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Parthasarathi Shome |
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Hail-a-Tax to Catch a Ride -- 26-Jul-24
Budget introduces many tweaks and reforms, but misses a chance for comprehensive overhaul.
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Purvi Mehta |
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Cultivating a Smarter Approach -- 26-Jul-24
Over 77 years of independent India's existence and across a series of budgets,one factor has remained constant;
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Anjana Menon |
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(Carefully) Walk the Talk on Infra -- 26-Jul-24
When Bengaluru airport's Terminal 2 opened in late 2022, it shut those up who believed India could never deliver world-class infrastructure.
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Abheek Barua |
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Keep Kaam & Carry On -- 25-Jul-24
The budget summons jobs as growth warrior, but rival inflation will need to be overwhelmed.
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Seema Sirohi |
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DC Back to Its Old India Ways? -- 25-Jul-24
Much water has flowed down the potomac since the hug between Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin.
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Kaushik Shaparia |
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Fuelling India's Ride to Developed Economy Stop -- 25-Jul-24
The budget underscores the government's steadfast commitment to growth without compromising oon fiscal discipline.
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S Naren |
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Building on Reforms to Keep India on a Clear Growth Path -- 24-Jul-24
India growth story intact, but rational yet conservative approach must.
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Nilesh Shah |
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Fiscal Prudence can Help Bring Down the Cost of Capital -- 24-Jul-24
Taming exuberance key to system stability; FM didn't hesitate to act.
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Rajeev Thakkar |
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No Gains, No Tax. Markets to Take Tax Hikes in Stride -- 24-Jul-24
Budget doesn't change fundamentals; caution is required.
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Sanjeev Prasad |
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Rural Spending Push, Tax Cuts to Spur Consumption -- 24-Jul-24
The govt may pursue further rationalisation in cap gains structure.
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Ashok Gulati & Reena Singh |
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Take Rice Off the Buffet Menu -- 22-Jul-24
Repurpose subsidies and offer MSP for other crops to wean Punjab & Haryana from paddy.
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Somnath Mukherjee |
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Let's Go Down Agnipath -- 22-Jul-24
Deaths of 18 'Agniveers' in less than a year have reignited the debate on the usefulness of the Agnipath scheme...
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Why India Comes Up Trump -- 18-Jul-24
If America sees regime change, it may go easy on Russia and take a more hostile stance on China.
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Holding a Gun to America’s Head? -- 18-Jul-24
'Sic semper tyrannis' - 'Thus always to tyrants' - shouted John Wilkes Booth after fatally shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on April 14, 1865.
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Madan Sabnavis |
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Disinvest, But With Right interest -- 18-Jul-24
To disinvest or not to disinvest is a Hamletian conundrum all governments face when drafting a budget.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Resurrection of Son of a Gun -- 16-Jul-24
Fist clenched and blood dripping down his cheek, Donald Trump is now a martyr for the 'cause', no longer an ordinary candidate against Joe Biden.
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Ramnath Krishnan |
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2024 Must Show the Way to 2030 -- 16-Jul-24
India is in a sweet macroeconomic spot. Growth rates are higher than all large economics, notwithstanding the conflicting GDP-vs-GVA metrics signals.
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Soumya Kanti Ghosh |
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Time to Get Aggro on Agri -- 15-Jul-24
Budget presents an opportunity to usher key policy changes to unshackle our agriculture sector.
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Yashraj Erande |
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Debt Collection Just Got Easier -- 15-Jul-24
AI and digital are revolutionising nearly every aspect of our lives.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Make Gold, Copper Great Again -- 15-Jul-24
Gold and copper are two of the oldest metals known to humans. They have now acquired a new sheen.
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Amit Kapoor |
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Mind the Gap, Then Fix It -- 12-Jul-24
India's LFPR is rising, but there's a mismatch between workforce skills and job market demands.
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Rachana Baid |
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How to Avoid MF Mishaps -- 12-Jul-24
Sebi recently launched a probe into Quant Mutual Fund for suspected front-running, an illgegal practice where fund managers place their own orders before executing large trades to profit from the anticipated price movement.
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Make Deposits Great Again -- 11-Jul-24
Rather than constrain credit growth through regulatory diktats, the budget should revitalise deposits.
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Sudhir Sitapati |
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Have Revadi, Eat It Too -- 11-Jul-24
The economy is doing well, with world beating GDP growth, macroeconomic stability and a steady inflow of foreign capital.
