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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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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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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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Turn Now, the Light’s Green -- 03-Nov-23
GoI must set up an empowered authority reporting to PMO to oversee India’s energy transition
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Ateesh Tankha & Ganga Narayan Rath |
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eRs.-W, Hunt a Chimaera? -- 03-Nov-23
In November 2022, India rolled out wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDC-W), a central bank digital counteraction to cryptocurrencies arising from a fear that these private virtual currencies could disrupt monetary policy and destabilise markets.
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Neelkanth Mishra |
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When DMs Become Ems -- 02-Nov-23
Rising US rates and treasury yields are affecting cross-border capital flows
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Sahil Kanuga & Maulin Salvi |
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G-Force of Startups -- 02-Nov-23
In the ever-evolving landscape of venture capitalism, one constant remains: pursuit of the next big thing.
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Vivek Johri |
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Ensuring All Systems Are Cargo -- 31-Oct-23
With the signing of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in 2017, trade facilitation in the context of customs and border procedures has been moving at a fast clip.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Line & Length on Growth, Not ’Flation -- 31-Oct-23
In its relentless fight against inflation, has the world dropped the ball on growth?
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Girish Punjabi |
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World’s Game for Business -- 30-Oct-23
Investors everywhere want a piece of the cricket action, as value creation picks up runs
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Praveen Chakravarty |
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India Inc, Confront Caste -- 30-Oct-23
Readers of this newspaper may find it difficult to discuss caste. The corporate sector rightly considers itself a meritocracy that looks at people only through their ability and not identity.
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Arnie Guha |
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India, Go for World-Broker -- 27-Oct-23
Alliance-forming has shifted from evangelical to trust-based, to New Delhi’s geopolitical advantage
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Dinesh Kanabar |
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Double Taxation Trouble -- 27-Oct-23
One of the pillars of cross-border trade are tax treaties, agreements to avoid double taxation between two countries.
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Kiran Karnik |
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Before We Get Breathing Space -- 26-Oct-23
Instead of sending humans to space, why not send less risky, cheaper AI-powered robots?
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Madan Sabnavis/Suranjali Tandon |
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GREEN FINANCE -- 26-Oct-23
Give the Market A Green Signal
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Ashok Malik |
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Bridge Over Troubled Water -- 25-Oct-23
How India’s role in West Asia plays out will have an enormous impact on its external strategy.
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Abheek Barua |
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Double Double Toil 'n' Trouble -- 24-Oct-23
Economic policymakers need a new playbook to tackle unexpected shocks.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Does Israel Need US Aid? -- 24-Oct-23
America’s response to Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians is a farcical tragedy.
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Seema Sirohi |
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SPAGHETTI WEST ASIAN -- 20-Oct-23
Joe Biden’s show of solidarity with Israel while acknowledging the plight of Palestinians is wise
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Weathering the Storms -- 20-Oct-23
On October 7, Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on Israel. The strike was akin to what India witnessed on November 26, 2008, in Mumbai.
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Duvvuri Subbarao |
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For a Fi$tful of Non-Dollars -- 19-Oct-23
There’s much dollar resentment, but politics and economics hobble BRICS common currency plans
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Krishna Srinivasan |
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Keep the Game Face On -- 19-Oct-23
Strong consumer spending has supported growth across most of Asia in 2023.
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Vikram Doctor |
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Left Standing at the Altar -- 18-Oct-23
India+ has come a long way since a scornful verdict designed to drive people back into the closet
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Harsh V Pant & Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy |
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Lanka No More Game -- 17-Oct-23
On October 11, the Sri Lankan government confirmed that it had completed its debt-restructuring negotiations worth $4.2 billion with the Export Import
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Manish Banthia |
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Economic Stability or Defending Dollar? US Fed Has a Tough Task -- 16-Oct-23
In the world of finance, the delicate balance between interest rates, economic growth, and global currency dynamics often holds the key to stability or turmoil.
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Anand Vasu |
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When Fans Got So Fanatic -- 16-Oct-23
A voluble proportion of India’s cricket spectatorship has something unsavoury in its kit.
