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India slipping on global competitiveness index is worrisome
India slipping on the global competitiveness index is worrisome, structural reforms are now urgent
How govt can control sudden spike in prices of onion and tomato
Improving processing and direct buying from fpos could help check large price volatility of vegetable like tomato, onion, potato that export bans and stocking limit
Firms are turning to people analytics to achieve better efficiencies
Firms are increasingly turning to people analytics to achieve better efficiencies from employees
What Delhi needs to do to combat air pollution
The recent RFID system (introduced by the School of Planning and Architecture) for commercial vehicles entering Delhi is an example of congestion pricing which has worked.
Digital platforms need to be robust for compelling people to give up cash
Now that smarter, faster, more secure, cost-effective and transparent channels of digital payments are in place, and the pace of economic formalisation has picked up owing to GST, RBI can confidently
Congress leaders are speaking out of turn, where is discipline panel?
The average age of the committee, chaired by A K Antony is 82. The three-member panel consists of Antony,78, Motilal Vora, 90, and Sushil Kumar Shinde, 78.
Stats don’t lie: Ravi Ashwin probably experiments a little too much
Ashwin probably experiments a little too much, but he has had a career to be proud of
Corporates get responsible about plastic
Rushing into announcing a ban, to coincide with Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary or some such other landmark, is a bad idea.
Chem Nobel honours work that led to the Li-ion battery
With prices falling, lithium has found resonance with large-scale utilities and electric vehicles.
WHO report shows how big the problem of blindness that could have been prevented is
The WHO’s first-ever World Vision Report highlights that 2.2 billion people across the globe suffer from vision impairment—of these, nearly a billion cases could have been prevented, if they were
Swachh Bharat shows how to nudge the right way
Setting up a ‘behaviour insight team’ in the govt, to help different ministries incorporate psychological and cognitive dimensions in public policy, may be useful.
Explained: Why India slips 10 positions in Global Competitiveness Rankings
While India is finding it difficult to compete with a Vietnam in wooing manufacturing firms moving out of China, the latest slip in rankings in the Global Competitive Index will cause further heartbur
Modi-Xi Meet: How India-China ties are underscored by economic asymmetry
President Xi Jinping and Prime minister Narendra Modi have much in common—pragmatism, nationalism and marked shifts in foreign policy, but Sino-Indian relations are underscored by economic asymmetry
Smart move by Reliance Jio, others should have emulated it
It benefits if its customers can pressure Trai to scrap IUC; if that doesn’t happen, it benefits from higher revenues.
RBI right on Indiabulls-LVB; it needs to push mergers of weak banks quickly
It is really not much of a surprise that RBI has turned down the proposal to amalgamate Lakshmi Vilas Bank and Indiabulls Housing Finance.
A new survey highlights acute lack of awareness about mental health in the country
Although the government launched the National Mental Health Programme in 1982, little has been done to address the problem.
Reviving growth: What could spur income tax rate cuts
Income Tax rate cuts should come only if Diwali demand is weak, there is weak rate-cut transmission by banks and govt finds ways to fund the corp tax rate cut.
Instead of engineering a growth acceleration to go with a demographic dividend, policymakers have allowed growth to slow
The government has a perennial problem of failure to raise adequate tax revenues. Periodically, it resorts to “tax terrorism,” which only creates more uncertainty and damages growth.
RCEP churn: Protecting Indian dairy from itself
India has problems that go beyond RCEP, it needs to explore why the private sector is mute in FTA discussions and why cooperatives inevitably become political.
How bank denationalisation can be a solution to tackle slowdown woes
Banks despite having deposits, have limited capital. Given the Basel capital adequacy norms, they are constrained. That indicates to a problem of supply of credit. But, do we have enough demand for cr
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat should have been unambiguous on lynching
Bhagwat should have condemned lynching in a more forthright manner; did well to support privatisation/FDI.
Why India needs a forest wall against the march of desertification
With a plan to create a 1,400-km-long and 5-km-wide green belt, from Gujarat to the Delhi-Haryana border, India is committing to concrete steps to combat desertification and land degradation.
Explained: How Delhi shows the way on celebrating festivals
Delhi shows the way on celebrating festivals, idol immersion and all, and fighting pollution at the same time.
Junk Boilers Act and relook Seventh Schedule
With perceptions about inspections by private companies having changed, the Indian Boilers Act, 1923, and the entire Seventh Schedule, needs a relook.
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