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RAAMDEO AGRAWAL |
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Sensex at 150,000 by 2029: The Ultimate Compounding Machine -- 10-Apr-24
The Dalal Street benchmark doubled to 75,000 in under five years supported by the trinity of flows, sentiments and fundamentals.
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Time to Let Loose NR Rs. -- 09-Apr-24
There comes a stage in everyone’s life when one must choose between the safety of home and excitement of the world outside.
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Shivaji Dasgupta |
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Isn't This Brand Fratricide? -- 08-Apr-24
It’s incredulous Tatas didn’t anticipate Vistara’s response, providing fodder for conspiracy theory.
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Siddharth Shah |
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Better Late Than Never -- 01-Apr-24
After keeping the AIF industry on tenterhooks since its circular of December 19, 2023, addressing the issue of ‘evergreening’ by regulated entities (REs) using AIF structures.
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Don’t Resurrect Death Tax -- 28-Mar-24
Last week, there was much consternation when filings revealed that N R Narayana Murthy had gifted his grandson ?240 cr worth of Infosys shares.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Why US Allows Pak Double Games -- 27-Mar-24
Where does Pakistan figure these days in the US scheme of things? Yes, it remains important, but for all the wrong reasons
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Rita McGrath & M Muneer |
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Gig Workers Aren’t Bots -- 26-Mar-24
Platform workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your algorithmic chains
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Prashant Maheshwari & Chandresh Ruparel |
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SAHI Jawab for Insurance -- 26-Mar-24
India’s insurance industry is transforming rapidly, with health insurance driving this shift. Irdai’s decisions have been customer-centric, moving from a rule-based to a principle-based regime.
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Boria Majumdar |
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Who'll Win Election vs IPL? -- 22-Mar-24
The tournament will be vying with India’s biggest ‘game’ over the next two months starting today
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Zohra Calcuttawala |
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WORLD WATER DAY -- 22-Mar-24
Acute water shortage is a fact of life in most Indian cities. Bengaluru’s dire water crisis is just another drop in the bucket of apocalyptic stories of water stress.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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eVROOM, eVROOM, TESLA -- 21-Mar-24
The new EV policy is a boon for the sector and aligns perfectly with India’s net-zero ambition
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Big Tech, Don’t Be a Big Brother -- 21-Mar-24
On March 15, CCI ordered an investigation into Google’s Play Store billing policies, saying that the tech giant has prima facie violated the Competition Act.
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Harsh V Pant |
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In the Court of Ra-Ra-Tsar Putin -- 20-Mar-24
Vladimir Putin is on a roll. Again. He has won another landslide victory in what can be called ‘democratic elections with Russian characteristics’, gaining his fifth term in office as prez.
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Vaibhav Choukse |
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Go Easy With the Digital Lasso -- 20-Mar-24
The draft Digital Competition Bill (DCB), a groundbreaking legislation aimed at establishing a level playing field in the digital ecosystem, is causing unease in the tech sector.
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Subimal Bhattacharjee |
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FINDING FEKUMON -- 19-Mar-24
How is Election Commission preparing for the new challenge of the Misinformation Monster?
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Akshay Rout |
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Polls, Put the Kettle On -- 19-Mar-24
India is already off to a start for its 18th general elections, with the recent appointment of two new election commissioners
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Ashok Malik |
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Where the Fin ger Points -- 18-Mar-24
Post-polls, expect economic transformation and overhaul of the citizen-state interface.
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Pranjul Bhandari |
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Streaming Investments into India -- 18-Mar-24
There's a mystery afoot : India is rising on the world stage, and its engagement in terms of market share in global trade has also been on the rise.
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Manish Sabharwal & Ramesh A Reddy |
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Plug Skills to Financing Skills -- 18-Mar-24
Amartya Sen hasn’t been happy with India lately. But he’s surely smiling at the diminishing ‘son preference’ in Haryana and UP, which were significant contributors to the 100 million missing girls in Asia he insightfully flagged decades ago.
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Nikhil Pahwa |
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBOT -- 15-Mar-24
AI regulation must be more nuanced than set out in GOI's half-baked advisory.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Ujjwala Burning Bright? -- 15-Mar-24
On March 7, GOI announced the extension of Rs.300 per LPG cylinder subsidy to poor women under PM Ujjwala Scheme.
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Gauri Puranik |
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Speak in Many Tongues -- 14-Mar-24
In an era of unparalleled connectivity and diverse global interactions, language education is a critical cornerstone in preparing a versatile and adept workforce.
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Seema Sirohi |
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'They Love Us, They...' -- 13-Mar-24
Calculations, compromises and caveats are normal stuff of diplomacy. And weighing them correctly at any given time is high skill. While a serious mistake can be managed, ripples it sends through the system are not as easily contained.
