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India should axe its oil windfall tax

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...

04.01.2024 9

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Crowd-in must not start crowding investors out

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...

26.12.2023 7

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Human trafficking or a plain case of migration?

Human trafficking is the modern version of the olden-day slave trade. Suspicion of it explains why French authorities detained a Nicaragua-bound...

25.12.2023 7

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Digitization of land records will fast-track infra projects and fight poverty

In a landmark development, the digital land records of 13 major states and four Union territories (UTs) have been loaded onto the government’s...

15.12.2023 9

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Let’s take on Delhi's toxic air as a top-priority climate threat

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...

14.11.2023 10

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The SC’s IBC ruling pleases lenders, displeases promoters

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding legal provisions related to personal guarantors under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) could open the...

14.11.2023 8

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India?s demography demands that we talk about ageing before it?s too late

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...

10.11.2023 8

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Take a break, help raise productivity

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...

10.11.2023 10

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Politics as unusual: Who’s afraid of an all-India caste X-ray?

The politics of social justice has long held salience in India as an echo of the ‘class struggle’ of leftist extraction. As general elections...

09.11.2023 6

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Crude paradox: Global price slip even as war rages in West Asia

With the Israel-Hamas war intensifying, crude oil prices were expected to surge over concerns of supply disruptions in case hostilities widened. Yet,...

09.11.2023 7

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A ballot exercise and reminder of the Maoist menace

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...

08.11.2023 8

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China’s loss as India’s gain? Our world factory pitch calls for adaptive policy

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...

08.11.2023 6

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It is time for India's 97% to speak up against the Old Pension Scheme

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...

07.11.2023 20

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AQI woes: Delhi dusts off its old odd-even policy

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...

07.11.2023 7

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Free rations to caste census: BJP?s strategic clarity and ambiguity

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...

06.11.2023 10

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Global declarations about AI regulation may need a hubris check

Governments appear keener on claiming the right to become the alpha custodians of artificial intelligence (AI) governance than on striking a balance...

05.11.2023 5

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Hard work matters but India’s challenge is to turn workers into capitalists

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...

03.11.2023 10

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Foreign listings finally get a green light

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...

03.11.2023 7

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Spyware weary?

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...

01.11.2023 9

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A steep duty drop could rev up India’s EV market

There may be hope for a resolution in negotiations between American EV-maker Tesla and India’s government. On Wednesday, Mint reported that the...

01.11.2023 6

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An X axis problem

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...

31.10.2023 8

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Land acquisition clarity could be Singur’s legacy

Land is the oldest recognized factor of production, its ownership has been the fulcrum of a great ideological clash between capitalism and communism,...

31.10.2023 6

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Endless TV opera

Clouds of uncertainty over the Zee-Sony merger may have partially lifted, thanks to the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Monday setting aside an...

30.10.2023 4

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Learnings from LIC must guide PSU stake selloffs

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....

30.10.2023 3

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A moment of reckoning in geopolitics is upon us

The efficient market hypothesis, by which all that participants know gets instantly priced in, has been rattled yet again by another bout of...

29.10.2023 9

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It’s okay to abstain

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...

29.10.2023 10

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Multilingualism can be magical if it’s error-free

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,...

26.10.2023 3

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Unfair air fares

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...

26.10.2023 4

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India’s growth must not be taken as inevitable

As anxieties over growth grow globally amid geopolitical and economic threats, the trajectory of India’s economy appears relatively secure....

25.10.2023 3

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Sophist’s choice

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...

25.10.2023 2

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Either repeal or revise the country?s fiscal law

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...

24.10.2023 2

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Bond signals

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...

24.10.2023 2

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Indian urban planning needs a major overhaul

A survey by think-tank Janaagraha has revealed much of what ails urban planning in India. Despite the obvious pressures of rapid urbanization, it...

23.10.2023 8

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Stray dog menace

Parag Desai, executive director of the Wagh Bakri group, lost his life on Sunday in extraordinarily tragic circumstances. The 49-year-old succumbed to...

23.10.2023 7

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Gagan bound

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...

22.10.2023 7

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A Damocles sword hangs above laptop importers

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...

22.10.2023 7

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‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’: Save it for the economy

The Prime Minister’s announcement at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Mumbai that India will “leave no stone unturned" in its...

19.10.2023 10

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Pixel promise

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...

19.10.2023 9

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Our labour survey data is far from satisfactory

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...

18.10.2023 6

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The X charge

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...

18.10.2023 5

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A step back in time

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...

17.10.2023 2

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The e-rupee is like wine: It’ll take time to mature

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...

17.10.2023 2

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Cricket at Olympics

On Monday, the International Olympic Committee added cricket and five other sporting events to the programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. With...

16.10.2023 3

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Policy need not wait for consensus on AGI

Chiefs of global companies, including Elon Musk and Masayoshi Son, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts such as Geoffery Hinton and Yoshua Bengio...

16.10.2023 3

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Licensing step back?

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...

15.10.2023 9

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We must not overlook the risks IMF has noted

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...

15.10.2023 6

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Economy: Two cheers

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...

12.10.2023 2

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Our vroom addiction is making even EVs noisy

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...

12.10.2023 3

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Go long, really long

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...

11.10.2023 5

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Nuanced stance on Gaza could grant India gains

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...

11.10.2023 8

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