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Caught in the crossfires of trade wars
FE Bureau | September 12, 2018 4:42 AMThe key to the very existence of the Indian recycling industry is in the availability of cost-effective scraps from imports or domestic sources, at a time when the metal prices are reeling under the tariff impact of trade wars
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The emancipation of a nation and of its highest court
Avirup Bose | September 12, 2018 4:35 AMThe Supreme Court does more than decriminalise consensual homosexual sex and attempts to look beyond the mere sexual self of India’s LGBTQ people. Although the Court assiduously avoids the subject of gay marriage, in the choice of some of its words, it could have consciously laid the groundwork for gay marriage equality in India
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The spotlight is back on audit firms
FE Bureau | September 12, 2018 4:28 AMChecking the regulatory oversight of multinational accounting firms
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The curious state of Indo-US relations
FE Bureau | September 12, 2018 4:22 AMBoth India and the US need to make each other understand about their self-interests as well as their limitations
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Still not too late to look at NRI bonds to save rupee
The Financial Express | September 11, 2018 3:55 AMApart from this, good idea to ease FDI rules like in retail since that will bring in large flows, work on lowering imports
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Fix NCLT/NCLAT delays
The Financial Express | September 11, 2018 3:52 AMA year on, process for selling Essar Steel is still incomplete
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Despite a ban on manual scavenging, related deaths keep piling, revealing a disregard for human health and dignity
The Financial Express | September 11, 2018 3:45 AMDelhi banned manual scavenging—the UN defines the activity as manually cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling human excreta from dry latrines and sewers—on August 21, 2017.
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Changing trade order: Donald Trump’s WTO moves worse than its war
Anwarul Hoda | September 11, 2018 3:41 AMBy stalling the dispute resolution mechanism at the WTO, the US is Pushing the multilateral trade regulator towards A slow Death
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IBC and Companies Act: Accountability of owners – Will the bells toll now?
FE Bureau | September 11, 2018 3:30 AMRegulations such as IBC and Companies Act have unleashed a sense of discomfort among the Boards and promoters in corporate India who are treading on the thin line of law, but conviction rates are yet to see a major rise
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Data protection: The top priority for Indian CEOs
FE Bureau | September 11, 2018 3:21 AMA majority CEOs see digital disruption as a pathway to business success
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India: A glass half full or half empty?
Nirvikar Singh | September 11, 2018 3:13 AMIt may be that double-digit growth can only be achieved with greater inclusiveness
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FY 19 growth to be slower than expected; here’s why
Shobhana Subramanian | September 10, 2018 5:00 AMMeaningful capex is unlikely before 2020-21, with banks reluctant to lend and India Inc overleveraged.
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Gene editing: Here’s the new method which is safer than CRISPR
The Financial Express | September 10, 2018 4:53 AMCalifornia-based scientists have developed a gene-editing method that could prove much safer than a CRISPR
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The truth behind genetically modified food imports in India
Vivian Fernandes | September 10, 2018 4:46 AMCSE is wrong—import of GM food is allowed, and it isn’t unregulated. The GEAC IS Empowered to regulate Such Imports.
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Falling Rupee: How to ease importers’ trauma
Jamal Mecklai | September 10, 2018 5:17 AMLearning from the market is very expensive; but not learning from the market can be disastrous
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Charges against the plant are half-truths and lies: P Ramnath, CEO, Sterlite Copper
FE Bureau | September 10, 2018 4:23 AMThe Sterlite copper smelter in Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) in coastal Tamil Nadu has been considered a major polluter ever since its inception in 1997
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Why NFRA shouldn’t become another body formulating accounting standard
September 10, 2018 6:44 PMThe Statement of Objects of the Companies Bill, 2011, provided that a National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards (NACAS) is proposed to be renamed as NFRA with “a mandate to ensure monitoring and compliance of accounting and auditing standards and to oversee quality of service of professionals associated with compliance.”
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Petrol, Diesel Prices: Let invincible hand do its job
Anuj Agarwal | September 10, 2018 4:08 AMSustainable reduction in fuel prices will come when currency & global oil prices move in our favour. This doesn’t seem too distant
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Black to white magic
P Chidambaram | September 9, 2018 3:25 AMWith the release of the RBI’s Annual Report for 2017-18, the ghost of demonetisation has come back to haunt the government of Mr Narendra Modi.
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Inside Track: From Modi-Mohanlal meet to Ratnakar Pandey’s demise; all you need to know
Coomi Kapoor | September 9, 2018 3:17 AMThe BJP high command and the PMO have been pressing the chief ministers of BJP-ruled states to furnish statistics of the beneficiaries of different central and state government schemes at the state, district, block and village level.
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The Golf bug: A visit to Oxford Golf and Country Club
Meraj Shah | September 9, 2018 3:01 AMTwo Mad Hatters drive into golf’s rabbit hole in the Western Ghats in a red car.
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Skills-jobs mismatch in manufacturing costs India dear
The Financial Express | September 8, 2018 3:40 AMIn 2011-12, the education levels of 68% of textile workers was either higher or lower than what their work required.
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For FY19 BoP outlook, capital flows are a bigger worry than current account deficit
The Financial Express | September 8, 2018 3:35 AMAnaemic portfolio flows, combined with an outflow of buyers’ credit, hurt India’s balance of payments position in Q1FY19.
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Nasa’s looking at new ways to monetise its activities, including auctioning rocket-naming rights
The Financial Express | September 8, 2018 3:26 AMNasa is experimenting with privatisation in interesting new ways.
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Section 377, and its mirror-law in England reduced the punishment for gay sex to life imprisonment, from death penalty
Bibek Debroy | September 8, 2018 3:22 AMWhen we look at a piece of legislation, we often See it as it is interpreted today, not as it was when enacted. We also assume that the stated objective is the real one.
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Why it is fairly reasonable to use reserve assets to some extent for ensuring a soft landing for the rupee
September 8, 2018 3:14 AMIf external liabilities are reduced in the process, it is fairly reasonable to use reserve assets to some extent for ensuring a soft landing for the rupee.
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Enactment of Personal Data Protection Bill is likely to be the turning point in cyber-risk exposure of banks
September 8, 2018 3:04 AMThe draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, has proposed that contravention of fiduciary responsibilities of personal-data protection would entail penalties of up to Rs 15 crore or 4% of turnover, whichever is higher. Enactment of the Bill is likely to be the turning point in the cyber-risk exposure of banks
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