It’s best to steer clear of Bitcoins lest the bubble bursts It is impossible to make sense of the...
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Bad news for Modi? Bleak prospects for Indian economy for next few quarters The much-awaited second quarter gross domestic...
Tobacco consumption: Why bidi, not cigarette, is bigger challenge for India It seems like a good time for India...
‘Padmavati’ protests much ado about nothing? It’s that time of the year again when our sentiments are hurt, and...
“Delhi is a wakeup call for the world on air pollution. It clearly tells us that unless decisive actions are...
Is Doing Business Really Easy? Modi’s efforts in building India’s global appeal to investors seems to have finally yielded...
World markets ripe for the taking, but where is India’s strategy? In an expected and welcome turn of events,...
Economic growth doesn’t guarantee social progress Since the recent growth figures disclosing the deceleration in the Gross Domestic Product...
India’s states should track and act on social parameters Political conversations across the country in the last few weeks...
Government should wake up to scourge of illegal LEDs The Indian LED lighting industry is going through a boom...
The real reason why Modi is struggling to find a fix for India’s job crises The problem of jobs...
India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the deep-rooted problem Since the latest growth numbers have...
India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain In a respite to the Modi government, which has been...
Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things It is almost a certainty that...
Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off? The BRICS Summit was largely an uneventful affair this year. Apart...
It is becoming really hard to be optimistic about the Indian economy. As TN Ninan pointed out last week,...
Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two people to land on the moon, was quoted saying “If we can...
It is no secret that India has had an appalling record in keeping her children healthy. It is no...
It has been a decade since the biggest financial crisis in living memory swept the globe. In a run...
Self-proclaimed godmen and a coterie of sycophants to back them and validate their claims have always been ubiquitous in India. This...
Infosys is yet again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The poster child of the Indian IT industry just...
The Indian rupee has been on a rising spree this year. Beginning from historical lows back in December-January, when...
Dr. Vishal Sikka’s exit from Infosys seems to have been accentuated by the streak of comments made by co-founder...
On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, The Prime Minister urged the citizens to create a new...
The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year...
The data released by the Bloomberg Billionaire Index revealed some shocking statistics about the rise of inequality in India....
The Indian stock markets seems to be on a steroid-infused dream run. Both the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty-50 and...
Indian household savings patterns have been witnessing some massive structural shifts off late. Households in India have historically been...
Last week Antarctica shed a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf that had been tethered precariously at...
Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House and the subsequent allegations of Russia rigging the outcome,...
The annual US Congress-mandated report on human trafficking last week continued to place India in the tier-2 category, which includes countries...
The role of interest rate in India’s growth is grossly underplayed. The movement of interest rates have been strongly...
Twice in two weeks the US has taken steps that will have dire repercussions on a global scale. First,...
It has been an eventful three years for the Modi government. Back in 2014, BJP had inherited a system...
India has become the fastest-growing economy in the world. The next logical steps are to make this trend sustainable...
The Indian IT industry is at a crossroads. The sector first suffered the long-expected shock of the Trump administration’s...
India’s NPA problem has a flip side to it: the issue of rising corporate debts. IMF, in its latest...
Taxing agricultural income has always been a politically sensitive topic. This was evident last week after NITI Aayog member...
South Asia is becoming one of the most interesting regions in the world economy, displaying unprecedented growth, averaging close to six...
The Modi government has been pulling all stops to improve the ease of doing business rankings since it came into power...
The onset of summer and rising mercury levels will soon lead to a huge demand for ice-creams and frozen...
An eventful financial year nears its end on March 31. It was a year of tumultuous ups and downs...
The conversation around BJPs electoral win in UP has completely overshadowed the political scenario in the state of Punjab. Political commentators...
The just-concluded assembly elections and the unparalleled performance of the BJP have been the highlight of the weekend. The elections, happening...
The Indian economy has been witnessing a flux of good news lately. The GDP growth for the October-December quarter stood at seven per...
It is only so often that the world finds itself at the cusp of a revolution and an industrial...
GDP is easily the most controversial measure in the field of economics. It is a measure of economic production...
If the buzz around Hyperloop materialises, a commute between Chennai and Bengaluru can be a matter of 30 minutes. The advent of Artificial...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley put the spotlight on the issue of tax evasion in his February 1 budget speech...