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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
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Five Statements of Intent -- 12-Oct-23
With a Mandal vs Kamandal 2.0 thrown into the mix, these polls will test the efficacy of the Modi cult.
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Sujeet Kumar & Saksham Malik |
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Tweak It to Our Needs -- 12-Oct-23
On Tuesday, GoI announced the extension of the term of the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) until October 31.
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Seema Sirohi |
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A Canadian Nip in the Air -- 11-Oct-23
The US is caught between a treaty ally and a strategic partner at a time when Israel needs it most.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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BRICS, the Mortar of Competition -- 11-Oct-23
Competition is the life force of an inclusive economy. Fair competition ensures consumer welfare, a level playing field and sustained economic growth.
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Ajay Chhibber |
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From Billions to Trillions -- 11-Oct-23
A central focus of the ongoing World Bank-IMF meetings in earthquakehit Marrakech, Morocco, is progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Nicoline de Haan & Himanshu Pathak |
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Level Playing Farmland -- 10-Oct-23
This is India’s moment on the world stage. With the successful completion of its G20 presidency and significant strides towards ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’, India has made internationally recognised progress toward strong, balanced, sustainable and inclusive growth to safeguard the future of people and the planet.
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Rajiv Kumar & Harshvardhan Singh |
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XPORT MARKS THE SPOT -- 09-Oct-23
Raising India’s share in global exports is key for growth and employment generation
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Anant Merathia |
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Getting a Second Chance -- 09-Oct-23
Indians run businesses on trust, good faith, wisdom and sectoral competence.
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Deepro Guha |
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Need to Algo the Distance -- 06-Oct-23
Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through social media, wondering why you can’t stop?
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Subimal Bhattacharjee & Ambuj Sahu |
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India-US Tech-Tocking -- 06-Oct-23
Amid speculation that India’s diplomatic fallout with Canada could dent India-US relations, recent developments suggest that India and the US are back to business as usual.
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Indrajit Hazra |
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A New Appleonian Design -- 04-Oct-23
Apple’s latest push towards planetary ethics-aesthetics is powerful brand-positioning at work.
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Ateesh Tankha |
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Reckless to Be Cashless -- 03-Oct-23
What happens when Big Government, Big Tech and Big Finance unite to wage arelentless war on cash? In parts of the developed world.
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Ajay Sood |
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Gain Gyan Through Vigyan -- 29-Sep-23
Don't look for science advice only during emergencies, use it for informed policymaking.
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Naresh Trehan |
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Have a Heart to Heart -- 29-Sep-23
India is a young country. Unfortunately a silent intruder - cardiovascular diseases is impacting the health of the younger generation.
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Kiran Karnik |
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All Imagineers May Apply -- 28-Sep-23
An AI-boosted worksphere will demand people who can imagine new products, services, processes.
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Subhrakant Panda |
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Unclog the Credit Lines -- 28-Sep-23
In pushing for greater inclusivity,India recognises the social and economic imperative of broad-based growth.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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OCEN of Opportunity -- 27-Sep-23
After two years of experiments with various pilots, Open Credit Enablement Network was launched recently.
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Rajesh Shukla |
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For a Bindiyan Workforce -- 26-Sep-23
India’s women’s labour force participation rate is dismal. To reverse this trend, educate them better
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Union States of America? -- 26-Sep-23
The US labour market is the hottest it has been in more than half a century. The unemployment rate has been less than 4% for almost two years.
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Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee |
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It Could Pay to Pay to Tweet -- 25-Sep-23
Getting consumers to pay for the benefit of using a public square may be a good, disruptive thing
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Akshay Rout |
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Planning for One Mega Carnival -- 25-Sep-23
The first meeting of the committee on ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE) chaired by former president Ram Nath Kovind took place on Saturday.
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See You Later, 'Allegation -- 21-Sep-23
Did Trudeau throw India under the bus before a public inquiry brings uncomfortable facts to light?
