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A fortnight after India slashed its windfall profit tax on locally produced crude oil to under a third, it has now raised it sharply to ₹2,300 per...
As India’s economy shows signs of private investment picking up, an indicator that holds out hope is our ‘credit-to-GDP gap.’ This measures the...
Human trafficking is the modern version of the olden-day slave trade. Suspicion of it explains why French authorities detained a Nicaragua-bound...
In a landmark development, the digital land records of 13 major states and four Union territories (UTs) have been loaded onto the government’s...
Delhi’s flip-flop over an odd-even vehicle scheme to get the gasping city through its annual fortnight of peak air toxicity has given us flashes of...
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding legal provisions related to personal guarantors under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) could open the...
Senior citizens, or those over the age of 60, are projected to touch 300 million by 2050 in India, more than double the number today. While the...
After N.R. Narayana Murthy’s call for 70-hour work weeks, Motilal Oswal Financial Services has struck a contrary note. The brokerage has reportedly...
The politics of social justice has long held salience in India as an echo of the ‘class struggle’ of leftist extraction. As general elections...
With the Israel-Hamas war intensifying, crude oil prices were expected to surge over concerns of supply disruptions in case hostilities widened. Yet,...
A general election is slated next year, but India’s poll season got ballot-active on Tuesday, with polling done in Mizoram (fully) and Chhattisgarh...
For an economy that had been the apple pie of the eye of global investors for many decades, China’s deficit in foreign direct investment (FDI) in...
Few will dispute that the Indian economy’s recovery from the covid shock has been better than that of most other major economies, barring perhaps...
With Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) in the “severe" zone of danger in many localities, its Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has dusted off its...
It’s not just the annual festive season, it is also that point in a half-decadal electoral cycle when political strategies are parsed closely. Over...
Governments appear keener on claiming the right to become the alpha custodians of artificial intelligence (AI) governance than on striking a balance...
Years before Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy urged the country’s youth to work 70 hours per week, drawing a wide range of ‘emojis’ in...
The ministry of corporate affairs has made changes in the Companies Amendment Act of 2020 that pave the way for Indian public companies to list...
The Pegasus spyware scandal that erupted in 2021 got fresh wind this week from Apple’s warning issued to some iPhone users in India that...
There may be hope for a resolution in negotiations between American EV-maker Tesla and India’s government. On Wednesday, Mint reported that the...
X, formerly Twitter, continues to bleed value, with the Elon Musk-owned platform now reportedly seen to be worth $19 billion, based on the pricing of...
Land is the oldest recognized factor of production, its ownership has been the fulcrum of a great ideological clash between capitalism and communism,...
Clouds of uncertainty over the Zee-Sony merger may have partially lifted, thanks to the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Monday setting aside an...
Investors who had subscribed to the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India initial share sale in May last year would be a disappointed lot today....
The efficient market hypothesis, by which all that participants know gets instantly priced in, has been rattled yet again by another bout of...
India’s decision to abstain from voting on a resolution at the United Nations (UN) calling for a “humanitarian truce" in the Israel-Hamas conflict...
Google Maps is our navigator-in-chief today. Buckle up, key in the destination, and off you go on the fastest route. It errs now and then, of course,...
How often do you find while doing a web check-in that all seat options on display have price tags, leaving you no choice but to pay extra for a flight...
As anxieties over growth grow globally amid geopolitical and economic threats, the trajectory of India’s economy appears relatively secure....
There we go again. First, a G20 invitation replaced “India" with “Bharat" as the country’s name. Now a panel appointed by the National Council...
India is not a country of sticklers, by and large. It explains why the Union finance ministry’s economic review for September could use the word...
If market signals alone are taken to indicate where an economy is headed, the latest from the US are worrying. The yield on the US 10-year bond this...
A survey by think-tank Janaagraha has revealed much of what ails urban planning in India. Despite the obvious pressures of rapid urbanization, it...
Parag Desai, executive director of the Wagh Bakri group, lost his life on Sunday in extraordinarily tragic circumstances. The 49-year-old succumbed to...
India’s triumphs as a spacefarer are showing no sign of slowing down. After its south-pole lunar landing in August, the Indian Space Research...
After much criticism over a hark-back to India’s Licence Raj, the government has softened its approach to laptop imports—and prudently so. To fix...
The Prime Minister’s announcement at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Mumbai that India will “leave no stone unturned" in its...
Google has announced plans to make its smartphones in India, starting with its Pixel 8. These India-made devices are expected to start rolling out in...
At first blush, the findings of the latest iteration of the annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) tell a happy story: India’s...
Elon Musk’s microblog platform X (formerly Twitter) seems more like a random variable by the day. On Wednesday, it began testing a new $1-per-year...
The rejection of same-sex marriage by India’s Supreme Court comes as a disappointment. It puts us out of step with the progressive world. Same-sex...
The slow uptake of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) at the retail level is not surprising. Despite the...
On Monday, the International Olympic Committee added cricket and five other sporting events to the programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. With...
Chiefs of global companies, including Elon Musk and Masayoshi Son, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts such as Geoffery Hinton and Yoshua Bengio...
Is the government softening its stand on the imposition of licensing for the import of laptops and computers? “On laptops, we are of the view that...
A sense of jubilation greeted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projection that India’s economy will grow 6.3% during 2023-24, placing it among...
It’s a double dose of positive news. Inflation has receded into the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 2-6% tolerance range and industrial production...
The revving sound of a vehicle’s engine is music to the ears of the ICE-age motorist. But the long-serving internal combustion engine (ICE) is being...
Mutual fund data for September shows that while the attraction of Indian investors to small and mid cap funds may have dipped, these are still holding...
Unlike the Ukraine war, India has not professed neutrality so far on the hostilities in West Asia. On 6 October, Hamas, the Palestinian militant group...