The Union Budget for 2017-18 was easily the most anticipated one in recent times. The public was seeking the...
As we get to celebrate 67 years as a republic on January 26 and 70 years as an independent...
A special “Nobel Series” session was a notable addition at the latest Vibrant Gujarat Summit (January 9-12). Nine laureates were invited to...
The most recent Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) reflects a contraction in the manufacturing activity in India in December. Most...
There has been much debate on how the world will be in 2017. Several trends are visible and some...
The year coming to a close saw the unraveling of several key events at both the international and domestic...
India is a country of epic proportions and almost the size of a continent. The whole of Europe has lesser number of inhabitants than India but...
Jayalalithaa was to Tamil Nadu what Narendra Modi was to Gujarat. Their respective states symbolise their legacy and present unique models of development that...
The decision at the just-concluded 171st ministerial meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to reduce...
With the government decision to withdraw Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes as legal tender, an ongoing debate on...
The Prime Minister’s move on demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes is now slowly playing out. Apart from...
The past week has been momentous with two important events: the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President and...
That the environment in cities in India and the broader South Asian region in general is in shambles is not a...
International migration refers to the movement of people across borders caused by various economic, social and environmental factors as...
The Tata group is no stranger to Indians. It has had a long and illustrious history in the sub-continent...
Goals 1 and 2 of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision eradicating poverty and ending hunger in an...
The Indian economy and that of the broader South Asian Region (SAR) is a source of considerable interest in...
The Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World Report raises some important points for Indian policymakers. The Fraser...
As the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) begins its platinum jubilee celebrations, it is time for India to take...
India has convinced a lot of people and the world is making big bets on its stature as a manufacturing...
Access to healthcare is important in developing countries like India. This is because apart from treatment of ailments and...
A recent book by Time business columnist Rana Foroohar offers interesting insights about economies in general in the post-crisis...
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in developing countries as this involves making available affordable and quality medicines...
It has been just over 69 years since the stroke of the midnight hour when India awoke to life and its...
The fable of the hare being defeated by the tortoise sounds familiar and is near universal. It is also...
The Indian economy is heading for interesting times. With the government trying to push key legislation like GST — possibly on...
Carrying out innovations is the only function which is fundamental in history: J.A. Schumpeter Innovation is a fascinating topic...
What makes certain economies relatively prosperous and others relatively poor has been a question of debate among economic scholars...
What makes certain economies relatively prosperous and others relatively poor has been a question of debate among economic scholars...
Social development and environmental concerns are often not accorded the attention they deserve in public policy discourse. The reason...
Logistics forms the backbone of domestic and international trade in any economy and is a critical factor for competitiveness....
The Indian economy is at an interesting inflection point. With RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan announcing his plans to return to academia...
The union cabinet last week approved the much-awaited civil aviation policy. The policy, which has been instituted in an...
The economic cost of compliance with laws in developing countries can be humongous. A competitive economy reduces the regulatory...
This is the 100th article of the series and calls for a special issue to be discussed that has...
The Narendra Modi government has been in office for almost two years. There have been some strong areas of performance and...
Manufacturing in India has not been particularly strong. This is because of a host of reasons emanating from the India’s socialist...
India’s intellectual property (IP) regime has witnessed steady progress ever since the country became a signatory to the TRIPS...
Agriculture is a critical sector of the Indian economy. This is because, in spite of its relatively low and...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Asked...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on April 5, released its first bi-monthly monetary policy statement and with it, the monetary policy...
One of the positives of the present dispensation in Delhi is described as its pursuit of an active foreign policy. Some...
For decades, Gross Domestic Product has been used to evaluate the economic performance of a nation. It measures the...
The Indian economy, with its evolution and transformation over the past 25 years, has been a topic of discussion...
The budget is an important document that decides the course of the fiscal policy of the government over the...
The union Government has seen two important announcements in the recent past. Under the flagship Smart City Mission, it...
Evidence of corruption in a developing countries like India can cause massive turmoil. Two cases in point have been the near...
Startups form the basis of a more productive and prosperous nation. The growth of several countries in the past...
The recent congregation of investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs under the broad theme of Startup India Standup India is a good beginning....
The report of the Committee on Revising and Revitalizing Public Private Partnership Model of Infrastructure chaired by Dr. Vijay...
The RBI recently released two reports on the condition of banking and allied sectors in the India. The first...