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Arvind Panagariya |
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Delhi Exerted G20 Force -- 21-Sep-23
A day before the G20 summit, I had made three predictions
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Harsh V Pant |
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Stand-Up Justin, Stand Down -- 20-Sep-23
Trudeau has lost the plot on India, and things are unlikely to get better under his administration
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Rohit K Singh |
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Dial C for Customer Care -- 20-Sep-23
In the ever-changing landscape of global commerce and trade, a critical fulcrum balances the scales between producers and consumers.
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Anjana Menon |
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Falling Far From the Tree -- 19-Sep-23
The star in Apple’s products launch last week was Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer.
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Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha |
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Snakecharming Those Data -- 12-Sep-23
Of economists, echo chambers and exoticism — the trifecta of anti-India critiques via cherry-picking
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Sanjay Kapoor |
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Can 5G Pick Up Speed? -- 12-Sep-23
As of June, 240-plus communications service providers (CSPs) have launched commercial 5G services worldwide.
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G20D MORNING, HUMANITY -- 07-Sep-23
Under India's presidency, G20 has moved towards a human-centric globalisation project
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V Ranganathan |
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Let IIMs Run, IIMs, Run -- 01-Sep-23
When IIM-A decided to award diplomas to students instead of opting for a degreegranting status, it was to distance itself from UGC and its bizarre rules.
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Sandeep Parekh & Rashmi Birmole & T K Arun |
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WANTED: AN EXIT STRATEGY -- 31-Aug-23
Ease delisting cos, especially those on defunct exchanges, and be fair to investors and delisters
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Saibal Ghosh |
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Right-Colouring One’s Funds -- 31-Aug-23
Jan Evangelista Purkinje, a 19th century Czech physiologist, discovered that colours that appeared brightest to human eyes in daylight appeared the darkest at dusk.
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Ashok Malik |
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The Continuity Constituency -- 30-Aug-23
Modi’s urging this growing target group that wise choices today can impact India for ‘centuries’
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Seema Sirohi |
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Fear & Loathing for 2024 -- 30-Aug-23
What you have been dreading or waiting for — depending on your point of view — is nigh. The 2024 presidential election will be an endurance test, even a reality test. Old rules may not apply.
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India’s Got Spear headed -- 29-Aug-23
Neeraj Chopra represents not only a new breed of world-beating Indian athletes, but also of Indians
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Gauri Chaudhari |
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A Bitter Pill to Swallow -- 29-Aug-23
The National Medical Commission’s (NMC) decision last week to put on hold its August 3 rule mandating doctors to prescribe only generic drugs or face punishment is welcome.
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Woke Up? Smell the Coffee -- 28-Aug-23
Money and margins speak louder than social justice, and certainly than virtue-signalling
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Vivek Joshi |
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Getting More Into the Money Circle -- 28-Aug-23
The National Mission on Financial Inclusion, a.k.a. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), was launched on this day in 2014.
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GST Lumps Need Smoothening -- 28-Aug-23
The GST regime, having recently celebrated its sixth anniversary, stands as aremarkable achievement in the Indian tax landscape.
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First, Have a Head for Meds -- 25-Aug-23
The generics-only prescription rule does not make sense when quality of drugs remains suspect
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Russia Sanctions-Proof? -- 25-Aug-23
Have Western economic sanctions on Russia failed? GDP growth data since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and projections from multilateral organisations and Western banks for 2023 and 2024 suggest that they have.
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Khoya Khoya CHAAND, Khula Aasmaan -- 24-Aug-23
Chandrayaan-3 burnishes ISRO’s reputation for amazing science, done with amazing frugality
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Rajiv Kumar & Nikhil Gupta |
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Better Save Than Worry -- 24-Aug-23
In India, there has always been greater attention on investment trends than on savings. For instance, the sharp decline in the investment rate from its peak of 39% of GDP in FY12 to 31% of GDP in FY23 attracted much attention.