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Sanjeev Choudhary |
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Untether the Fuel Nozzle -- 10-Jul-24
When Narendra Modi took the prime ministerial office for the first time in 2014, he set clear goals for the oil and gas sector.
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Neelkanth Mishra |
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Chinese Takeaway Plus One -- 08-Jul-24
Take advantage of global pushback, inefficiencies due to Beijing's over-investment.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Will It Be a 'Congress' Budget, GoI? -- 08-Jul-24
In June, Congress-ruled Telangana announced a farm loan waiver of Rs.31k cr, fulfilling a key poll promise made before the assembly elections last year.
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Maryam Aslany |
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Reform Your 'Reformist Iran' Opinion -- 08-Jul-24
On July 6, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected the new president of Iran. Most newspapers reported that a reformist has triumphed.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Reincarnate the Tibet Card? -- 04-Jul-24
The Dalai Lama may soon reveal his succession plan, and it'll have geopolitical ramifications.
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Rajesh Shukla |
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Agriculture -- 04-Jul-24
On the first day of assuming office for the third time last month, PM Narendra Modi released the 17th instalment of PM-Kisan SAamman Nidhi.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Them Dems Look Lost -- 03-Jul-24
There are times when politics demands radical thinking and a change of tactics, cumbersome and painful as they might be.
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Avinash Mohananey |
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Pak, China Op Against TTP Brings Afghan Taliban in Play -- 01-Jul-24
Will Chinese interests in Pakistan henceforth be more secure or insecure?; Afghan Taliban and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan are joined at the hip.
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Boria Majumdar |
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ANATOMY OF A CATCH -- 01-Jul-24
Suryakumar Yadav’s boundary dismissal of David Miller is a genius moment of sporting history.
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Anand Vasu |
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The Boom That Won India the Cup -- 01-Jul-24
Dress it up any way you want. Put lipstick on the most beautiful pigs that you want.
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Agustín Carstens |
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Don't Obsess on Inflation Targets -- 01-Jul-24
Central banks have shown they can take forceful action to head off the most dramatic increase in inflation in a generation.
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Shivaji Dasgupta |
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It's About Can, Not Cannes -- 28-Jun-24
Advertising must focus on ways to make business and society grow, not just win clubbie awards.
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Rachana Baid & V Shunmugam |
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For Our Mutual Benefit -- 28-Jun-24
Asset management behemoth BlackRock’s departure from the Indian MF market in 2018 sent shock waves through the financial world.
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Rajeev Kumar |
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Pen'n'Paper Just Won't Pass -- 27-Jun-24
Exams like NET and NEET need to stick to the tried-and-tested computer-based test format.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Dig In Smartly to Grow -- 27-Jun-24
India's natural resources sector - mining, metals, minerals and hydrocarbons -serves as the backbone for manufacturing and infrastructure sectors.
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Nitin Paranjpe |
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Zap Our Human Capital to Shape -- 26-Jun-24
It took 60 years since its independence for India to become a $1 tn economy. The next trillion came in seven years, and the third trillion in five.
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Boria Majumdar |
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Kite-Runners Between Wickets -- 26-Jun-24
The president of Afghanistan calls me every match day to check on me. The whole country watches IPL religiously because Afghan players are playing in it.
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Kiran Karnik |
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For Exams to Pass the Test -- 24-Jun-24
Some suggestions for systemic improvements to minimise, or stop, future NEET-NET-type leaks.
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GR Gopinath |
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On GST, KISS and Tell -- 24-Jun-24
Making things simple isn’t that simple. In December 2018, as FM, Arun Jaitley had announced that the sun would soon set on the 28% GST slab, except for luxury items.
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Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha |
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Off With the Headaches -- 21-Jun-24
By eliminating exemptions in direct taxes, complexities and litigation costs can be removed.
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Amit Kapoor |
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Get on the Job of Jobs -- 21-Jun-24
India has a problem that has been baffling economists: its GDP is growing, but without a corresponding increase in employment.
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Nikhil Pahwa |
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Stand Up to Breaking News -- 20-Jun-24
AI summaries like Perplexity’s pose serious concerns for society and publishers.
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Deepak Mishra |
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Make (Indices) in India -- 20-Jun-24
Disconnect between India’s rising economy and its falling ranking in global indices is hard to ignore. In the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Gender Gap index, for instance, India slipped two spots to rank at 129 out of 146 nations.
