Columns

Premature withdrawal of 5-year bank FDs should be allowed, with certain conditions, to help tide over the current crisis

It’s the same story, in Turkey and India

If we can treat 2019-20 as a year when the “teething problems” associated with GST must have been largely overcome, there is no question that this performance is poor

We have been ratcheting up economic sanctions and screening Chinese investments. Also, closer ties with Taiwan will help

While the office of the Governor has hardly distinguished itself, the Congress is paying the price for bypassing its young leaders

Pay cuts and job losses have been the norm since the outbreak of the pandemic. To ride through the rough patch, everyone’s focussed on maintaining a ...

 Age is not just a number and who better than the bureaucracy to talk about it. Finding themselves being cornered by age limit, the Indian Statistical ...

Tharoor bats for this form of govt. It’s not a convincing argument

Designers are rolling out personalised ones too

India’s entrepreneurs should be freed from painful taxation rules

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed what employment and rewards mean

The fiscal stimulus has not reached small players. Meanwhile, banks must be shielded from NPAs so that they can lend freely

Ha, that was fast!Oh, why?You seem very optimistic that there is going to be a post-Covid world!There is going to be one and many. We’re not doomed ...

Can Jio Platforms dominate every field from music to education and online pharmaceuticals?

Modi’s embrace of Trump could complicate the plot

Availability of digital data and the entry of more lending entities are positives. But risk-assessment infrastructure must be improved

The arms of the taxman are long, but he is constantly trying to extend his reach so that ill-gotten wealth is not stowed away in hidden nooks and ...

GSTN’s statistical report has interesting info

It encourages irresponsible behaviour, which will set us back

Annual General Meetings of companies in India are typically mind-numbingly tedious affairs where, for the most part, the shareholders who do turn up ...

Unverified returns going unnoticed for as far back as five years raises red flags

What syndrome is this?The peculiar affliction among millionaires around the world that has seen them practically begging their governments to tax them ...