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Amitabh Kant & Satwik Mishra |
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Our Eye Firmly on AI -- 23-Aug-23
India’s use of technology to turbocharge socioeconomic development is now a globally celebrated phenomenon. Our digital public infrastructure (DPI) interventions have promoted choice, competition…
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Why Should OTTs Pay? -- 22-Aug-23
On August 14, this page published ‘Netflex Your OTT Muscles’, by V Sridhar, Rohit Prasad and Mansi Kedia. In the piece, the authors argued that OTTs that are large traffic generators (LTGs)…
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Abheek Barua & Sakshi Gupta |
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Don’t Bank on Predictions -- 21-Aug-23
Deviations from consensus expectations have rattled both domestic as well as global markets
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Pays to Avoid Disaster -- 21-Aug-23
As countries grow and expand their economies, their risk exposure also increases. Natural disasters can cause massive damage to assets and investments in vulnerable areas.
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Anoop Jain & SV Subramanian |
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Don’t Sit on SBM’s Success -- 18-Aug-23
Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 must ensure access to, and maintenance of, quality toilets for all
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Harsh V Pant & Vivek Mishra |
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More Dips After CHIPS -- 18-Aug-23
Last Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the CHIPS and Science Act 2022 ushered by the Joe Biden administration to advance US’ competitive edge vis-à-vis China
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Angrezon ke Zamane ke Jailer -- 17-Aug-23
India’s criminal justice system needs real decolonising, and must go beyond mere textual changes
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Sanjeev Sanyal & Aakanksha Arora |
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Exit Biz Minus Hassles -- 17-Aug-23
While attention on economic policy tends to focus on large structural reforms, many required changes tend to be the ‘nuts and bolts’ process reforms.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Not a Knockout Punch -- 16-Aug-23
The process of ‘derisking’ the US economy from China is moving slowly, but surely. Last week, President Joe Biden signed a much-awaited executive order to limit and regulate new investment...
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V Sridhar, Rohit Prasad & Mansi Kedia |
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Netflex Your OTT Muscles -- 14-Aug-23
LTGs should pay a Broadband Infrastructure Levy proportional to their traffic on the internet
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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
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Go Through the Motion -- 14-Aug-23
In a country where cricketing metaphors are routine while talking politics, last week’s debate on the no-confidence motion was analogous to a warm-up game.
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Saibal Dasgupta |
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Chinese Port Dumplings -- 10-Aug-23
China is recceing various spots, especially in South Asia, to set up overseas military bases.
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Time For a Clean Sweep -- 10-Aug-23
In July, GoI began Swachh Survekshan (SS) 2023, the world’s largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey.
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Don’t Permit a Licence Raj -- 09-Aug-23
The Narendra Modi government has restricted the import of laptops, tablets, etc, in its effort to support ‘Make in India'.
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Never Too Big to Fail -- 09-Aug-23
Recently, America's big four banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank — posted excellent results helped by resurging net interest income (NII), accrued from steadily climbing interest rates.
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Chintan Vaishnav, Vijay Shekhar Sharma & Rajan Anandan |
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G20fy the Startup Space -- 08-Aug-23
The global economy crossed the $100 trillion mark for the first time in 2022, but it's in a precarious position.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Flying All Over the Place -- 07-Aug-23
Transport is the lifeline of an economy. Today, India is the third largest aviation market globally, thanks to robust infrastructure, new state-of-the-art airports, multiple airlines, and a large passenger base.
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Anil Nair |
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This Cable Remains King -- 04-Aug-23
Rights laws and maintenance can keep critical underwater cables — and the internet - shipshape
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KumKum Dasgupta |
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Swinging With the Rain -- 04-Aug-23
The Bundelkhand region, which straddles Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is one of the worst drought-prone areas of India. Come summer, people are stressed.
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Rajan Anandan |
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The World Is Their Oyster -- 03-Aug-23
Earlier this year, Bengalurubased Digantara hitched a ride on SpaceX's Transporter 6 mission to launch a micro-satellite designed to help astronauts and telcos navigate the massive sprawl of space debris orbiting Earth.
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Indrajit Hazra |
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Unease of Doing Business -- 03-Aug-23
If there is one thing that India Inc dislikes more than experiencing unease of doing business, it is publicly acknowledging unease of doing business.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Getting All Spaced Out -- 02-Aug-23
Imagine this : an Indian astronaut could be at the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024, making history as the first Indian to participate in the world's longest-running programme in space.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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Moving, On Different Strokes -- 01-Aug-23
India is no longer an abjectly poor nation. But it faces an equally compelling challenge: inequality.
