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But the Centre will have to be more generous with fund transfers; fiscal deficit targets may have to be tossed aside for now

SEBI should not try and fix something that is not broken

With the European nations entering into a second phase of lockdown, crude prices crashed over 10%, in the last week of October. Much of the losses ...

To keep the US ahead of China technologically and economically, it is unlikely Biden will be any softer than Trump

PMI has grabbed the headlines for all the good reasons even in these trying Covid times. Of course, the PMI that is being spoken about is not ...

The sugar lobby’s promotion must be taken with a pinch of salt

The US has much to learn about the conduct of elections from India

There are lessons his government can imbibe from how FDR helped the US emerge from the Great Depression in the 1930s

Unusual times demand unusual solutions. The borrowing mechanism to meet the GST compensation shortfall appears to be one. After taking a tough stance ...

The GST laws are a maze of limits and dates

Household wealth in India has not been hurt much by the pandemic, leaving people with enough surplus to spend

GST collection in the month of October 2020, which has gone past the ~1 lakh crore mark, has raised hopes of a rebound in economic activity. But weak ...

The complicated inter-play of demand, farmers’ crop choice and prices can leave ever more numbers hungry

In fact, healthcare workers must be paid well in these Covid times

Our netas still harp about ‘jungle raj’ and ‘love jihad’ rather than rebuild the economy and lives wrecked by Covid

Ever since the Finance Ministry raised the foreign portfolio investment (FPI) limit for Indian companies to the applicable foreign direct investment ...

China’s quick economic recovery from the pandemic vis-a-vis other countries indicates both reduced regional integration and setbacks in some of its Asian neighbours

The Quad, especially India, must leverage Myanmar to counter China, which uses our neighbour to push separatism in North-East

The country has emerged as a South Asian economic powerhouse

The pandemic has provided India a good opportunity to strike a balance between financial discipline and support

The ‘Natural Gas Marketing Reforms’ will bear fruit when domestic production takes off and the market matures

India, South Africa’s proposal on TRIPs waiver is most welcome

Unstoppable force seems to have met an immovable object at a Singapore tribunal last weekend.  You bet. It’s rather rare that Reliance Industries’ ...

Rather than learn from East Asia’s experience on how to tackle Covid, Western nations chose to go their own way