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It's Halloween Out There -- 31-Oct-24
As a toxic campaign nears its end, Don 'Trump-eone' gains ground, while Citizen Kamala hangs on.
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R R Rashmi |
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Baku's $1 Tn Question -- 31-Oct-24
There is an expectation that COP29 will have climate finance as its main business.
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Aditya Sinha |
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One Nation, One Check -- 30-Oct-24
Debate between centralisation and decentralisation often positions the former as a pariah, criticised for suppressing local autonomy.
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Chetan Ahya |
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Consumption Is Confucian -- 29-Oct-24
China must boost consumption to escape debt-deflation loop and better nominal GDP growth
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KM Chandrasekhar |
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Vizhinjam, a Model Port of Call -- 29-Oct-24
More than 50 years ago, Vizhinjam, located near Thiruvananthapuram, was a sleepy fishing village.
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Climate Picture Abhi Baku Hai -- 29-Oct-24
As the world gears up for COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, India finds itself at a crucial juncture in its climate diplomacy and sustainability journey.
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Ajit Pai |
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No Sweat Over Interest Rates -- 28-Oct-24
High CDR at Indian banks signals tighter credit growth, unfetter foreign banks to bridge the gap
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Sadaf Sayeed |
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Microfinance Isn’t Small, It’s Mighty -- 28-Oct-24
India’s microfinance industry plays a key role in financial inclusion, fostering women’s entrepreneurship, rural development and digital engagement.
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India, Get Ahead of Crypto Curve -- 28-Oct-24
During his first term in office, Donald Trump opposed crypto because he believed it undermined the dollar’s hegemony.
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Anuvinda Pulickal & Sujoy Chakravarty |
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Break the Classroom Divide -- 25-Oct-24
Social contact between different socioeconomic groups reduces prejudice, leverages untapped talent
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Subimal Bhattacharjee |
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Ride the AI, Energy Saddlebacked -- 25-Oct-24
This week, two AI stalwarts — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun — are in India.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Why We’ve Hit a Gold, Silver Streak -- 25-Oct-24
There is a shine to both gold and silver this festive season, touching record high prices.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Hear What He Said, Xi Said -- 24-Oct-24
China needed India at the table in Kazan to deal with its own problems that include US pushback
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Seema Sirohi |
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Can KH KO Teflon Don? -- 24-Oct-24
Old Man Donald ‘worked’ at a McDonald’s, E-I-E-I-O.
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Nicola Beer |
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Agra’s on the Move, Safely, Cleanly -- 23-Oct-24
Luxembourg : By 2030, more than 40% of India’s population is expected to live in cities due to rural-urban migration and natural population growth in urban areas.
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Ateesh Tankha & Ganga Narayan Rath |
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Is It Time to Dump eRs.? -- 22-Oct-24
Every enterprise depends on luck for its success.
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Ashok Malik |
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Not Another BRICS in the Wall -- 21-Oct-24
India’s role is to ensure the grouping doesn’t get a distortionary ideological edgeCHAPATI
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Roses are Blue, Violets are Red -- 18-Oct-24
Party lines are blurring in the US, as Republicans & Democrats swap traits
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Amitabh Kant |
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Make AI While the Sun Shines -- 18-Oct-24
Post-pandemic, we’ve seen a transformative revolution in tech: the rise of useful, universal and unlimited AI.
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Aditya Puri |
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Plug’n’Play to Get the Job Done -- 18-Oct-24
India with its burgeoning population faces a critical challenge of creating jobs.
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Poonam K Sidhu |
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Philanthrocrats vs Philanderers? -- 17-Oct-24
There's no one way of giving back — it can well extend beyond the confines of cheques and charity
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T V Ramachandran |
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Satellites Aren't Earthly -- 17-Oct-24
In 'Imagine', John Lennon not only painted a world with no boundaries, but also a world where 'above us, there's only sky'.
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Clutch the India Straw -- 16-Oct-24
Cairo : For two nations — India and Canada — that have been long-standing partners and don't seem to have strategic divergence, these are unprecedented times.
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Shivaji Dasgupta |
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WeCom to MeCom to PreCom -- 15-Oct-24
Festive shopping via ecommerce may be changing both consumer and societal behaviour
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Shahan Sud |
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Get Picky with Startups -- 15-Oct-24
India is a land of contrasts. On the one hand, there's 'Shining India'.
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Ashok Malik |
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Re-Generative ChatBJP -- 14-Oct-24
CHAPATI Its appeal isn't that it always wins, but its capacity for constant self-correction
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KumKum Dasgupta |
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Tech+Touch, Natural JV -- 14-Oct-24
India isn't for beginners, as a cheeky meme suggests.
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Omkar Goswami |
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The Titan Who Rebuilt Tata -- 11-Oct-24
RNT was as much about cleaning up the group as he was about taking it to new scales
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Bachi Karkaria |
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MILLENNIAL DUMBLEDORE -- 11-Oct-24
If someone said 'Millennial Dumbledore', would you, in your funkiest moment, think of Ratan Tata?
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Gurcharan Das |
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Conscience-Keeper of India Inc -- 11-Oct-24
When I was on the board of one of the Tata companies, at a meeting in Bombay House, Freddie Mehta, head of the company, invited a young man named Ratan to join us.