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R Venkataraman |
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Markets Headed for a Correction? Good Question -- 31-Jul-23
Amid this roaring bull market, I recently met a long-standing broking client in Delhi and guess what? He appeared sad.
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Ashok Malik |
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Crystal-Ball Gazing Into '24 -- 31-Jul-23
Where the needle has, and hasn't, shifted prior to the upcoming state polls and the Big One
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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Singapore Slingvestments All Over -- 31-Jul-23
India has become the most soughtafter investment destination for Singapore and its government-owned companies like Temasek.
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Amar Patnaik |
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Data Dangers, Hasten Safety Belts -- 31-Jul-23
Data goes through different stages and processes before it can be monetised or used for social objectives. This includes data collection, access, storage, processing and analysis.
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Ananda Datla |
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Atpadi's Watershed Water Solution -- 25-Jul-23
When you cross Solapur on your way to Mumbai, vast swathes of dry land on either side of the highway are punctuated by parcels of cultivated land.
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Lubna Kably |
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HRA to Spouse: Truth or Dare? -- 25-Jul-23
Curiouser and curiouser. One can't help but echo Alice of Wonderland fame after reading various judicial and quasi-judicial decisions relating to allowability of house rent allowance (HRA), in those instances where rent has been paid to a close relative such as spouse or a parent.
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Jaideep Khanna |
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Market View of Rates and Asset Prices Disconnected -- 24-Jul-23
The global financial system may have shrugged off the series of banking collapses in the US and Europe earlier this year
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Rajesh Shukla |
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Middle Takes Centre Stages -- 24-Jul-23
India's middle class is expanding, thanks to rapid urbanisation. This will reshape the economy
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Shantanu Nandan Sharma |
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Don't Let the Manipur Pot Boil Over -- 24-Jul-23
India's Northeast is a melting pot of several ethnic groups with diverse cultures and traditions.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Walking the Talk Before Poll Time -- 24-Jul-23
For democracies to deliver, it's their bureaucracies that ultimately must.
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Dipankar Bhattacharyya |
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Love in These Craizy Times -- 21-Jul-23
Tech stocks look unstoppable now, especially fuelled by the seven biggest AI-pool companies
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Monojit Mazumdar |
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Are You Experienced? -- 21-Jul-23
In B Joseph Pine and James H Gilmore's 1999 book, The Experience Economy, the authors tell us to consider a ‘true commodity': the coffee bean.
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Varun Gandhi |
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Not Just a Conservation Point -- 20-Jul-23
With Parliament reconvening today, the amended Forest Bill is up for approval. What of our wildlife?
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Hone Our Healer Instinct -- 20-Jul-23
Medical tourism in India has been growing at a galloping pace. Interestingly, among the top 10 countries from where medical tourists arrive...
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Chris West,Rijit Sengupta & Pratibha Baveja |
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G20 Climate Action -- 19-Jul-23
Faced with record heatwaves and biodiversity loss, G20 must urgently consider how to achieve a net-zero world economy and the robust protection of nature.
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Bhaswati Mukherjee |
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PM's France Visit: Re-setting of Strategic Manoeuvres -- 18-Jul-23
Indo-French connect brings stability & support to India's presidency of G20 amid intractable Ukraine-Russia conflicts
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Prabal Basu Roy |
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Take the Mickey Out of OTT -- 18-Jul-23
Disney, Netflix plummets show the absolute need to tame the industry's pricing and cost beasts
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Nikhil Pahwa |
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You Bet It's Still Gambling! -- 17-Jul-23
By taxing real-money gaming at 28% like gambling, GST Council rightly conflates the two sectors
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Dharmendra Chandurkar |
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Time to Teach Our Cities to Swim -- 17-Jul-23
Indian cities are increasingly becoming flood-prone. Unfortunately, this is the new normal.
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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Space Exploration Also Lies Below -- 17-Jul-23
Earlier this month, China imposed export controls on the sale of gallium and germanium, two little-known minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors.
