Quick Take

A floor test tomorrow will hopefully bring an end to a prolonged political drama. But questions over the role of the Governor and Constitutional proprieties remain

Declining on-site revenues are a cause for concern. IT companies would need to switch to new-age collaboration technologies, hire locally overseas or acquire firms there

Supply side moves have already been announced. The Centre should use divestment proceeds to create public infrastructure

As a face-saver, the Centre has mooted the Citizenship Amendment Bill, whose bias against Muslims is likely to run into legal issues

The Centre is right to push ahead with the strategic sales of profit-making PSUs, but must sequester the proceeds

Festival sales suggest a feeble turnaround, but these are still early days

It will widen the gap between the digital haves and have-nots. The number of mobile users has already fallen in rural India

Ineffectual MSPs and ad-hoc market interventions have hamstrung the cotton economy

India’s over-dependence on private players for vaccines is promoting irrational use and restricting access that leads to unacceptable fatalities

Political parties will now be hard put to keep themselves out of the ambit of this law

Maharashtra is the latest in the line of innumerable instances of governors displaying political partisanship, it is time that their discretionary powers are restrained by the courts

With India-Pakistan ties, nothing can ever be said. But any diversion from the air of mistrust is to be welcomed

Ratings agencies Moody’s has revised its sovereign outlook downwards. Whatever its metrics, the fact is that the Indian economy is in a bad place

While demand has been hurt by elevated prices and a slowing economy, it also indicates consumer interest may be shifting to other saving instruments

Finding non-government investors will be the key sticking point for it to work

The Centre’s plan to have a regulator for e-commerce calls for caution

The Centre has to seriously address the underlying issues that provoked the policemen in Delhi to agitate against their superiors this week

CJI Ranjan Gogoi has hit out critics of the NRC but debate is a key part of democracy

The mandate is for a BJP-Shiv Sena government. They should iron out their differences and attend to urgent governance matters

In crop diversification away from paddy lies the solution. Punjab and Haryana have only just begun

While the Republican Party is fully behind him, Democrats don’t have the numbers in the Senate. Meanwhile, Trump can gleefully play the ‘victim’ card

Sensex, Nifty 50 gains do not reflect the indifferent performance of corporates. Optimism over recent policy moves too does not explain the high valuations

DGCA’s direction to IndiGo, GoAir to replace A320neo engines within 15 days, a delayed and inadequate step

It could, however, lead to a rearrangement of pieces on the complex chessboard that is West Asia