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Jai Arjun Singh |
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RECREATING CREATION -- 12-Mar-24
This year’s Oscar winners showcase the creative process — in art, science and relationships
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Choice Isn’t Always the Best Option -- 12-Mar-24
What a difference a preposition makes. An RBI directive slated to go live on September 6 will transfer the privilege of choosing a card network — Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club or RuPay
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Poonam Gupta |
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How to Pull Out of the Trap -- 11-Mar-24
What can Bihar, with per-capita income 30% of national average, do to shed its low-income status?
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Jan Christian Vestre |
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A Vinner Takes-It-All Agreement -- 11-Mar-24
How can Norway join India in its strides towards the future, contribute to its ambitious climate goals, learn from the Indian story and knowledge, and, at the same time, bring Norway’s experience and expertise to this vast landscape?
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Rajiv Kumar & Jay Dev Dubey |
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Make It a Monetisation Nation -- 11-Mar-24
GoI's focus on raising capex, indicative of its commitment to remedying infra and energy deficit, is noteworthy.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Which Gramp’ll Be Champ? -- 07-Mar-24
After Super Boring Tuesday, Americans wait to be swayed by, and away from, prez’n’ex-prez
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Rajyasree Sen |
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Surviving Mega-Meta-Meltdown -- 07-Mar-24
Something terrible happened the other night. On Tuesday night around 9, users found themselves logged out and locked out of their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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Alarm Those Profiteers? -- 06-Mar-24
It was widely perceived that the antiprofiteering mechanism set up under the GST regime was an initial nudge aimed to ensure that companies passed on the ‘benefit’ — be it a fall in tax rates, or an enhanced input tax credit —arising from the GST roll-out to the end consumer by way of commensurate reduction in prices.
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Don't Lead Us to the AItar -- 05-Mar-24
Instead of hyperventilating, hyper-regulating, GoI & users mustn’t have unrealistic expectations
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Pradeep S Mehta |
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Let's Move Après Abu Dhabi -- 05-Mar-24
The recently concluded WTO MC13 in Abu Dhabi would have collapsed like the 1999 Seattle and 2003 Cancun rounds had it not been for WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and GoI trade minister Piyush Goyal.
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Indu Bhushan |
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Make Population Problem -- 04-Mar-24
With India’s demography evolving, devise robust policies to harness its potential and attain Viksit Bharat
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Balram Singh Yadav |
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We Can Oil Palm It Off -- 04-Mar-24
With 1 hectare of oil palm plantation producing up to 8 times more than any other leading oilseed crop, economic benefits of cultivating the plant
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Sanjeev Krishan |
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Continuity’s the Name of the Game -- 05-Feb-24
Continuity of policies is a characteristic of a mature economy.
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Dhanendra Kumar & Navneet Sharma |
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Not Complete Without Competition -- 05-Feb-24
Competition is the life force of a market economy.
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Deepak Mishra |
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GoI, G20fy for Reforms -- 24-Jan-24
'If Prime Minister Modi can get all the G20 leaders to agree to the communiqué in the midst of a raging war and unprecedented geopolitical fragmentation, why can’t he get similar consensus for his economic reform agenda at home?’ aG20 delegate innocently asked, as the New Delhi G20 Summit in September was reaching its climax.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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OpenAI and Its Discontents -- 19-Jan-24
To tackle content from being exploited & compromised by AI, countries must enact protective laws
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Varun Gandhi |
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Prick the Inflation Balloon -- 19-Jan-24
India’s inflation was between 5.5-6.4% in December 2023, led by a spike in food prices that averaged 5.4% in Q3 FY23.
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Anjuli Bhargava |
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Time We Have the Foggiest -- 18-Jan-24
Arsenal for this annual war needs urgent beefing up so that Dec 2023-Jan 2024 isn’t repeated
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Seema Sirohi |
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See Ya, Mr Ambassador -- 17-Jan-24
Farewells are never easy. But as H W Longfellow wrote, ‘Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.’ India’s ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu ends his tenure with a slate of successes not easily matched, and a list of friends hard to duplicate.
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Handle AI's Toxic Creativity -- 16-Jan-24
The technology is obviously useful — but it's vital to know, and fix, the dangers it can pose.
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Madan Sabnavis |
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Spur a Deposit Boom -- 16-Jan-24
The concept of external benchmark lending rate (EBLR), which helps in faster transmission of repo rate changes, is unique to India.
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Amarjeet Sinha |
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Addressing Inequality Through Quality Public Systems, Goods -- 15-Jan-24
It is time to make macro data reflect in micro realities of every household through higher incomes and productivity; compromises with environment can never lead to happier lives.
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Harsh V Pant |
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Taiwan Talks Strait -- 15-Jan-24
Democracy is a powerful instrument to underscore the illegitimacy of authoritarian nations.
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Vivek Singh & Aashish Chandorkar |
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Viksit Bharat's Key Element Will Be a Strong Middleware -- 11-Jan-24
The term ‘Viksit Bharat’ conjures up discussions on economic definitions and terminologies, with focus on GDP.