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Anil Nair |
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Thank God It's Moonday -- 14-Jul-23
Today's launch of Chandrayaan-3 could be the start of India becoming a serious contender in space
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Tushar Gore & Yoav Dori |
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Hack Anti-Ageing Hacks -- 14-Jul-23
The joke is that most people rate public speaking as their No. 1 fear — ahead of death. Public speaking, unlike death, is a problem with a solution.
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Laveesh Bhandari |
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More Bang for the CSR Buck -- 13-Jul-23
To make corporate social spending more impactful, change the laws, rules and processes
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Indrajit Hazra |
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Remember the Forgotten Punchline -- 13-Jul-23
Milan Kundera's ‘curse' was that he was all the rage in the 1980s as the literary world's poster boy for anticommunism.
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Dhanendra Kumar |
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If You're a Platform, Pay -- 13-Jul-23
Today's world is digital, and tech platforms are making the most of it.
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Arvind Agarwal |
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How to Survive Death Valley -- 12-Jul-23
Many startups perish due to funds crunch. Impact investment funds can throw them a lifeline
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Gurjit Singh |
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Go Beyond the Safari -- 12-Jul-23
India's G20 presidency has reinvigorated its relationship with Africa.
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R Jagannathan |
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Your Position, Opposition? -- 10-Jul-23
The Opposition has no compelling story to tell the electorate. It needs one big idea to unite
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Manish Maheshwari |
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Will Twitter Be Torn to Threads? -- 10-Jul-23
In social media, the landscape is ever-changing, giving newcomers opportunities to challenge the status quo.
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Harsh V Pant & Kalpit Mankikar |
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Hot 'n' Sour to Sweet 'n' Sour -- 10-Jul-23
US treasury secretary Janet Yellen visited China on a four-day trip last week to mend the fraught relationship between two of the world's largest economies.
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Shishir Gupta |
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Look Beyond Logistics -- 07-Jul-23
GoI has been relentlessly focusing on improving the country's infrastructure. The share of capex in GDP has been rising gradually from 1. 7% in FY14 to a proposed 3. 3% in FY24.
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Pushan Das & Arjit Roshan |
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US-India, Brothers in Arms -- 06-Jul-23
India's indigenous defence capabilities can't be developed in isolation but through partnerships
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Seema Sirohi |
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Negative to Affirmative -- 05-Jul-23
This is not a normal court,' President Joe Biden said of the US Supreme Court, and he is right. The court's conservative supermajority has taken a hammer to everything liberal Americans hold sacred — most significantly
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Mike Waltz |
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Reap Democratic Dividend -- 12-Jun-23
What Prime Minister Narendra Modi should focus on in his joint address to the US Congress
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Akshay Rout |
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Test for Poll Referees and Players -- 12-Jun-23
By ordering another special summary revision of electoral rolls in the five assembly election-bound states later this year
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Dhiraj Nim & Khoon Goh |
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Let's Be a Jolly Good Export -- 09-Jun-23
India can emerge as the new export powerhouse if it enhances its foreign trade ecosystem.
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Kiren Rijiju |
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India's Blue Economy Sets Sail to Unlock a Sea of Opportunities! -- 08-Jun-23
“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself,” wrote English adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1829.
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Mythili Bhusnurmath |
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RBI, Give It a Rest, Will You? -- 08-Jun-23
The vastly different scenario in which MPC meets this week warrants a rate-hike pause today
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Seema Sirohi |
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Rahul G's Big Day Out -- 08-Jun-23
Rahul Gandhi has clearly learnt a few lessons in public diplomacy, if not all. Thousands joined his American yatra from California to New York via Washington to cheer for an ‘inclusive' vision of India.
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Michiel Baas |
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Don't Worry, Be HAIppy -- 31-May-23
Disassociate AI from its pop cultural depictions and engage with its actual functioning and limitations.
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Prakash Balakrishnan |
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In the Dollar, We Trust? -- 31-May-23
According to the Puranas, Lord Venkateshwara, a. k. a. Balaji, took a large loan from Kuber, the god of wealth, to cover the expenses associated with his marriage to Devi Padmavati.
