Easing of windfall tax, a breather for oil firms Easing of windfall tax, a breather for oil firms The tax will offset revenue forgone via excise duty cuts on fuel
Rail Budget: Hits and misses Rail Budget: Hits and misses View: Sudhanshu Mani, Former GM, Indian Railways
Budget agenda: near-term growth support and mid- term fiscal roadmap Budget agenda: near-term growth support and mid- term fiscal roadmap A consumption boost to revive sentiments is a distinct likelihood in this Budget
Retail investors need protection. From themselves Retail investors need protection. From themselves The combination of lack of understanding risk factors and investor greed is a deadly financial cocktail
Hinterland India’s booming smaller cities The infotech industry is heading a charge to tier-2 and tier-3 cities and this has been speeded up by the pandemic
Carbon capture and global warming ‘Carbon capture’ refers to the techniques used to gather carbon dioxide emissions and put them away so that they don’t cause harm
Insurance Health insurance sector to continue growing in 2022 Since Covid, health insurance premiums have been the main driver of the non-life industry
Forex A perfect storm awaits the rupee in 2022 The RBI will have to use the forex kitty it has built over the past year to maintain stability in the forex market
New farm deal Will agri-biz model benefit farm sector? Unlikely from a sustainability standpoint, as most agri-tech firms focus only on supply chains and market linkages
Unprecedented uncertainty awaits India Inc As the world enters 2022, the decision-making skills of Indian business leaders will be tested like never before
Will Akasa Air’s contra bet on Boeing 737 Max instead of Airbus pay off? Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airline has gone against the tide, placing its bets on Boeing aircrafts; it now needs to carve out a niche for itself
Breastfeeding, a responsibility, not choice Rate of initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth has declined in 5 years
Blockchain: Piloting the future of aviation Enables effective solutions that positively impact industry players and end consumers
Q1 FY23: OMCs bleed due to marketing losses Prices of motor fuels were kept at levels equivalent to $75-80 per barrel of crude
Bharti Airtel Q1: Inline results and stable operating metrics Results reflect consistent progress made in recent quarters
IRB beats estimates in Q1FY23, but the stock is expensive The company is trading at a one year forward P/E of 26.6 times against its historical average (5 year average) of 11.8 times
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