General elections 2024: A weaker mandate to impel policy resetThe underwhelming election results reflect voters' focus on economic and livelihood issues over free-food distribution. The need for produc...
05 Jun, 2024, 01.50 PM IST
UK to bring in new law to quash wrongful Post Office convictionsFrom 1999 to 2015, self-employed sub-postmasters at state-owned Post Office branches faced convictions for theft, fraud, and false accounti...
10 Jan, 2024, 06.13 PM IST
In the battle between reality and the equity market, the real winner will always be the sameThe great Benjamin Graham once explained that in the short run, the market is like a voting machine but in the long run it’s like a weighin...
03 Aug, 2021, 10.19 AM IST
View: Inequality will keep haunting Indian economy long after Covid goes awayInequalities are morally wrong and politically corrosive. They are also bad economics. The huge consumption base of the bottom half of our ...
29 Jul, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
Secondary steel cos short of breath as O2 runs outSeveral secondary steelmakers, who contribute about 45% to India's total steel production, are on the verge of closing down as they can’t s...
27 Apr, 2021, 08.23 AM IST
View: How internet has created its own form of complementary commerceCashless commerce has thrived in parts of the world ever since the age-old barter system of trade — I’ll give you a sheaf of maize if you l...
26 Apr, 2021, 11.24 PM IST
View: Initiatives like PM’s Pariksha Pe Charcha set fresh benchmarks for leadership in India"After all, it’s easy to get complacent with the kind of public support the PM enjoys, but he seems to have chosen wisely to use the massiv...
12 Apr, 2021, 10.19 AM IST
View: By digressing from its vikas agenda, BJP is providing Didi a second windBJP leaders seem to be getting bored by their own sales pitch of MBGA — Make Bengal Great Again — through the straight and narrow of the pr...
24 Feb, 2021, 11.45 PM IST
Economic Survey: The barbell strategy that dictated India's response to the coronavirus pandemicThe strategy hedges for a worst outcome initially and then calibrates the response step by step through a feedback mechanism.
29 Jan, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
Budget 2021: How Nirmala Sitharaman can put India back on the growth trackToday, almost a year after Covid-19 descended on India, we are fully cognisant of the far-reaching impact of India’s healthcare system on p...
15 Jan, 2021, 12.04 PM IST
View: Joe Biden the restorative, not the restorerThe road to the Oval Office has been elliptical even before November 3. The fact that Biden was neither Bernie Sanders nor Hillary Clinton ...
07 Nov, 2020, 10.24 PM IST
Pakistan's COVID-19 mortality rate increases by 140 per cent; minister warns against ignoring guidelinesAt least 19 people died of coronavirus in Pakistan in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 6,692.
21 Oct, 2020, 11.56 AM IST
View: Workspaces must change, new production methods developed to get growth backSuch a thing has not happened in recorded history. How did that happen? Everyone is supposed to blame it on this collective fever called Co...
04 Sep, 2020, 01.24 AM IST
View: The many bottlenecks in making India work again and how to fix themPolicymakers have not adequately emphasised on change in demand composition in the country due to Covid crisis.
02 May, 2020, 12.08 AM IST
Unemployment at 17.8 million: India needs to look at skills development through multiple lensesThere is a need for 10 crore additional skilled personnel by 2022 in the country whereas 30 crore of the existing workforce requires furthe...
14 Oct, 2017, 11.42 AM IST
Helpless citizen 'warrior against corruption' in PM Modi's note-ban bidMany middle class Indians who have never had access to any unaccounted for wealth, are rejoicing that they are participating in the hunt.
20 Nov, 2016, 02.13 PM IST
The only sustainable solution for water crisis is mass movements designed and driven by local communities: Vasundhara RajeRajasthan has made a small start but we need to think harder about urbanisation, groundwater regulation and demand management.
21 Mar, 2016, 12.20 PM IST