Every Finance Commission tries to “reward” good performance by a state on tax effort & fiscal discipline. But it also…

If we get too fixated on the alternative-to-GDP idea, we lose sight of this process, the operational and much more…

We don’t quite know what an alternative summary measure for GDP might be. Let CSO figure it out

A contract between a customer and a hotel/restaurant is contingent on quality of information available and there is asymmetry there

The Ayyangar Committee’s recommendations led to repeal of CTA in August 1952. In 2008, National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and…

As a mathematical factoid, 2017 is a prime number. It, therefore, has two divisors, 1 and 2017 and the sum…

Had it not been for export incentives or preferential trade agreements, documentation would have been simple

This is the season for quoting, and misquoting, Keynes. “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you…

The latest edition of Court News is for the period January-March 2016. For Supreme Court, this gives us a sanctioned…

The SC accepts 20% of the appellate petitions it gets, while with precedence established, this should have fallen

We must delink classroom teaching from student learning, a distinction advanced countries have now accepted

Legislation for author versus publisher relationships may have improved, but there is still the perception that authors get little royalty…

It is perfectly possible for an establishment to remain open all seven days, as long as each worker gets a…

A scheme to modernise abattoirs was launched in 2009, with financial assistance from the Centre. But this was demand-driven. Local…

“All urban slaughter-houses as well as the butchers and flayers working there should be licensed, and entry to slaughter-houses strictly…

If consumers know exactly how much they are consuming and how much it costs, there is more judicious use