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Jyotsna Puri & Jahan Chowdhury |
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Ride Financing Wind Channels -- 30-May-23
In 2020, $83. 3 billion in climate finance was channelled to developing countries. This fell far short of the sums required to support plans for meeting their climate goals written in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
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Jagjeet Sareen & Manjeev S Puri |
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Climate Swivel, Be Market-Wise -- 30-May-23
India's Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023 outlines a vision to boost the country's exports of goods and services to $2 trillion by 2030, up from the current $750-odd billion.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Modi's Manmohan Moment? -- 29-May-23
This US visit could be as pathbreaking as the one in 2005
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Sankar Chakraborti |
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MONOPOLIES -- 29-May-23
Healthy competition and a level playing field are important aspects of amature economy.
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Anil Nair |
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Clear and Present DAInger -- 26-May-23
By setting up INDIAai, GoI shows it's serious about having an AI rules framework and regulation
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Abhishek Singhvi & Pradeep S Mehta |
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Build a Trade Narrative -- 26-May-23
Despite poor projections on the slowdown in international trade, India has set itself an ambitious target of achieving $2 trillion exports by 2030.
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Sonal Varma Aurodeep Nandi |
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Rs.eturn on Investment -- 25-May-23
UPI, static currency use & formalisation will absorb the exaggerated post-death claims of the Rs.2,000 bill
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Bibek Debroy, Bjørn Lomborg & Aditya Sinha |
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Don't Postpone Fighting Hunger -- 25-May-23
In a world where the symphony of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) plays a cacophony of unfulfilled promises, the tragedy of global malnutrition and hunger is the dissonant note.
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Amitabh Kant |
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Credit to Digital Banks -- 24-May-23
India's fintech sector has been a global bellwether. It attracted $5. 7 billion in funding in 2022 alone, with over 550 startups receiving $25 billion in funding.
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Madan Sabnavis |
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USA, Do It Our Way -- 23-May-23
The one thing common among US presidents, whether George W Bush, Barack Obama or Joe Biden, is that they have all had to tackle the issue of debt ceiling — that is, going back to the basics to keep government running.
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Omkar Goswami |
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India Has Its Work Cut Out -- 22-May-23
Whichever way you look at the numbers, we're staring at a crisis of jobs that needs tackling ASAP
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Hindol Sengupta |
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Up and All Over With Down Under -- 22-May-23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Australia this week underlines the importance of India-Australia ties.
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Neeraj Kaushal |
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Track the M-Curve More Closely -- 22-May-23
The Hindu right often argues that India has the second-largest number of Muslims in the world, and their rising numbers is evidence that Muslims aren't doing too badly.
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Abheek Barua & Sakshi Gupta |
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But Will It Rise and Shine? -- 19-May-23
A$5 trillion Indian economy is possible. The challenge ahead is to bring growth back up to 7.5%.
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Sandip Patel |
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AI-ing Our Businesses -- 19-May-23
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has created much excitement about the potential of AI applications that is here to stay, and could very well dramatically transform how we live, work and interact.
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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How Gas Knocked Out BJP -- 18-May-23
As aspirations of India's electorate grow, inflation is finding new touchpoints with the masses
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Anjana Menon |
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DemographAIc Dead End? -- 18-May-23
Nithin Kamath is an outlier. Last week, the founder of Zerodha, the wildly successful trading platform, announced on Twitter that his company now uses artificial intelligence (AI) that could replace some jobs that he is choosing to keep.
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Seema Sirohi |
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Modi Goes to America -- 17-May-23
Joe Biden's invitation to Narendra Modi for a ‘state visit' marks an important milestone.
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Sanjeev Sanyal & Apurv Mishra |
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Measure for Measure -- 16-May-23
A major irritant for doing business in India is an obscure law called the Legal Metrology Act (LMA) 2009 that deals with metrological standards pertaining to measurement and its application.
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Gilles Verniers & Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay |
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Face Karnatik Music -- 15-May-23
The Karnataka verdict shows up the limits of Brand Modi and the possible making of a new opposition space
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Aurodeep Nandi |
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Low Growth, Low Inflation Ahoy -- 15-May-23
Lenin had famously said there are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen. Be it Russian streets or financial ones, when cycles turn for the worse, economic data tend to deteriorate quite rapidly.
