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Be prepared- Recession is coming.

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  The latest report showed that the GDP growth of India has been contracted by 23.9 per cent which is among the worst GDP growth in the world . India has never recorded a negative GDP in the last four decades and it is expected that the situation will become much worse in the coming days. Added to this the unemployment rate is highest and is touching 10 per cent which has become a very alarming situation for the country. Millions of employees have lost their jobs. There is unrest among the youth and religious tensions have increased. Also, our relations with our neighbouring country is not healthy. We have land disputes with Pakistan, China, and Nepal. The investor's trust is decreasing day by day, and the government is privatising the profit-making PSUs to compensate the deficit. All this have not happened in just one day or is because of the COVID pandemic but it is a result of long-term bad policymaking and implementation. I will not go deep into the analysis of Policy or talk a

Lesser known facts about our former President Pranab Mukherjee

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  My heart is filled with pain to hea r about the demise of our former President Pranab Mukherjee today. He was a true gentleman and a great leader. I still remember his speech at IIM, Ahmedabad in 2015 which brought goosebumps. I was really inspired by his vision for innovations and concern for economic growth. Today I would love to share some fewer known facts about our “dada”. Apart from Politics, he had also worked as a Professor at Vidyanagar College in West Bengal and Journalist Deshkar Dak Magazine. Having the blood of a freedom fighter, he had always been interested in serving the countrymen, so he joined politics. He was close to Indira Gandhi and became the Member of Parliament through Rajya Sabha. After the death of Indira Gandhi, he started his own party Rashtriya Samajwadi Party but later again joined Congress. He was among the most versatile minister of India and handled four major ministries like Defence, Finance Commerce, and Foreign. He was voted as the best Finance Mi