Your medical insurance plan will now cover mental illness, similar to those offered for treatment of physical illness
With deposit rates broadly stable, further rise in MCLR at a swift pace is less likely
Amway plans to invest Rs 1,000 cr in India over a period of 2-3 years, aims to bolster its position and product line
Frshly: This automated fresh food retailer makes dishes from top restaurants available on demand
- SteelonCall: This startup in steel sustains its business by charging Rs 200 per tonne levied on each transaction
- How contrarian measures are better suited to kick-start industrial revival and help in job creation
- If trade wars continue, it will be tough for India to keep export competitiveness high
- World is consuming resources at an alarming rate, far quicker than our planet can replenish
Edits & Columns News
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Data protection bill: Whom does it really protect?
FE Bureau | August 16, 2018 12:12 AMThe Bill, in its current form, could impact companies on matters related to compliance, fraud risk management and potential fraud investigations.
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Education needs to promote the maxim: Thesis+Antithesis = Synthesis
FE Bureau | August 16, 2018 12:12 AMThis era poses an enormous challenge for education. It is not that lies will now be accepted as truth, and truth is defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world.
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TPAs are not the right Ayushman Bharat solution – Here is why
The Financial Express | August 15, 2018 1:45 AMSince TPAs have no skin in the game, unlike insurance firms, they are unlikely to do a good job of fraud mitigation.
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RBI didn’t power this crisis – Faulty government power policy responsible for soaring NPAs
The Financial Express | August 15, 2018 1:41 AMThe RBI has hit the nail on the head when it says the government’s favouring of state-owned utilities is what has caused the severe stress in the power sector.
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Google Eyes: In the light of Google’s relentless tracking, what meaning does ‘consent’ have for the data privacy ecosystem?
The Financial Express | August 15, 2018 1:38 AMGoogle services continuing to track users’ location on Android and iPhone devices, even after they have been told expressly not to, is a serious breach of individuals’ privacy.
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Why the credibility of FSSAI is key to promoting biotech in India
Chandra Bhushan | August 15, 2018 1:35 AMThe food standard regulator has so far not assessed the safety of even one GM food and neither does it have a set procedure to assess safety.
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Explained: Data centres not required in India
Jaithirth Rao | August 15, 2018 1:30 AMFrom a Ricardian comparative advantage perspective, it makes sense for us to outsource these data centres to countries that can worry about electricity and warming the globe.
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Draft e-commerce Bill gets it wrong
Madan Sabnavis | August 15, 2018 1:24 AMThe e-commerce model serves the same function as the current efforts to bring farmers closer to the consumers by linking them digitally. Also, e-tail discounts bring down prices for consumers.
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Draft Data Protection Bill: ‘Local copy’ queers the pitch
FE Bureau | August 15, 2018 1:20 AMThe data localisation requirement in the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, proposed in the Justice BN Srikrishna Committee Report, has raised significant controversy.
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Institutes must focus on teachers
FE Bureau | August 15, 2018 1:15 AMThe industry experts that institutions collaborate with should be continuous learners themselves.
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Damage-control on lynching, but not enough on economy
The Financial Express | August 14, 2018 2:26 AMPM does well to warn lynchers and cow vigilantes, govt has done well on IBC, NCLT and GST, but not enough for industry.
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Discounting e-tail’s benefits: No issue of unfair discount once FDI in multi-brand retail allowed
The Financial Express | August 14, 2018 2:23 AMThe government’s draft e-commerce policy, deals with this issue of unfair discounting or predatory pricing as well and tries to address this by saying that related-party sellers like WS Retail, or a Cloudtail, should not be allowed to buy in bulk.
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Contrarian Forever: Sir VS Naipaul was a difficult man to peg down
The Financial Express | August 14, 2018 2:18 AMVS Naipaul’s words may have inspired as much love as scorn. But, as Paul Theroux says, he wrote the cold, abject truth.
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Finance Commission Transfers: The Subramanian formula is flawed
Pinaki Chakraborty | August 14, 2018 2:15 AMDividing the transfer system into four ‘pots’— “return”, “redistribution”, “risk sharing” and “reward”—violates the objective of offsetting revenue disabilities.
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Staring at another crisis: There is increasing nervousness about inflation that Trump’s trade wars could exacerbate
Jamal Mecklai | August 14, 2018 2:09 AMIt is the nature of the beast that we use events—like the day you were born—to define nodal points, even though the actual starting point was likely much earlier, when your mother and father met, for instance.
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Many hills to climb before Digital India
TV Ramachandran | August 14, 2018 2:03 AMThe draft National Digital Communications Policy 2018 appears good, but it is a mere beginning.
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The right notes and a stylus: Samsung hopes the S Pen will help shore up sales
Nandagopal Rajan | August 14, 2018 1:58 AMIt’s not a 4000mAh battery or the stunning screen; it’s the S Pen which is the top selling point of the Note9.
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Public health TRIPS at WTO
Anil K Kanungo | August 14, 2018 1:54 AMTRIPS must be monitored closely, both in countries with strong generic industries and those relying on imports of generic substitutes.
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BJP opposed UPA corruption in telecom and coal, but its own AG blames Supreme Court for hurting these sectors
Sunil Jain | August 13, 2018 4:15 AMThe BJP may have pilloried Kapil Sibal for his there-was-no-loss theory of telecom following the CAG report that put the A Raja scam between Rs 57,000 crore and Rs 176,000 crore, but last week’s developments would have gladdened his heart.
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Punjab-Haryana High Court asking eloping couples to make fixed deposits reinforces regressive social attitudes
The Financial Express | August 13, 2018 4:07 AMWhat furious parents couldn’t do, the Punjab and Haryana High Court may end up doing.
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MSP-hike gains won’t be even: More productive states will realise larger gains than those with lower productivity
FE Bureau | August 13, 2018 4:01 AMMore productive states will realise larger gains than those with lower productivity. Thus, STates’ agri-research must focus on reduction of costs .
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Will draft data law work well? The Bill creates parallel adjudicatory system, distinct from existing judicial system
FE Bureau | August 13, 2018 3:48 AMIt’s been a few weeks since the Justice BN Srikrishna committee report released its draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018.
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Why digital cartelisation will be a new challenge for the anti-trust regime
Vaibhav Choukse | August 13, 2018 3:36 AMThe existing competition law instruments are generally sufficient to counter this, but they could be modernised—instead of being overhauled—and applied more efficiently.
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SEBI must clarify FPI KYC norms: Revised norms for domestic fund managers portend a great disadvantage to India
FE Bureau | August 13, 2018 3:27 AMOver the past few year, the objective of successive governments—rightly so—has been to strengthen and deepen the structures and policies of the Indian capital markets.
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Government must increase spending, the budgetary allocation for public health doesn’t meet needs
FE Bureau | August 13, 2018 3:20 AMThe National Health Profile (NHP) 2018 released recently by the ministry of health and family welfare is both congratulatory and alarming.
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Across the aisle: First anarchy, now autarky
P Chidambaram | August 12, 2018 4:11 AMThere is a vast difference between being market-friendly and business-friendly.
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Inside Track: From Tamil Nadu Government not granting permission to bury M Karunanidhi at Marina beach to Sushma Swaraj creating stir in BJP Parliamentary Party meeting
Coomi Kapoor | August 12, 2018 4:04 AMTamil Nadu chief minister E Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam disagreed on the issue of granting permission to bury DMK leader M Karunanidhi at Marina beach.
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