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Sumeysh Srivastava |
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Let's Keep the Lines Clear -- 11-Jan-24
The Telecommunications Bill 2023, which was passed in December, has had mixed reactions.
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Indrani Bagchi |
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Be a Shelter from the Storm -- 26-Dec-23
With the world in a flux, India should take a stab at defining this beast called ‘rules-based order’
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Ajay Piramal & Debopam Chaudhuri |
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NBFCs, Keep This Spare Tyre Handy -- 26-Dec-23
FCs have been integral to India’s formal credit system since Independence, complementing banks in distributing credit.
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Anjana Menon |
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Still Wrestling With Our Demons -- 26-Dec-23
Giving up on a year-long battle for justice against an alleged sexual predator, India’s top wrestler and an Olympic medallist, Sakshi Malik, hung up her boots last week in disgust.
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Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha |
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Big Scoop of a Big Spoon -- 25-Dec-23
Leverage Big Data to improve logistic efficiency — it’ll cut costs, unclog chokepoints, boost productivity
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Prashant Singhal |
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Telecom Bill, 2023 -- 25-Dec-23
The Telecommunications Bill 2023 is astep in the right direction. One of the most anticipated outcomes of the new Act is the provision for administrative assignment of spectrum for satellite services.
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Mike Bloomberg, NChandrasekaran & Shemara Wikramanayake |
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PPPlanetary Rescue Mission -- 01-Dec-23
Public-private partnerships are the way to go for real climate action beyond good intentions
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Prakash Balakrishnan |
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It’s America, Stupid! -- 30-Nov-23
Winston Churchill famously called Russia ‘a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma’. Economists studying the data flows from the US may be tempted to borrow the phrase to describe the US economy.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Precious, Tricky Spots -- 29-Nov-23
Earlier this month, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its Emissions Gap Report 2023.
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Kunal Bahl |
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Dear Adventure Capitalists -- 28-Nov-23
A few observations—tips, if you will—for early-stage startup investors to cherry-pick wisely
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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GoI, KoBoldly Forward -- 28-Nov-23
GoI is working hard to attract Elon Musk’s Tesla to invest in India. It is a worthwhile exercise to court a company that is at the cutting edge of electric vehicles and associated technologies like batteries and energy storage.
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Manisha Girotra |
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Eminent Rise of M&As -- 27-Nov-23
India’s corporate terrain is undergoing asignificant transformation as Indian conglomerates drive M&A activity, a field traditionally dominated by MNCs and PE firms.
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Rajesh Shukla |
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Destabilise the Pyramid -- 24-Nov-23
Welfare delivery has improved vastly. Yet, there remain many who need pulling out of the bottom tier
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Raj S Joshi |
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Keep DigiWolves at Bay -- 24-Nov-23
Cyfirma’s India Threat Landscape Report 2023, released earlier this month, has warnings for the country’s cybersecurity framework:
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Mudar Patherya |
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Sad, But Not Ahmedabad -- 23-Nov-23
Compared to the likes of Kolkata's Eden Gardens, Motera's spectators were downright civil
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Arpit Chug |
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Rule of 40, for IPO Investor Looks -- 22-Nov-23
BSE data reveal that India witnessed 92 IPOs this year. More than 25 companies submitted their draft IPO papers to Sebi in the third quarter.
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Seema Sirohi |
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When Xi Went All Xmiley Face -- 22-Nov-23
Last week’s US-China summit was designed for limited results. Joe Biden met Xi Jinping for four hours outside San Francisco, took a stroll and seemed to make nice.
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RAAMDEO AGRAWAL |
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Get Your Investment Frameworks Right to Beat the Market -- 21-Nov-23
There was a time in my equity investing journey when all I knew was Price = EPS × P/E. Thus, the lower the P/E of a stock, the more attractive it is. This was in the early ’80s.
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Shailesh Chandra |
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EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE -- 21-Nov-23
Air pollution is an India-wide problem. A recent World Bank policy research paper has found that rising air pollution reduces India’s year-on-year GDP growth by 0.56 percentage points.
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Manish Maheshwari |
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Control+AItman+Delete? -- 20-Nov-23
The OpenAI CEO’s ouster has consequences for AI’s future in general, in India in particular
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V Anantha Nageswaran, Chandni Raina & Geetu Joshi |
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How to Line Up the SDG Money -- 20-Nov-23
Sustainable development is essential not only for the well-being of future generations and preservation of ecosystems but also to meet the aspirations of the present generation.
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Anand Vasu |
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To Fight Another One-Day -- 20-Nov-23
ODI cricket is dead. Long live ODIs. This has been the refrain off and on for months leading into the ICC World Cup in India.
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Soumya Kanti Ghosh |
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Mis-Employ Jobs Data? -- 17-Nov-23
According to the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), India’s unemployment rate revealed a big decline from 6.1% in 2018 to 3.2% in 2023.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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HOW TO GAS YOURSELVES -- 16-Nov-23
Aliens from another world must think Delhiites to be on a suicide mission
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Sanjeev Sanyal & Apurv Kumar Mishra |
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Let’s Make Mediation Voluntary -- 15-Nov-23
Mediation is a procedure where a neutral intermediary helps parties reach amutually satisfactory settlement in adispute.
