Opinion

The answer to everything is not 42; It’s legislation!

This sort of political escapism has become routine, even as problems multiply in number, scope and complexity

Tax regime

The Budget should aim to make the new tax regime more attractive for individuals

Let’s latch on to hyperloop rail

We should take a leaf out of China’s play book and invite foreign investors to develop commercial projects

The geo-politics of gas pipelines

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From the Viewsroom

Slate

All you wanted to know about Algo trading

All you wanted to know about conflict of interest

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Strategic Petroleum Reserves

Statistalk

The Cheat Sheet

Space internet is taking flight

Despite Kathua barbarity, death penalty is no deterrent

The politics and economics of horse-trading

Letters

Letters to the Editor dated January 26, 2022

This refers to ‘Coming, a Budget for consolidation’ (January 26). The Budget exercise is always a deft balancing act. Finance Ministers have to en

Letters to the Editor dated January 25, 2022

Apropos ‘Need for fiscal consolidation’ (January 25), it goes without saying that no economy can achieve its targeted growth unless its policies a

Letters to the Editor dated January 24, 2022

Letters to the Editor dated January 20, 2022

This refers to the article 'Product innovation, availability of retail finance to drive farm mechanisation' (January 20). It is quite true that in the

Letters to the Editor dated January 19, 2022

Letters to the Editor dated Jan 18, 2022

Punjab polls and farmers

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Books

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India’s service revolution

Services sector has driven growth, cut poverty

End of easy money

The RBI may have to follow the Fed in acknowledging the threat posed by inflation

Repositioning the objectives of financial inclusion in India

The pathways from inclusion to welfare, in particular, remain largely unknown

Bank mergers PSU banks: Any takers?

Mergers of govt banks may be better than sell-off

Pocket: On coded cash

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A green approach to producing steel

The use of green hydrogen as fuel could help phase down coal, and enable India to move towards net-zero emissions

India’s Afghan policy, a tricky affair

With the Taliban not changing their stripes, India is working closely with Afghanistan’s western neighbours in devising policy

Letters to the editor dated December 15, 2021

Future pandemic response

Surveillance and diagnostics will play key roles

Rationalising HSN codes

This is imperative to cut litigation over GST rates

Billionaire entrepreneurs are the new outer space players

For most middle income countries, spending on space exploration is simply too expensive

Preventive strike

RBI’s move to sweep NBFCs into PCA framework is fine, but it may involve too many exclusions

The agri-tech network effect is transforming India’s rural ecosystem, one smallholder farmer at a time

There’s a great opportunity to connect these farmers to an integrated value chain, unlock their potential and realise tremendous financial

India’s unequal growth journey

For sustained growth and development, the spending power of the poor has to increase continuously

Letters to the editor date December 14, 2021

Why cryptocurrencies must be regulated

Cryptocurrency is an asset that has no intrinsic value. It is driven up by speculative frenzy

Sticky to the core

Besides global factors, structural inflation, which is sticky, might be setting in. The RBI should be ready

Bridging the gap in logistics infrastructure

Apart from the initiatives taken, greater private sector participation and access to cheap, long-term finance are vital

Reimagining SHGs

They need handholding from banks, NGOs

The increasing importance of cloud in the new normal

Cloud companies have been helping organisations across the globe make the green shift towards reducing their carbon footprint

The looming crisis in State finances

States, which were under pressure even before the pandemic struck, are now facing a fiscal crisis that is bound to drag down the economy

A cross-border leap for insolvency reforms

Insolvencies can have cross-border implications. An insolvency framework that lays down common principles is crucial

A place for algo

Excessive curbs on algo trading by small investors are unnecessary

Why SEBI is planning to regulate Algo Trading

Cryptos lack basic features of a currency

They have no underlying basis, and are too volatile to be a store of value. Can they truly take the place of cash?

Letters to the editor dated December 13, 2021

UPI booster

RBI’s plan to initiate UPI on feature phones to wean retail payments away from cash is good

homegrown leaders Time to make in India, and for India

India needs leaders who create products for its citizens. That is the difference between, say, a Sundar Pichai and a JRD Tata

Why India always misses the innovation bus

Fearing the risk of failure, very little R&D funding goes towards innovative ventures and emerging technologies

A ‘panchamrit’ formula to boost Indian agriculture

Improving the commodity markets, supporting smallholder competitiveness and making agricultural systems more environmentally sustainable are among mea

India in Transition The problem with women’s entrepreneurship

Women are to turn entrepreneurial even within a social order that still expects them to perform household work, reproduce caste and class, and prepare

short take Don’t call it exodus, please

Some say the so-called ‘brain-drain’ is happening because India is still mired in poverty and inequality. This is simply a wrong cause-effect attr

Below the line

Meeting green targets through biomass

Biomass can be an effective means to raise the green footprint but there are some issues that need to be resolved

Chips Ahoy!

The EV race looks set to be a high voltage thriller with brands that have no history of car-making entering the fray. Will access to cells and chips b

Chip shortage: Buyers go for new Creta variants with lesser features

Buyers opt for the Creta models with lower number of semiconductors to avoid the long waiting period

Alt energy How dirty coal power is taking a beating

Coal is certainly on its way out with 326 GW of coal-fired power plants scrapped since 2015, and no announcements of new plants

4 things to do after filing your tax returns

Are you sitting back relaxed, having beaten the December 31 deadline to file income tax returns? Wait, there’s more to do!

Index Outlook: Will Sensex and Nifty 50 see a strong turnaround?

Inability to break the crucial resistances keeps alive the broader bearish view

Bullion Cues: Bulls gaining momentum

While gold is yet to break out, silver cracks a key resistance

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up