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Quick Take: Why the stock markets cheered, while bond markets sulked post Budget

Quick Take: Why the stock markets cheered, while bond markets sulked post Budget

Though the Budget had every excuse to announce some populist handouts ahead of upcoming State polls, it seems to have refrained

Regrettable gag order on Andhra Pradesh media

Regrettable gag order on Andhra Pradesh media

Freedom of expression and access to information are increasingly coming under attack

Wework episode should serve as a wake-up call for analysts and investors

Wework episode should serve as a wake-up call for analysts and investors

Let consumer interest decide e-commerce policies

The government shouldn’t accede to protectionist demands of traders’ bodies

Risky A320neo aircraft of IndiGo, GoAir should be grounded immediately

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

PSU workers don’t deserve to be abandoned; they need ‘tough love’

If our public sector units and banks are tottering, it’s not entirely the fault of “unproductive” labour. Even if they are to be laid off, there

Revive BSNL at the earliest

It is important to have a strong telecom PSU to provide some healthy competition in this space and ensure that rural consumers are catered to

Know your onions

No mistaking China’s superpower status

Dip in GST collections tells a story

Thumbs up from RSS

RSS is satisfied enough with the BJP’s progress on ideological lines to back the government on economic policy and blame the downturn on global fact

Hidden from plain sight

Revise fisc numbers in the wake of slowdown

Centre must acknowledge the impact of the slowing growth and take corrective actions

Right move to revive BSNL, MTNL

Public sector presence will maintain a semblance of competition, now fast receding, in the telecom space. National security considerations demand a PS

Why have private petrol pumps not come up?

A liberalised fuel retail policy must be accompanied by genuine price decontrol

Delhi police protest: Mutiny in the Ranks

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

AIF rescue: Devil in the details

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

Tangled web

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

Is the worst over for the auto sector?

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

Telecom tariff hike will undermine Digital India plan

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

PSU disinvestment: Strategically right

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

IT sector needs to get more ‘agile’

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

Supreme Court rules correctly on Maharashtra crisis

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

Sell Air India in a prudent fashion, don’t shut it

Its closure will remove significant capacity from the market. The country's aviation sector and air passengers can ill afford that

Intriguing moves in Pakistan establishment

Some pretty obvious behind the scenes friction is playing itself out between the pro-India and anti-India camps within the Pak army

Lenders to Karvy are being unreasonable

The battle over collateral is unfortunate for retail investors

Bharat Bond ETF: For the savvy investor

The new bond ETF makes PSU borrowings more transparent and is attractive to informed investors. But it shouldn’t preclude simpler instruments.

India really needed a Chief of Defence Staff

Bipin Rawat and his newly created department will be responsible for integration of the three forces at an operational level

Govt, media and Arnab

When detention and assault of journalists is the norm, the touching concern of a Minister over a TV star’s heckling is a story in itself

Why the markets were miffed with the Budget

No durable solutions in YES Bank rescue

With the moratorium lifted without incident, the immediate crisis in YES Bank has passed. But we need durable prescriptions to cope with such failure

Dealing with invasion of locusts

Even as we battle Covid-19, we can’t afford to ignore this latest problem that was reported recently in Rajasthan

Dealing with invasion of locusts

Even as we battle Covid-19, we can’t afford to ignore this latest problem, reported recently in Rajasthan

Of human bondage

Karnataka’s decision to stop ‘shramik’ trains for migrants is an affront to human dignity as well as freedom of choice. Industry can instead bid

Don’t shoot the messenger

The arrest of a reporter of a leading TV channel for saying that trains would run from Bandra was an excessive step. It highlights a bigger problem: o

Deplorable attempt to gag the media

Making an absurd argument that migrants were fleeing the Capital because of ‘fake news’, the Centre actually tried to persuade the Supreme Court t

Time to rethink sale of Air India

Air India has more value than many in government would like us to believe. It certainly shouldn’t be privatised in a rushed fire-sale just to balanc

Making a circus of a global pandemic

RBI’s right in using non-conventional tools to combat Covid

Unless inflation falls sharply, RBI cannot wield the scissors on its policy repo rate