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Subimal Bhattacharjee |
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iCET On the Right Path -- 19-Jun-24
US NSA Jake Sullivan’s two-day visit to Delhi, the first official visit from Washington since the new NDA government took office, has turned out to be a productive one.
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Somnath Mukherjee |
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A Manufactured Straw Man -- 17-Jun-24
Manufacturing isn't about jobs but key to balancing trade deficits securing geopolitical security.
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Atul Tiwari |
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Time to Reskill the Skilling Plan -- 17-Jun-24
Countries with advanced skilling eco-systems integrate national priorities and industry initiatives through a collaborative framework.
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Rahul Pandita |
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We Don't Need 'Israel-Type Solution' -- 17-Jun-24
You must have seen it on TV or on social media - a group of school girls visibly in distress, hyperventilating and crying.
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Samidha Sharma |
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Bets Spread Beyond Tech -- 14-Jun-24
A big trend in venture investing is emerging, something that’s been simmering for a few years now in the post-Covid era.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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Don't Sleep with the Fishes -- 14-Jun-24
Strong ex ante laws can prevent Big Tech dominance, protect privacy and ensure fair competition
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Chetan Ahya |
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Big Plate of Supply-Side Up -- 13-Jun-24
Economies can’t redistribute their way to prosperity, only growth will lift people out of poverty
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Sanjeev Krishan |
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Now, Here’s an India Plan -- 13-Jun-24
With a 7%-plus GDP growth rate for the third consecutive year in FY24, India sits on the cusp of advancement while facing several challenges.
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Rajeev Kher & Anshuman Gupta |
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Global Standards with FTAs -- 12-Jun-24
India recently concluded a trade and economic partnership agreement (TEPA) with European Free Trade Association (EFTA), a group comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
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Anand Vasu |
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Run, USA, Run, Between The Wickets -- 11-Jun-24
A change of process is needed for Americans beyond expats and PIOs to actually take to cricket.
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Nupur Garg |
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PE-VC Sector’s Laapataa Ladies -- 11-Jun-24
A heartwarming narrative nestled in India’s hinterlands, the underlying message of Kiran Rao’s latest film Laapataa Ladies that’s been grabbing national attention is the significance of a woman’s self-realisation and selfidentity subtly setting in.
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Aditya Sinha |
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Miss the Hows, Whys for the Whats? -- 11-Jun-24
AI is increasingly enhancing the speed and scope of discoveries by helping in hypothesis generation, experimental design and analysis of large datasets.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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The World's Now Oysterer -- 10-Jun-24
A coalition gov representing wider political opinion will add to India's geopolitical heft, not reduce it.
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Neeraj Kaushals |
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Less Disliked Will Win -- 07-Jun-24
Americans are saddled with two inglorious presidential candidates: Joe Biden and Donald Trump
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Indrajit Hazra |
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Not Just Chaukas & Chhakkas -- 06-Jun-24
After two Lok Sabha iterations, multiplayer politics on the national level gets its mojo back
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Somnath Mukherjee |
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New Gov, Up Demand -- 06-Jun-24
As a new government is formed, India’s economic backdrop couldn’t look better. 8.2% GDP estimates exceed most estimates.
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RAAMDEO AGARWAL |
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Politics may be Fluid, but Economics is Still Solid. Time to be Somewhat Greedy -- 05-Jun-24
Inequity investing, it’s very important to cut out the noise. On Tuesday, after considering the election results, the Nifty tanked almost 6%.
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NILESH SHAH |
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Back to Basics in Uncertain Times; Quality to Outperform Momentum -- 05-Jun-24
The election outcome has come against the market and exit polls estimates.
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JAHANGIR AZIZ |
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Macro Policy Choices Unclear, But Work Cut Out on Reforms Agenda -- 05-Jun-24
Domestic competition another focus area for sustained growth
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India Has Come a Long Way From Fragile 5 Days, Time to Race Ahead -- 05-Jun-24
Today’s Indian economy has solid foundations. Balance sheets are clean; business confidence is high; supply-side reforms are progressing and fundamentals are in a good shape.
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Bharati Chaturvedi & Anshu Sharma |
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Listen to This Heat Speech -- 04-Jun-24
With not a word throughout the polls on tackling extreme heat, here are some ‘campaign’ suggestions.
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Jamas Hodivala & Chirag Naik |
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Trans-Europe Express -- 04-Jun-24
India’s economic growth and expanding role in global trade, exemplified by its recent free trade deal with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), are significant opportunities for trade with the EU.