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Chidanand Rajghatta |
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Anathema Towards Anthems? -- 15-Nov-23
So, it’s down to four national anthems in the World Cup, with India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand making it to the semis.
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SAIBAL GHOSH |
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Cos Should be Open with Investors, It Pays -- 13-Nov-23
Daniel Kahneman was a psychologist in the Israeli Army in his early days and later won the Nobel Prize in economics for his unique ability to integrate psychological insights into economics.
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Gilles Verniers |
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Window Blocking the View -- 13-Nov-23
Electoral bonds have created the illusion that political funding in India has become somewhat clean
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Meyyappan Nagappan & DS Jaya Prakash Babu |
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PSUs, Green Champions? -- 13-Nov-23
The Paris Agreement set an ambitious but necessary goal of limiting the global average temperature between 1.5°C and 2°C above the pre-industrial levels by 2030.
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Harsh Mariwala & Tatwamasi Dixit |
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The Original Joint Venture -- 10-Nov-23
Family businesses are unique — to thrive, balance harmony and aspirations
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Rahul Basu |
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Secure GenNext Future -- 10-Nov-23
Intergenerational equity requires us to ensure that future generations inherit at least as much as we did. Traditionally, land has been an intergenerational asset.
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Mudar Patherya |
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The Republic of Team India -- 09-Nov-23
The Indian cricket team’s secular capacity to be good may be its biggest, under-celebrated achievement
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Ramesh Chand & Ram Singh |
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Tech Beyond Tractors -- 09-Nov-23
Agriculture’s share in global GDP has been increasing since the 2007-09 global financial crisis.
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Seema Sirohi |
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The Do Aur Do Punch -- 08-Nov-23
A powerful message will go out this week when US secretaries of state and defence travel to India to meet their counterparts for the 2+2 dialogue.
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Kushagra Srivastava & Sreeja Kundu |
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War Against the Airy-Fairy -- 07-Nov-23
To fight air pollution, have a tech-enabled emission-accounting system for all major emitters
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Ashima Goyal |
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India on a Fiscal Fitness Regime -- 07-Nov-23
Last month’s Kautilya Economic Conclave strangely had a number of speakers giving the finance ministry lectures on reducing high debt and deficit ratios.
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Mythili Bhusnurmath |
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RBI, Stick to Your Knitting -- 06-Nov-23
The central bank will do far more for climate change by tackling inflation than taking on GoI's remit
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Romal Shetty & Shailesh Tyagi |
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Beyond the ABC of ESG -- 06-Nov-23
The sustainability landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation in the past few years, extending far beyond its conventional definitions and practices.
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Leena Srivastava |
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Turn Now, the Light’s Green -- 03-Nov-23
GoI must set up an empowered authority reporting to PMO to oversee India’s energy transition
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Ateesh Tankha & Ganga Narayan Rath |
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eRs.-W, Hunt a Chimaera? -- 03-Nov-23
In November 2022, India rolled out wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDC-W), a central bank digital counteraction to cryptocurrencies arising from a fear that these private virtual currencies could disrupt monetary policy and destabilise markets.
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Neelkanth Mishra |
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When DMs Become Ems -- 02-Nov-23
Rising US rates and treasury yields are affecting cross-border capital flows
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Sahil Kanuga & Maulin Salvi |
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G-Force of Startups -- 02-Nov-23
In the ever-evolving landscape of venture capitalism, one constant remains: pursuit of the next big thing.
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Vivek Johri |
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Ensuring All Systems Are Cargo -- 31-Oct-23
With the signing of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in 2017, trade facilitation in the context of customs and border procedures has been moving at a fast clip.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Line & Length on Growth, Not ’Flation -- 31-Oct-23
In its relentless fight against inflation, has the world dropped the ball on growth?
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Girish Punjabi |
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World’s Game for Business -- 30-Oct-23
Investors everywhere want a piece of the cricket action, as value creation picks up runs
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Praveen Chakravarty |
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India Inc, Confront Caste -- 30-Oct-23
Readers of this newspaper may find it difficult to discuss caste. The corporate sector rightly considers itself a meritocracy that looks at people only through their ability and not identity.
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Arnie Guha |
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India, Go for World-Broker -- 27-Oct-23
Alliance-forming has shifted from evangelical to trust-based, to New Delhi’s geopolitical advantage
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Dinesh Kanabar |
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Double Taxation Trouble -- 27-Oct-23
One of the pillars of cross-border trade are tax treaties, agreements to avoid double taxation between two countries.
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Kiran Karnik |
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Before We Get Breathing Space -- 26-Oct-23
Instead of sending humans to space, why not send less risky, cheaper AI-powered robots?