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GAUTAM ADANI |
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Tata, The Perfect Renaissance Man -- 11-Oct-24
An entire nation of 1.4 billion is now mourning the passing of Ratan Tata.
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An Aam Aadmi at Heart -- 11-Oct-24
JRD's pick to lead the group faced opposition from satraps unwilling to give up their fiefdoms.
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A Man of Conviction with the Art of Placing Unconventional Bets -- 11-Oct-24
Shortly after I lost my father, I received a telephone call. It was from Ratan Tata.
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Avinash Mohananey |
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Any Manipulation Via Nominated Members will Raise Doubts -- 10-Oct-24
People of J&K have given a split verdict — Kashmir valley and Muslim-dominated areas of Jammu region on one side and the remaining Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu region on the other.
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Kaushik Mukherjee & Narayan Kedia |
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Faster Rights Issue, But Careful Now -- 10-Oct-24
Sebi recently approved norms to enable faster rights issue, which is timeconsuming.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Cooperate, Consolidate, Continue -- 10-Oct-24
In a world beset with multiple crises, wars and disruptions, India and the US have managed to keep their focus on the future.
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Do Verdict Ka Dhamaka -- 09-Oct-24
POLLS If Haryana was a Cong own goal, J&K could be an albatross around NC-Cong's neck.
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Lower the Drawbridge Today, RBI -- 09-Oct-24
Headline inflation as measured by CPI has been below the RBI target of 4% y-o-y during July-August 2024. As an inflation-targeting central bank, RBI should, therefore, cut its policy rate by 25 bps after its MPC meeting today.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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AI Leading Us Up the Garden Path? -- 08-Oct-24
Humans may be essentially well intentioned. Certainly, technology mavens view themselves in this way.
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Sitting on the Cutting Edge -- 07-Oct-24
RBI guv's given enough signals he's not cutting rate — which markets have chosen to ignore.
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Amitabh Kant |
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Take Indore Activity All Over -- 07-Oct-24
Cities are key drivers of growth, and with ambitious targets, more than half of India's population is projected to live in urban areas.
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What You're Here, Not Everywhere -- 07-Oct-24
Last month, Delhi High Court upheld the plea of authorities to tax the permanent establishment (PE) of Hyatt International in India even if the global company incurs losses.
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Clean Up Those Startup Corners -- 04-Oct-24
This week marked the end of a longdrawn legal battle between BharatPe, aonce-rising fintech star valued at $2.7 bn (at its peak), and its cofounder Ashneer Grover.
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Arun Singh |
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Anxiety Over Next Phase of Israel-Iran Escalation -- 04-Oct-24
Potential implications on energy, fertiliser prices, shipping, even US presidential polls.
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Anil Nair |
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A Diet for Power-Hungry AI -- 04-Oct-24
Limiting energy consumption in AI is vital — look to the frugal human brain for pathways.
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Seema Sirohi |
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When No. 2s Outshine No. 1s -- 04-Oct-24
Truth be told, the vice-presidential candidates performed better in their debate than their bosses did in the presidential one.
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Kingshuk Chatterjee |
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Crossing The Red Line -- 03-Oct-24
ISRAEL-IRAN Brinkmanship by both sides has left the region confronting grave uncertainties
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Maryam Aslany |
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Oust the Islamic Republic for Peace -- 03-Oct-24
Iran's attacks on Israel remind the world, once again, of the great danger posed by the mullahs' regime.
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Vivek Aggrawal & Balasubramanian K |
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India, a StAR FinCrimefighter -- 03-Oct-24
Public institutions' capacity to design, implement and enforce policies is key to a country's development.
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Manish Banthia |
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Non-ferrous Metals Poised to Outshine Gold, Signals Show -- 03-Oct-24
US Yields, Chinese Stimulus Hint At Rebound
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The Great Stock'n'Awe Show -- 06-Sep-24
Is it the best of times, or the worst of times, or a bit of both, for India's enthused marketwalas?
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Amitabh Kant |
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City City Bang Bang & Future-Ready -- 06-Sep-24
Urbanisation and manufacturing have gone hand in hand. In post-World War 2 Japan, Tokyo and Osaka became centres of industrial production.
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Subimal Bhattacharjee |
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National Security, Privacy Limited? -- 06-Sep-24
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's recent arrest in France has reignited the debate on balancing user privacy with national security concerns in encrypted messaging platforms.
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Tuck Away, Depositors -- 31-Jul-24
It's the season for blockbuster deposit schemes as banks rush to shore up their deposit base to sustain a higher credit growth trajectory.
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Gautam Adani |
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Yellow Brick Road of India's Infra -- 30-Jul-24
Budget 2024 reflects a maturing economy on the rise.
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Anil Nair |
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Shed Light on Darkness Visible -- 30-Jul-24
Dark patterns, or deceptive patterns, are design tricks that make you do...
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Seema Sirohi |
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Kamala Bloom into POTUS? -- 29-Jul-24
Unlike Biden, Harris is feared by Republicans - and clicking the Democrat machine into motion.
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Rohit K Singh |
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Singularity Not Dur Ast -- 29-Jul-24
Futurist Ray Kurzweil's latest book, The Singularity is Nearer:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SONAL VARMA |
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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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Jay V Ojha |
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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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