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Mythili Bhusnurmath |
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Now, Bat On a Great Wicket -- 03-Jun-24
Whichever way you cut it, the economy’s booming and is a welcome gift for the incoming gov.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Pill for China Plus One -- 03-Jun-24
It’s been four years since the pandemic hit and jolted awake the world to its over-dependence on China for all manner of things, most crucially, medical supplies.
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Kiran Karnik |
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HURRY, While We’re Still Young! -- 30-May-24
India’s producing far fewer kids — we need to quickly make the best use of our working-age population.
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Alok Kumar & Balaji Chandramouli |
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Overheating Electricity -- 30-May-24
With temperatures reaching record levels in many parts of India, GoI has instructed idling power plants to crank up operations to cope with the impending increase in electricity demand.
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S K Pathak |
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Raise a Glass to the Job Creators -- 29-May-24
In a recent interview, Narendra Modi reiterated the need to encourage business and not demonise it.
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Govind Bhattacharjee |
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Don’t Eat the Rich, It’ll Hurt the Rest -- 29-May-24
On May 24, Thomas Piketty’s World Inequality Lab released a follow-up note to its earlier published paper, ‘Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the BillionaireRaj’.
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Madan Sabnavis |
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More Gold for Their Buck -- 28-May-24
Central banks are moving over to the yellow metal to de-dollarise and tackle global uncertainty
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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XX Chromosome Factor -- 28-May-24
Regardless of what happens next Tuesday when votes are tallied, the standout trend in the still ongoing general election will be the role of women voters in influencing the outcome.
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Ashok Malik |
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Viksit Elections, Bharat? -- 27-May-24
Onus is on EC, and incoming government, to make voting, polling, electioneering less harrowing
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Gopal Srinivasan |
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C'mon, You Can Get Your AIF Cert! -- 27-May-24
In a May 13 circular, Sebi mandated that ‘at least one key personnel’ on the investment team of the ‘manager of an alternative investment fund (AIF)’ should have NISM (National Institute of Securities Market) certification by passing the NISM Series-XIX-C exam.
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Subhrakant Panda |
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Your First 100 Days To-Do List, Gov -- 27-May-24
The 18th Lok Sabha polls are almost done and dusted. A new government will be in place once results are declared on June 4.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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Enable With Our Own Cable -- 24-May-24
India must loosen the cords tying it too tightly to the pervasive influence of global Big Tech.
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Rohit Kumar Singh |
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Protection from AI's Echo Chamber -- 24-May-24
The news of Scarlett Johansson suing OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT-4o, for allegedly replicating her voice without consent, has amplified a growing global concern: who owns our voices in the age of AI?
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Soumya Kanti Ghosh |
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Ladies at the Head of the Lines -- 24-May-24
The first five phases of the 7-phase voting in the 18th Lok Sabha elections are done, with the 6th phase tomorrow.
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Anil Nair |
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A Techtronic Shift's Coming -- 23-May-24
India's electronic manufacturing service industry is humming - now to stick to the fight path.
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Nirmal Jain |
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Another Feather in India's Mcap -- 23-May-24
India has achieved a significant milestone, with its market capitalisation crossing the $5 tn mark on Tuesday, tripling in a decade of robust reforms and economic progress.
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Lubna Kably |
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Making Independence Count -- 23-May-24
Sebi recently fined two independent directors (IDs) — a retired air vice marshal and a physical therapist — ?10 lakh each for failing to fulfil their statutory duties as members of their companies’ audit committee, and for not safeguarding interests of shareholders.
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Siddharth Shah & Deep Shah |
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Fund Pool, More AIFs Than Buts -- 22-May-24
The year is 2015 and the budget speech has just concluded. There is jubilation on Dalal Street.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Of More Import Than Just a Port -- 22-May-24
Connectivity is key to meeting, and potentially beating, the competition in a contested world. Countries are doing what they must to create new corridors for commerce.
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Manish Sabharwal & Kartik Narayan |
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No Quota, Reform Salary -- 21-May-24
Indira Gandhi would have been amused by Rahul Gandhi's recent comment at an election rally that Congress will use legislation to breach the 50% quota cap if it's voted into office.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Get Bullish in a China Shop -- 20-May-24
India will have to find ways to reduce India Inc’s over-reliance on a belligerent neighbour.
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Karthik Kondepudi |
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Stop Cos Stretching the Truth -- 20-May-24
Recently, Patanjali found itself under the scanner of regulatory bodies and Supreme Court in the context of dodgy advertising practices.