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Madan Sabnavis/Suranjali Tandon |
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GREEN FINANCE -- 26-Oct-23
Give the Market A Green Signal
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Ashok Malik |
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Bridge Over Troubled Water -- 25-Oct-23
How India’s role in West Asia plays out will have an enormous impact on its external strategy.
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Abheek Barua |
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Double Double Toil 'n' Trouble -- 24-Oct-23
Economic policymakers need a new playbook to tackle unexpected shocks.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Does Israel Need US Aid? -- 24-Oct-23
America’s response to Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians is a farcical tragedy.
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Seema Sirohi |
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SPAGHETTI WEST ASIAN -- 20-Oct-23
Joe Biden’s show of solidarity with Israel while acknowledging the plight of Palestinians is wise
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Weathering the Storms -- 20-Oct-23
On October 7, Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on Israel. The strike was akin to what India witnessed on November 26, 2008, in Mumbai.
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Duvvuri Subbarao |
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For a Fi$tful of Non-Dollars -- 19-Oct-23
There’s much dollar resentment, but politics and economics hobble BRICS common currency plans
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Krishna Srinivasan |
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Keep the Game Face On -- 19-Oct-23
Strong consumer spending has supported growth across most of Asia in 2023.
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Vikram Doctor |
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Left Standing at the Altar -- 18-Oct-23
India+ has come a long way since a scornful verdict designed to drive people back into the closet
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Harsh V Pant & Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy |
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Lanka No More Game -- 17-Oct-23
On October 11, the Sri Lankan government confirmed that it had completed its debt-restructuring negotiations worth $4.2 billion with the Export Import
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Manish Banthia |
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Economic Stability or Defending Dollar? US Fed Has a Tough Task -- 16-Oct-23
In the world of finance, the delicate balance between interest rates, economic growth, and global currency dynamics often holds the key to stability or turmoil.
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Anand Vasu |
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When Fans Got So Fanatic -- 16-Oct-23
A voluble proportion of India’s cricket spectatorship has something unsavoury in its kit.
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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
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Five Statements of Intent -- 12-Oct-23
With a Mandal vs Kamandal 2.0 thrown into the mix, these polls will test the efficacy of the Modi cult.
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Sujeet Kumar & Saksham Malik |
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Tweak It to Our Needs -- 12-Oct-23
On Tuesday, GoI announced the extension of the term of the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) until October 31.
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Seema Sirohi |
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A Canadian Nip in the Air -- 11-Oct-23
The US is caught between a treaty ally and a strategic partner at a time when Israel needs it most.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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BRICS, the Mortar of Competition -- 11-Oct-23
Competition is the life force of an inclusive economy. Fair competition ensures consumer welfare, a level playing field and sustained economic growth.
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Ajay Chhibber |
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From Billions to Trillions -- 11-Oct-23
A central focus of the ongoing World Bank-IMF meetings in earthquakehit Marrakech, Morocco, is progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Nicoline de Haan & Himanshu Pathak |
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Level Playing Farmland -- 10-Oct-23
This is India’s moment on the world stage. With the successful completion of its G20 presidency and significant strides towards ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’, India has made internationally recognised progress toward strong, balanced, sustainable and inclusive growth to safeguard the future of people and the planet.
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Rajiv Kumar & Harshvardhan Singh |
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XPORT MARKS THE SPOT -- 09-Oct-23
Raising India’s share in global exports is key for growth and employment generation
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Anant Merathia |
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Getting a Second Chance -- 09-Oct-23
Indians run businesses on trust, good faith, wisdom and sectoral competence.
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Deepro Guha |
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Need to Algo the Distance -- 06-Oct-23
Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through social media, wondering why you can’t stop?
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Subimal Bhattacharjee & Ambuj Sahu |
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India-US Tech-Tocking -- 06-Oct-23
Amid speculation that India’s diplomatic fallout with Canada could dent India-US relations, recent developments suggest that India and the US are back to business as usual.
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Indrajit Hazra |
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A New Appleonian Design -- 04-Oct-23
Apple’s latest push towards planetary ethics-aesthetics is powerful brand-positioning at work.
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Reckless to Be Cashless -- 03-Oct-23
What happens when Big Government, Big Tech and Big Finance unite to wage arelentless war on cash? In parts of the developed world.
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Ajay Sood |
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Gain Gyan Through Vigyan -- 29-Sep-23
Don't look for science advice only during emergencies, use it for informed policymaking.
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Naresh Trehan |
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Have a Heart to Heart -- 29-Sep-23
India is a young country. Unfortunately a silent intruder - cardiovascular diseases is impacting the health of the younger generation.
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Kiran Karnik |
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All Imagineers May Apply -- 28-Sep-23
An AI-boosted worksphere will demand people who can imagine new products, services, processes.
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Subhrakant Panda |
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Unclog the Credit Lines -- 28-Sep-23
In pushing for greater inclusivity,India recognises the social and economic imperative of broad-based growth.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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OCEN of Opportunity -- 27-Sep-23
After two years of experiments with various pilots, Open Credit Enablement Network was launched recently.
