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The latest amendment, which makes the insolvency professional more accountable on avoidance transactions, was much-needed, but addresses the issue only…

This will need accounting for the ‘economics’ of the crime. The proposed law does this with penalties and asset-seizure clauses

Domestic capital looking to invest in the start-up sector still faces many hurdles, including from tax policy

India’s investment-lucrativeness is greatly dulled by it, telecom market and infrastructure will suffer if the firm exits

India needs far larger investment in sports than it sees currently

Given there’s been no direct stimulus—and likely none coming—high fuel taxes and their impact on inflation are unconscionable

The intermittent invocation of the Essential Commodities Act, especially for pulses in recent months, illustrates this

The state can’t afford to let its guard down, like it did during Eid

While monetary policy normalisation is inevitable, it is unlikely to begin before the December policy meeting.

While a depreciating rupee helps boost India’s export competitiveness, rising inflation threatens to undermine it

India’s public grain management system of procurement, stocking and distributing, is perhaps the largest food programme in the world. It…