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Taming India’s core inflation: Rate hike was inevitable, but sticking to neutral stance risks MPC’s credibility
Renu Kohli | June 12, 2018 4:56 AM
Rate hike was inevitablE, but sticking to neutral stance risks MPC’s credibility. Amid oil prices, weakening ` AND global financial conditions, Little Reason for the stance.
Artificial Intelligence: A smarter way to build smart cities
Abhishek Chaudhary | June 12, 2018 4:53 AM
The challenges of developing brownfield cities are different from greenfield, but common to both is the understanding that technologies like AI and IoT will be the cornerstone of realising India’s aspirations of building ‘intelligent’ cities of tomorrow.
Developing new apps, and ideas: Indian developers come in for critical acclaim at the Apple WWDC
Nandagopal Rajan | June 12, 2018 4:50 AM
Apple’s accelerator in Bangalore is working towards helping Indian developers find success on the global stage. Now, let’s wait for the first big app unicorn out of India.
Banking on direct benefits transfer
June 12, 2018 4:47 AM
One of the most significant governance reforms undertaken by the government in recent years has been the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) initiative.
Reforms are overdue
Meghnad Desai | June 11, 2018 4:18 AM
A bonfire of state ownership will raise money to retire public debt, reduce corruption and enhance efficiency.
Under Modi, agriculture is just trudging along
Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini | June 11, 2018 4:16 AM
Rather tHan MSP, for better prices getting the markets right by overhauling the agri-marketing infrastructure and associated laws presents a better solution.
CarbonCOSTS: Carbon capture costs can be brought down by converting captured CO2 into low-carbon fuels
The Financial Express | June 11, 2018 4:08 AM
Siphoning excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been suggested as a supplementary measure to contain anthropogenic climate change by the scientific community—and as the only rational measure to control emissions, by those who oppose sustainability restrictions on GHG generating human activities.
Powering Punjab’s reform: Charging richer farmers for power is a step in right direction
The Financial Express | June 11, 2018 3:54 AM
The Punjab State Farmers’ and Farm Workers’ Commission proposal to start charging better-off farmers for electricity is a step in the right direction, but more than that, what is important is the thought process that has gone behind the recommendation.
Home-buyers can trip up the entire IBC process
The Financial Express | June 11, 2018 3:34 AM
As this paper has argued, giving home-buyers the status of financial creditors won’t really help their cause much; on the contrary, it could muddy the resolution process if stakeholders pull in different directions.
Digital pathway to financial inclusion
June 11, 2018 3:09 AM
Recent discussions on digital finance in our country have been hijacked by the demonetisation debate, and the polarised discourse surrounding it.
Slaying oil price Jabberwock: The need to create the Vorpal Blade
June 11, 2018 3:05 AM
If the government intends to control the periodic decimation of the economy by cyclical increases in oil prices, it needs to adopt short-term (introduce differential pricing), medium-term (create a statutory oil price management fund) and long-term (shift from diesel to LNG/CNG) measures.
GST 2.0: Why two-rate structure is needed
June 11, 2018 2:59 AM
As the Goods and Services Tax (GST) completes one year of existence, the time is opportune to refresh and introduce sweeping changes in the existing structure, procedures and processes to make it more flawless and simple.
Ringside view: Lionel Messi’s game; one of the most decorated footballers in history
Shamik Chakrabarty | June 10, 2018 3:40 AM
For one of the most decorated footballers in the history of the game, a World Cup win remains the only missing piece in the trophy cabinet.
Inside Track: Modi-Shah duo planning to roll back diktat that people over 75 have no place in politics
Coomi Kapoor | June 10, 2018 3:36 AM
The Modi-Shah duo is planning to roll back its diktat that people over 75 have no place in politics. The party high command wants to guard against dissidence from disgruntled seniors.
Across the aisle: Governments hide, people seek
P Chidambaram | June 10, 2018 3:34 AM
The government puffed up the Q4 growth rate and claimed that the worst effects of demonetisation and a flawed GST were over.
Chasing receding water tables: How Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole
Avinash Kishore | June 9, 2018 1:50 AM
Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole, by looking deeper for groundwater as levels fall because of over-reliance.
Higher-education reform: Junking the plan to scrap AICTE, UGC and bring in HEERA is a lost opportunity
The Financial Express | June 9, 2018 1:46 AM
If the Union government is indeed scrapping its plan to introduce a single higher education regulator, as has been reported by The Economic Times (ET), it would be an opportunity lost.
Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat were mostly in agreement
The Financial Express | June 9, 2018 1:44 AM
Top Congress leaders beat a hasty retreat and party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala spoke of how Mukherjee had “shown ‘mirror of truth’ to RSS, to follow India’s civilizational values”.
With PSLV-funding requirement, govt encouraging larger private sector role in space-tech
The Financial Express | June 9, 2018 1:40 AM
The recent achievements of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)—from the mammoth launch of 104 satellites by its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C37 in a single mission to the development and successful deployment of the South Asia Satellite for communications—have earned India a place in the elite club of nations with advanced space capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to add 1 trillion to India’s economy in 2035
The Financial Express | June 9, 2018 1:36 AM
A new NITI Aayog working paper outlines a comprehensive strategy for AI adoption in India. Given many countries, including China and France, have formalised strategies even as the US powers through with AI research, Indian policymakers will do well to pay heed to NITI’s recommendations.
Trump-Kim summit: China caught off-guard?
Anurag Viswanath | June 9, 2018 1:28 AM
As Singapore prepares to host the leaders, it is still unknown whether the US will foot the bill for the North Korean leader’s trip and if the North Korean delegation will travel using the (old) Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-62 or use a Chinese aircraft.
Special provisions of the Income Tax law: Are all incomes created equal?
Hariharan Gangadharan | June 8, 2018 4:40 AM
The ongoing work of the expert committee to come up with a tax law is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to correct systemic ills.
Sugar Crisis: Beyond the ‘sweet’ package, opportunity for reform
June 8, 2018 4:38 AM
The Centre could start by scrapping the sugarcane and sugar control orders (both of 1966 vintage), and free the industry with effect from a prospective date in 2020/21.
Faster data speeds and increasing smartphone penetration make mobiles the driver of M&E growth
The Financial Express | June 8, 2018 4:30 AM
According to PwC’s Global Entertainment and Media (E&M) Outlook 2018-22, the valuation of the Indian E&M industry will hit Rs 3.5 lakh crore in 2022.
Does merit matter in quota debate?
Sunil Jain | June 8, 2018 4:27 AM
The fact that the government needs to provide reservations to SC/ST/OBC in government jobs, more than anything else, should be proof that the quota policy is a complete failure.
A patient-centric Ayushman Bharat: There is no provision for counselling/early diagnosis in Ayushman Bharat
Ratna Devi | June 8, 2018 4:23 AM
We did well with MDGs and will do better with SDGs. Ayushman Bharat will adequately address SDG Goal 3 and ensure that healthcare reaches the most underserved and vulnerable populations”.
Creating an inclusive classroom: Persons with disabilities need easier access to higher education
June 8, 2018 4:19 AM
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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