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Rajesh Shukla |
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For a Bindiyan Workforce -- 26-Sep-23
India’s women’s labour force participation rate is dismal. To reverse this trend, educate them better
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Union States of America? -- 26-Sep-23
The US labour market is the hottest it has been in more than half a century. The unemployment rate has been less than 4% for almost two years.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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It Could Pay to Pay to Tweet -- 25-Sep-23
Getting consumers to pay for the benefit of using a public square may be a good, disruptive thing
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Akshay Rout |
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Planning for One Mega Carnival -- 25-Sep-23
The first meeting of the committee on ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE) chaired by former president Ram Nath Kovind took place on Saturday.
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Indrani Bagchi |
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See You Later, 'Allegation -- 21-Sep-23
Did Trudeau throw India under the bus before a public inquiry brings uncomfortable facts to light?
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Arvind Panagariya |
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Delhi Exerted G20 Force -- 21-Sep-23
A day before the G20 summit, I had made three predictions
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Harsh V Pant |
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Stand-Up Justin, Stand Down -- 20-Sep-23
Trudeau has lost the plot on India, and things are unlikely to get better under his administration
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Rohit K Singh |
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Dial C for Customer Care -- 20-Sep-23
In the ever-changing landscape of global commerce and trade, a critical fulcrum balances the scales between producers and consumers.
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Anjana Menon |
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Falling Far From the Tree -- 19-Sep-23
The star in Apple’s products launch last week was Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer.
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Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha |
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Snakecharming Those Data -- 12-Sep-23
Of economists, echo chambers and exoticism — the trifecta of anti-India critiques via cherry-picking
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Sanjay Kapoor |
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Can 5G Pick Up Speed? -- 12-Sep-23
As of June, 240-plus communications service providers (CSPs) have launched commercial 5G services worldwide.
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Narendra Modi |
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G20D MORNING, HUMANITY -- 07-Sep-23
Under India's presidency, G20 has moved towards a human-centric globalisation project
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V Ranganathan |
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Let IIMs Run, IIMs, Run -- 01-Sep-23
When IIM-A decided to award diplomas to students instead of opting for a degreegranting status, it was to distance itself from UGC and its bizarre rules.
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Sandeep Parekh & Rashmi Birmole & T K Arun |
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WANTED: AN EXIT STRATEGY -- 31-Aug-23
Ease delisting cos, especially those on defunct exchanges, and be fair to investors and delisters
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Saibal Ghosh |
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Right-Colouring One’s Funds -- 31-Aug-23
Jan Evangelista Purkinje, a 19th century Czech physiologist, discovered that colours that appeared brightest to human eyes in daylight appeared the darkest at dusk.
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Ashok Malik |
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The Continuity Constituency -- 30-Aug-23
Modi’s urging this growing target group that wise choices today can impact India for ‘centuries’
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Seema Sirohi |
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Fear & Loathing for 2024 -- 30-Aug-23
What you have been dreading or waiting for — depending on your point of view — is nigh. The 2024 presidential election will be an endurance test, even a reality test. Old rules may not apply.
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Boria Majumdar |
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India’s Got Spear headed -- 29-Aug-23
Neeraj Chopra represents not only a new breed of world-beating Indian athletes, but also of Indians
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Gauri Chaudhari |
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A Bitter Pill to Swallow -- 29-Aug-23
The National Medical Commission’s (NMC) decision last week to put on hold its August 3 rule mandating doctors to prescribe only generic drugs or face punishment is welcome.
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Sandipan Deb |
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Woke Up? Smell the Coffee -- 28-Aug-23
Money and margins speak louder than social justice, and certainly than virtue-signalling
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Vivek Joshi |
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Getting More Into the Money Circle -- 28-Aug-23
The National Mission on Financial Inclusion, a.k.a. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), was launched on this day in 2014.
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Lubna Kably |
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GST Lumps Need Smoothening -- 28-Aug-23
The GST regime, having recently celebrated its sixth anniversary, stands as aremarkable achievement in the Indian tax landscape.
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Dinesh Thakur & Prashant Reddy T |
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First, Have a Head for Meds -- 25-Aug-23
The generics-only prescription rule does not make sense when quality of drugs remains suspect
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Russia Sanctions-Proof? -- 25-Aug-23
Have Western economic sanctions on Russia failed? GDP growth data since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and projections from multilateral organisations and Western banks for 2023 and 2024 suggest that they have.
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Prakash Chandra |
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Khoya Khoya CHAAND, Khula Aasmaan -- 24-Aug-23
Chandrayaan-3 burnishes ISRO’s reputation for amazing science, done with amazing frugality
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Rajiv Kumar & Nikhil Gupta |
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Better Save Than Worry -- 24-Aug-23
In India, there has always been greater attention on investment trends than on savings. For instance, the sharp decline in the investment rate from its peak of 39% of GDP in FY12 to 31% of GDP in FY23 attracted much attention.
