………….