Atmanirbhar Bharat & the informal sector Reconciling the hand-to-mouth existence of units in the informal sector with their stipulated globally competitive role in the Atmanirbhar Bharat… By GuestMay 6, 2021 05:30 IST
RBI’s latest moves should help buffer small businesses against impact of second Covid wave, but much rests on banks Bankers must be relieved the Governor hasn’t asked them to offer borrowers a moratorium on the repayment of interest and… By Shobhana SubramanianMay 6, 2021 05:15 IST
Sebi’s formula to monitor fund-houses needs a tweak Linking fund-managers’ pay to schemes’ performance is good, but the current formula may be too complicated to implement By The Financial ExpressMay 5, 2021 06:15 IST
Forget herd immunity targets for Covid-19 vaccines: Variants have queered the pitch, target universal vaccination To vaccinate large numbers—indeed, for universal vaccination cover—the Centre and the states must make the vaccine accessible, even free, for… By The Financial ExpressMay 5, 2021 06:00 IST
Early numbers for India Inc’s March earnings season indicate fairly good performance, but second surge casts a pall Revenues have grown smartly on the back of better volumes and strong realisations—two-wheeler makers, for instance, have raised prices and… By The Financial ExpressMay 5, 2021 05:45 IST
For solar atmanirbharta, rethink duties A CEEW-CEF analysis shows India can achieve greater self-reliance in solar manufacturing through time-bound application of BCD at much lower… By GuestMay 5, 2021 05:30 IST
Poll Position: Making sense of elections and Covid-19 numbers Kerala’s share in the April-over-March increase in the country’s Covid-19 cases stayed virtually flat, TN’s rose by 0.9 ppts, WB’s… By Madan SabnavisMay 5, 2021 05:15 IST
Glaciers are melting faster than ever before, and with that, comes the double whammy of floods & water shortage The Leeds study had found that the world has lost a whopping 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and… By The Financial ExpressMay 4, 2021 05:45 IST
Protect power producers: States must honour PPAs, push discom-reforms Among the objectives laid out in the new draft National Electricity Policy is one to revitalise distribution companies. By The Financial ExpressMay 4, 2021 05:30 IST
Time for a lockdown: Even India Inc leaders have called for one, govt can learn from mistakes of the first lockdown Since April 8, the positivity rate (7-day rolling average) has more than doubled, the number of daily deaths (discounting the… By The Financial ExpressMay 4, 2021 05:15 IST
Let us pray: RBI needs to pull out all the stops to prevent another sharp drop in the rupee The rupee, on the surface, appears to be playing its own game. Since the start of 2020, it has taken… By Jamal MecklaiMay 4, 2021 05:00 IST
Second Covid-19 surge: Dealing with the uncertainties Vaccine is a national public good, and it must be financed through taxation and made available to all uniformly without… By M Govinda RaoMay 4, 2021 04:45 IST
For a predominantly clean system, India must move forward incrementally and make natural gas the “next stop” in its energy journey Message in the book is that rather than focus only on the endgame of decarbonisation, India must first “green” its… By Vikram S MehtaMay 3, 2021 05:30 IST
Centre must address the Covid-19 vaccine shortage It needs to contract supplies from the next lot in the pipeline, top up the Rs 35,000-crore allotment if needed By The Financial ExpressMay 3, 2021 05:15 IST
Sedition law must go: Supreme Court reviewing its constitutionality; limiting scope hasn’t worked While there is a need to be vigilant and act against those endangering the nation’s security and stability, a blunt… By The Financial ExpressMay 3, 2021 05:00 IST
Beating Malaria: A new vaccine candidate meets the effectiveness target set by WHO for combating the disease A vaccine with 77% effectiveness over one year could help deliver the world, especially developing nations, from a dreaded child-killer:… By The Financial ExpressMay 3, 2021 04:45 IST
The ‘flailing state’ revisited: States and city govts handled Covid pandemic better than Centre While the flailing state is usually defined as a sound and functional head and dysfuctional limbs, this time, it played… By Nirvikar SinghMay 3, 2021 04:30 IST
We need the truth. What we are getting are lies, writes Tavleen Singh If Narendra Modi wants to redeem more than his image, he must sack the men who have brought us here. By Tavleen SinghMay 2, 2021 06:30 IST
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