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Amitabh Kant & Satwik Mishra |
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Our Eye Firmly on AI -- 23-Aug-23
India’s use of technology to turbocharge socioeconomic development is now a globally celebrated phenomenon. Our digital public infrastructure (DPI) interventions have promoted choice, competition…
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TV Ramachandran |
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Why Should OTTs Pay? -- 22-Aug-23
On August 14, this page published ‘Netflex Your OTT Muscles’, by V Sridhar, Rohit Prasad and Mansi Kedia. In the piece, the authors argued that OTTs that are large traffic generators (LTGs)…
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Abheek Barua & Sakshi Gupta |
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Don’t Bank on Predictions -- 21-Aug-23
Deviations from consensus expectations have rattled both domestic as well as global markets
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Krishna S Vatsa |
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Pays to Avoid Disaster -- 21-Aug-23
As countries grow and expand their economies, their risk exposure also increases. Natural disasters can cause massive damage to assets and investments in vulnerable areas.
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Anoop Jain & SV Subramanian |
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Don’t Sit on SBM’s Success -- 18-Aug-23
Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 must ensure access to, and maintenance of, quality toilets for all
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Harsh V Pant & Vivek Mishra |
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More Dips After CHIPS -- 18-Aug-23
Last Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the CHIPS and Science Act 2022 ushered by the Joe Biden administration to advance US’ competitive edge vis-à-vis China
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Neha Singhal |
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Angrezon ke Zamane ke Jailer -- 17-Aug-23
India’s criminal justice system needs real decolonising, and must go beyond mere textual changes
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Sanjeev Sanyal & Aakanksha Arora |
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Exit Biz Minus Hassles -- 17-Aug-23
While attention on economic policy tends to focus on large structural reforms, many required changes tend to be the ‘nuts and bolts’ process reforms.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Not a Knockout Punch -- 16-Aug-23
The process of ‘derisking’ the US economy from China is moving slowly, but surely. Last week, President Joe Biden signed a much-awaited executive order to limit and regulate new investment...
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V Sridhar, Rohit Prasad & Mansi Kedia |
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Netflex Your OTT Muscles -- 14-Aug-23
LTGs should pay a Broadband Infrastructure Levy proportional to their traffic on the internet
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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
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Go Through the Motion -- 14-Aug-23
In a country where cricketing metaphors are routine while talking politics, last week’s debate on the no-confidence motion was analogous to a warm-up game.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Chinese Port Dumplings -- 10-Aug-23
China is recceing various spots, especially in South Asia, to set up overseas military bases.
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Akshay Rout |
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Time For a Clean Sweep -- 10-Aug-23
In July, GoI began Swachh Survekshan (SS) 2023, the world’s largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey.
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Ajay Chhibber |
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Don’t Permit a Licence Raj -- 09-Aug-23
The Narendra Modi government has restricted the import of laptops, tablets, etc, in its effort to support ‘Make in India'.
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Prakash Balakrishnan |
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Never Too Big to Fail -- 09-Aug-23
Recently, America's big four banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank — posted excellent results helped by resurging net interest income (NII), accrued from steadily climbing interest rates.
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Chintan Vaishnav, Vijay Shekhar Sharma & Rajan Anandan |
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G20fy the Startup Space -- 08-Aug-23
The global economy crossed the $100 trillion mark for the first time in 2022, but it's in a precarious position.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Flying All Over the Place -- 07-Aug-23
Transport is the lifeline of an economy. Today, India is the third largest aviation market globally, thanks to robust infrastructure, new state-of-the-art airports, multiple airlines, and a large passenger base.
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Anil Nair |
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This Cable Remains King -- 04-Aug-23
Rights laws and maintenance can keep critical underwater cables — and the internet - shipshape
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KumKum Dasgupta |
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Swinging With the Rain -- 04-Aug-23
The Bundelkhand region, which straddles Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is one of the worst drought-prone areas of India. Come summer, people are stressed.
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Rajan Anandan |
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The World Is Their Oyster -- 03-Aug-23
Earlier this year, Bengalurubased Digantara hitched a ride on SpaceX's Transporter 6 mission to launch a micro-satellite designed to help astronauts and telcos navigate the massive sprawl of space debris orbiting Earth.
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Indrajit Hazra |
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Unease of Doing Business -- 03-Aug-23
If there is one thing that India Inc dislikes more than experiencing unease of doing business, it is publicly acknowledging unease of doing business.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Getting All Spaced Out -- 02-Aug-23
Imagine this : an Indian astronaut could be at the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024, making history as the first Indian to participate in the world's longest-running programme in space.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Moving, On Different Strokes -- 01-Aug-23
India is no longer an abjectly poor nation. But it faces an equally compelling challenge: inequality.
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R Venkataraman |
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Markets Headed for a Correction? Good Question -- 31-Jul-23
Amid this roaring bull market, I recently met a long-standing broking client in Delhi and guess what? He appeared sad.