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Ashok Malik |
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Non-Alignment Fantasists -- 12-May-23
Orthodoxies outside government are fixating on US-India divergences than strategic commonalities
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Lubna Kably |
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Give Him His Own Money -- 12-May-23
Areader who wanted to spend his summer vacation lazing away on the shores of the Maldives sent us an email on the ‘draconian' tax collection at source (TCS) regime, which is applicable on remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS).
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Manoj Joshi |
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Pakistan st. Pindi b. Imran -- 11-May-23
What makes the present situation most serious is that it comes layered upon other problems
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Gurjit Singh |
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India's Bright Continent -- 11-May-23
In the post-pandemic period, there is a greater imperative for India in economically engaging with Africa. In 2019, the continent was on the verge of a transition from aid to trade and investment.
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GR Gopinath |
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GoneAir With the Wind -- 09-May-23
Few can resist the allure of running an airline. Fewer still can manage to tackle its business side
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Aashi Gupta, Vani S Kulkarni & Raghav Gaiha |
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Does Faith Make You Live Better? -- 09-May-23
Amartya Sen offered a formidable critique of measuring the standard of living in terms of opulence in his 1987 book, The Standard of Living.
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Bibek Debroy, Bjørn Lomborg & Aditya Sinha |
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TB, Or Not TB? That Is the Question -- 09-May-23
In Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, Les Misérables, Fantine falls victim to tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that ravaged many lives in 19th-century Europe
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Omkar Goswami |
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So, Who Owns the Land? -- 08-May-23
Remembering historian Ranajit Guha and his seminal study on the 1793 Permanent Settlement
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Dhiraj Nayyar |
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What India Needs is Speed -- 08-May-23
Ten years ago, when then-prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi promised India bullet trains, he probably did not bargain for the system's resistance to high speed.
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Anil Nair & Himani Agarwal |
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS -- 05-May-23
ENTERPRISE DATA being piped from the cloud, instead of own servers, has brought a paradigm shift, creating more flexibility, security and options, along with shaving costs.
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Sanjeev Sanyal & Srishti Chauhan |
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A Patent Improvement -- 02-May-23
The need to upgrade India's patenting capacity was highlighted last year in an August 2022 working paper, ‘Why India Needs to Urgently Invest in its Patent Ecosystem', published by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (bit. ly/41X8PhR).
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Subramaniam R Iyer |
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An Ease of Passing On Index -- 28-Apr-23
Create a UIDAI-type portal for family members of the deceased who are overwhelmed by paperwork
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Ankit Sahni, Bhaven Shah & Vilasini Pollisetty |
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IPR for Corporate Her -- 28-Apr-23
According to a 2019 Google and Bain & Company report, ‘Powering the Economy With Her' (bit. ly/3VbS2F9), there are 13. 5-15. 7 million women-owned enterprises in India, representing 20% of all Indian enterprises.
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A K Sharma |
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SWAGAT, Most Welcome -- 27-Apr-23
A prime illustration of Narendra Modi's approach to governance is SWAGAT (State-Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology).
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Kaustubh Verma & Soumyasree Chakraborty |
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Gas, A Solid Opportunity -- 26-Apr-23
Despite much buzz around us being apparently living in the ‘Golden Age of Gas', gas still comprises about 6% of India's primary energy mix. Specifically, compressed natural gas (CNG) accounts for about 3% of annual vehicle sales.
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Prakash Chandra |
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India Inc, Watch This Space -- 25-Apr-23
2023 space policy can unlock India's role in a $500 billion global economy with industry participation
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Anil Padmanabhan |
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A New Threat Lexicon -- 25-Apr-23
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its Fiscal Monitor that surveys and analyses the latest public finance developments.
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Bibek Debroy & Sanjeev Sanyal |
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The Wrong Kind of Buzz -- 24-Apr-23
An NFHS question shows why questionnaires need to be reworked and updated from first principles
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