Edits & Columns News
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Why India needs better management
Nirvikar Singh | July 7, 2018 2:55 AMThe financing of firms and the skilling of workers are both activities that can be done more efficiently with better management, catalysing the relaxation of other constraints on the performance of the economy,
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A ‘poor’ understanding of monetary policy
FE Bureau | July 7, 2018 2:32 AMBefore trying to establish the suzerainty of its policies over the rural and poor India, RBI should first establish the hold of our currency, the rupee, on the poor
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Higher MSPs don’t address farmers woes
FE Bureau | July 7, 2018 2:22 AMIn a bid to address the farm sector distress, the government, on Wednesday, increased minimum support prices (MSP) by 1.5 times the A2+FL cost of production, which includes actual paid out input costs and imputed value of unpaid family labour.
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India taxes farmers, but MSPs are not the solution
The Financial Express | July 6, 2018 4:42 AMNot allowing free imports means farmers don’t get market prices, but hiking MSPs causes more distortions.
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Here is why govt must clarify on funding powers in the post-UGC era
The Financial Express | July 6, 2018 4:34 AMThe Union government’s move to expand the scope of the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) is undoubtedly a good one.
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Two CSE studies show most brick kilns and thermal power plants in the NCR do not meet green norms
The Financial Express | July 6, 2018 4:28 AMA wide array of efforts have been undertaken to clear Delhi’s clogged lungs.
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Cost-push inflation: The new MSPs’ inflationary pinch
Saugata Bhattacharya | July 6, 2018 4:22 AMThe Technical impact of 2018-19 kharif MSP hikes on CPI inflation is estimated at 110 bps. the actual rise will depend on demand-supply conditions.
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A solution for non-performing assets? The main criticism of the AMC proposal relates to the source of funding
FE Bureau | July 6, 2018 4:16 AMThe non-performing assets (NPA) of banks have been climbing year after year and had reached 11.6% of gross advances by the end of March 2018.
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For tackling NPAs, lean on IBC, not AMC
Sumant Batra | July 6, 2018 4:03 AMThere is no empirical evidence from across the globe that a public sector AMC is an effective or sustainable solution for tackling the problem of NPAs.
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The NPOS must improve quality of India’s official statistics
PP Sangal | July 6, 2018 3:58 AMAny discussion on official statistics in any fora generally hovers around reliability, availability, timeliness and comprehensiveness of the formulation of socio-economic policies by governments, and their implementation, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.
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Explained: How Ind AS 115 affects firms’ P&L
FE Bureau | July 6, 2018 3:46 AMThe new standard creates a single source of revenue requirements for all entities in all industries.
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Here is why costly pro-farmer move will hike inflation, hit exports
The Financial Express | July 5, 2018 3:45 AMExpect a 30-35bps hike in FY19 inflation and a hit in rice- and cotton-based exports as Indian prices rise above global ones.
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Explained: Why Arvind Kejriwal was unreasonable but LG can’t trump the Delhi CM
The Financial Express | July 5, 2018 10:01 AMThe Supreme Court verdict on the sharing of powers between the office of the Lieutenant-Governor (LG) and the elected government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) should put an end to fractious relationships between LGs and the Aam Aadmi Party.
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Proposed changes to Nagoya Protocol may protect countries’ rights to their biological wealth, but shortchange research
The Financial Express | July 5, 2018 3:32 AMThe proposed changes to the Nagoya Protocol—the 2010 framework builds on the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that guarantees a nation’s right to its biological wealth and biodiversity—present an unique dilemma. If accepted, these would mean that researchers, including corporate-backed ones, will have to seek a country’s permission to use “digital gene sequence information”, […]
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Long-term fix: Why the rupee will drift down the weaker path
Renu Kohli | July 5, 2018 3:21 AMThe Current account has structural weaknesses; dipping into reserves or raising fresh dollars may not help.
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Seeding agricultural growth: Optimal support goes beyond MSP
July 5, 2018 1:08 PMReforms on agri-marketing, contract farming, and land leasing apart from an aggressive export policy are what driving agri-growth requires.
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How CSK became a super sports brand
Sushila Ravindranath | July 5, 2018 3:06 AMBig IPL wins and the understated charm of Dhoni helped CSK score.
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GST: A bold reform, fix the small chinks
FE Bureau | July 5, 2018 2:59 AMFiling must get much more simpler, and divergence between the views of advance ruling authorities must be tackled.
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Unlikely the new plan will work as well as the IBC
The Financial Express | July 4, 2018 3:55 AMIf banks or ARCs could resolve their bad loans, they would have done it by now, and not waited for RBI to force them to act
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Even free is a good price: Given PSU losses, sale value is not the most important parameter
The Financial Express | July 4, 2018 3:45 AMIn response to a question on why his government was not pursuing a more aggressive privatisation strategy, prime minister Narendra Modi replied that, while his government had cleared several strategic sales of loss-making PSUs—around 20 have been cleared—the reason why none had been sold so far was because “we do not want to make a sale where we will be accused of selling something for X amount when we could have got more”.
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Path-breaking! Kerala sets an example for other states with its innovative solution to tackle plastic waste in oceans
The Financial Express | July 4, 2018 3:37 AMKerala’s literally paving the road for the rest of India to tackle plastic waste in the oceans.
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What model does the Swachh Survekshan bat for?
Chandra Bhushan | July 4, 2018 3:31 AMThe Survekshan ranks cities that do their waste management in a highly decentralised fashion poorly, despite their sustainable waste-management systems.
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One year of GST: Fix refunds to protect exporters
Anita Rastogi | July 4, 2018 3:24 AMThe government has been addressing problems with interim measures. It needs to make solutions part of the GST legislation.
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Why education policy needs a revisit
Charan Singh | July 4, 2018 7:37 AMIt must create tolerant, socially-responsible, and environmentally conscious citizens.
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Suit-boot-ki-sarkar tag trips PM Narendra Modi’s privatisation
The Financial Express | July 3, 2018 4:36 AMLIC buying IDBI Bank may be bad policy, but it saves Modi from Rahul Gandhi’s barbs—that’s privatisation’s new reality
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Modi government loses fight on cash
The Financial Express | July 3, 2018 4:31 AMCash-to-GDP back at pre-DeMo levels, need to push DigitalPay.
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Sushma Swaraj draws abuse on Twitter, 43% respondents in a poll support it
The Financial Express | July 3, 2018 4:25 AMThe vitriol that swamped external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s Twitter account following a controversy involving the grant of passports to an inter-faith couple is a dipstick of how dangerous a problem trolling has become.
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