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Ashok Malik |
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Crystal-Ball Gazing Into '24 -- 31-Jul-23
Where the needle has, and hasn't, shifted prior to the upcoming state polls and the Big One
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Singapore Slingvestments All Over -- 31-Jul-23
India has become the most soughtafter investment destination for Singapore and its government-owned companies like Temasek.
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Amar Patnaik |
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Data Dangers, Hasten Safety Belts -- 31-Jul-23
Data goes through different stages and processes before it can be monetised or used for social objectives. This includes data collection, access, storage, processing and analysis.
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Ananda Datla |
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Atpadi's Watershed Water Solution -- 25-Jul-23
When you cross Solapur on your way to Mumbai, vast swathes of dry land on either side of the highway are punctuated by parcels of cultivated land.
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Lubna Kably |
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HRA to Spouse: Truth or Dare? -- 25-Jul-23
Curiouser and curiouser. One can't help but echo Alice of Wonderland fame after reading various judicial and quasi-judicial decisions relating to allowability of house rent allowance (HRA), in those instances where rent has been paid to a close relative such as spouse or a parent.
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Jaideep Khanna |
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Market View of Rates and Asset Prices Disconnected -- 24-Jul-23
The global financial system may have shrugged off the series of banking collapses in the US and Europe earlier this year
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Rajesh Shukla |
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Middle Takes Centre Stages -- 24-Jul-23
India's middle class is expanding, thanks to rapid urbanisation. This will reshape the economy
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Shantanu Nandan Sharma |
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Don't Let the Manipur Pot Boil Over -- 24-Jul-23
India's Northeast is a melting pot of several ethnic groups with diverse cultures and traditions.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Walking the Talk Before Poll Time -- 24-Jul-23
For democracies to deliver, it's their bureaucracies that ultimately must.
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Dipankar Bhattacharyya |
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Love in These Craizy Times -- 21-Jul-23
Tech stocks look unstoppable now, especially fuelled by the seven biggest AI-pool companies
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Monojit Mazumdar |
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Are You Experienced? -- 21-Jul-23
In B Joseph Pine and James H Gilmore's 1999 book, The Experience Economy, the authors tell us to consider a ‘true commodity': the coffee bean.
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Varun Gandhi |
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Not Just a Conservation Point -- 20-Jul-23
With Parliament reconvening today, the amended Forest Bill is up for approval. What of our wildlife?
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Hone Our Healer Instinct -- 20-Jul-23
Medical tourism in India has been growing at a galloping pace. Interestingly, among the top 10 countries from where medical tourists arrive...
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Chris West,Rijit Sengupta & Pratibha Baveja |
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G20 Climate Action -- 19-Jul-23
Faced with record heatwaves and biodiversity loss, G20 must urgently consider how to achieve a net-zero world economy and the robust protection of nature.
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Bhaswati Mukherjee |
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PM's France Visit: Re-setting of Strategic Manoeuvres -- 18-Jul-23
Indo-French connect brings stability & support to India's presidency of G20 amid intractable Ukraine-Russia conflicts
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Prabal Basu Roy |
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Take the Mickey Out of OTT -- 18-Jul-23
Disney, Netflix plummets show the absolute need to tame the industry's pricing and cost beasts
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Nikhil Pahwa |
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You Bet It's Still Gambling! -- 17-Jul-23
By taxing real-money gaming at 28% like gambling, GST Council rightly conflates the two sectors
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Dharmendra Chandurkar |
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Time to Teach Our Cities to Swim -- 17-Jul-23
Indian cities are increasingly becoming flood-prone. Unfortunately, this is the new normal.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Space Exploration Also Lies Below -- 17-Jul-23
Earlier this month, China imposed export controls on the sale of gallium and germanium, two little-known minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors.
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Anil Nair |
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Thank God It's Moonday -- 14-Jul-23
Today's launch of Chandrayaan-3 could be the start of India becoming a serious contender in space
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Tushar Gore & Yoav Dori |
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Hack Anti-Ageing Hacks -- 14-Jul-23
The joke is that most people rate public speaking as their No. 1 fear — ahead of death. Public speaking, unlike death, is a problem with a solution.
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Laveesh Bhandari |
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More Bang for the CSR Buck -- 13-Jul-23
To make corporate social spending more impactful, change the laws, rules and processes
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Indrajit Hazra |
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Remember the Forgotten Punchline -- 13-Jul-23
Milan Kundera's ‘curse' was that he was all the rage in the 1980s as the literary world's poster boy for anticommunism.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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If You're a Platform, Pay -- 13-Jul-23
Today's world is digital, and tech platforms are making the most of it.
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Arvind Agarwal |
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How to Survive Death Valley -- 12-Jul-23
Many startups perish due to funds crunch. Impact investment funds can throw them a lifeline
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Gurjit Singh |
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Go Beyond the Safari -- 12-Jul-23
India's G20 presidency has reinvigorated its relationship with Africa.
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