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Akshay Rout |
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Turnout's Turning Out All Right -- 20-May-24
In the 17 Lok Sabha elections starting from 1951, turnout went past 60% only on seven occasions, of which the 65% mark was crossed only in 2014 and 2019.
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Amit Kapoor |
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Not Just a One-Horse Town -- 17-May-24
Empower the opposition to become active political participants.
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Pradeep S Mehta & Amit Dasgupta |
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Oz One Out for Students -- 17-May-24
On May 11, Australia announced that it plans to introduce legislation to set an allocation for the maximum number of new international student enrolments education providers can offer.
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Ashok Malik |
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The Last Old-Style Election? -- 16-May-24
Digitalisation of society and political communication suggests another future for how India votes.
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Jaspreet Bindra |
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Google's Distributing AI Pixie Dust -- 16-May-24
In the good old days, when Microsoft was The Enemy, it had an EEE strategy — embrace, extend and extinguish.
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Harsh V Pant & Prithvi Gupta |
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Chabahar, Port of a Smart Call -- 16-May-24
Earlier this week, India and Iran signed a 10-year development and operation contract for Chabahar Port in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman.
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Amitabh Kant & Ajit Pai |
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Urbanisation = Growth -- 15-May-24
Since 1947, India has reluctantly traversed the path of urbanisation, largely due to its predominantly agriculturedependent rural population.
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Madhavan Narayanan |
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Our Malls Need to Be Melas -- 14-May-24
With online retail increasingly the default option, offline shopping needs to be far more experiential
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Ashish Gupta |
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Connoisseur of Quantity -- 14-May-24
James Harris Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies, was a pioneer of quantitative investing (QI) across asset classes.
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Harsh Mariwala & Tatwamasi Dixit |
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How to Bring In the Outsider -- 13-May-24
Combine intuition with data-driven processes for hiring professionals
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Ludovic Subran |
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No More Business Class? -- 13-May-24
For all the indignation that Donald Trump’s policy pronouncements often generate, European business leaders don’t seem much concerned about the prospect of another Trump presidency. Some even view it optimistically.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Does It Pay to Poll Dance? -- 10-May-24
While money matters in Indian elections, it's no guarantee for victory
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Anil Nair |
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This AI Tide Ain't Ebbing -- 10-May-24
The biggest takeaway of Stanford University’s AI Index Report 2024 is that AI has surpassed human performance on several benchmarks.
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Abheek Barua & Sakshi Gupta |
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World Wide Tangled Web -- 09-May-24
If private investment and consumption are the next growth engines, will lower interest rates help?
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Vietnam in Palestine -- 09-May-24
A spectre is haunting America — the spectre of Palestine. A few powers that be have entered into an uneasy alliance to exorcise it: Republicans and Democrats; tycoons and professionals; public figures and masked thugs aided or ignored by the police.
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Satarupa Bhattacharjya |
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So, What’s in China’s Renames? -- 08-May-24
China has been giving names to, and drawing maps of, places it claims sovereignty over - on land and in water.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Gaffer, or Channelling Inner Joe? -- 08-May-24
Was it a gaffe, or the essence of Joe Biden’s innermost feelings about India that rise to the surface every now and then, despite strict controls and constant monitoring?
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Rohit K Singh |
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Don't Fall for AI-Washing -- 07-May-24
India’s consumer market is a thrilling gold rush. Tech-savvy citizens with rising incomes are snapping up the latest gadgets and services, eager to embrace a smarter future.
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Mythili Bhusnurmath |
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Ring-fenced From Rajniti -- 06-May-24
RBI’s independence from political pressures ensures economic stability during and after polls
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Amit Garg, Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan & R B Grover |
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For Clear Air, Go Nuclear -- 06-May-24
Globally, nuclear energy will play an important role in decarbonising and achieving net-zero targets.
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Somnath Mukherjee |
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Take Those Blinkers Off -- 03-May-24
Prioritise data-driven analysis, not polemics, to guide discussions on income and wealth inequality
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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WhatsUp, ShadowBoxers? -- 02-May-24
Are Meta and GoI really tussling over encryption? Or are we watching covert mutualism at play?
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Atanu Biswas |
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No, Not UBIquitous Yet -- 02-May-24
A day after International Labour Day, imagine if all citizens received a monthly payment from the government, with no strings attached.
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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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Prakash Balakrishnan |
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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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Lubna Kably |
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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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Anil Nair |
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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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