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Many Indians are expressing their unhappiness with income taxes on social media, even though few pay any. However, most of the 75 million individuals...
A little over three years ago, the World Bank scrapped its annual “Doing Business” report amid allegations that its top management had applied...
India’s economy needs a readjustment, and not just in fiscal and monetary policies. The whole folklore around emulating China’s multi-decade...
India’s market regulator has unearthed a plot to allegedly generate millions of dollars in illegal gains through the legitimate trades of a large...
In the quirky world of Indian English, “timepass” is of relatively recent vintage. Its first known appearance was in a newspaper article from 1982....
Disaster. Flop. Average. If you had to bet on a Bollywood movie’s fate in 2024, those would have been your three best options in a year set to end...
E-commerce in India is a political and regulatory minefield. US consumer giant Walmart Inc. — which has been waiting to launch the much-anticipated...
Five years ago, policymakers in New Delhi were in denial about a funk in wage incomes so deep that Indians were skimping on 7 cent cookies. Much...
The US bribery case against Gautam Adani has become something of a suspense thriller. Everyone is waiting to see if the scandal will halt the...
The real India lives in her 700,000 villages, Mahatma Gandhi once said, and generations of schoolchildren across the country memorized the words as...
Donald Trump is not India’s No. 1 problem. At least not right now. His hawkish trade policy may well emerge as an outsize threat to supply chains...
Bankers in Hong Kong and Singapore are in for a few busy months financing a rush of shipments from Asian exporters into the US ahead of President-...
The world’s two most-populous nations began to open up to the world around the same time, in the early 1990s. But while both grew rapidly and...
The run-up to this year’s Diwali festival was more than a tad dim for India’s stock market. Foreigners pulled out $10 billion in October, even more...
Quick commerce, the most powerful driving force of India’s consumer economy, is what happens when a 5,000-year civilization sets a 10-minute timer...
The carnival of capital expenditure that was awaiting Narendra Modi’s return to power in India seems to have been delayed. That’s partly because...
Barely four months after returning to power with a reduced parliamentary majority, Narendra Modi’s government looks tired and shaky. But a surprise...
Late last month, Hong Kong began a second round of pilot programs for e-HKD, a much-awaited electronic version of the island’s banknotes. The...
Nearly a quarter century after investors formed a private corporation to build and manage a hillside resort four hours from Mumbai, just 5,000...
Ignoring the credibility crisis at the very top of the Securities and Exchange Board of India won’t make it go away. Nor will chair Madhabi Puri...
Most people see “blockchain” and “funds” in the same sentence and immediately think of pools of money betting on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and...
A shortage of deposits is starting to unnerve India’s bankers and policymakers. The lenders’ worry is more understandable than the authorities’....
Amid the ongoing row between a New York-based short seller and the Indian market regulator, a completely different controversy is brewing. It...
Singapore property owners have spent a long time languishing in the shadow of the chart-topping performance of the island’s banks. But with US...
Hindenburg Research’s allegations of potential conflict in the Adani inquiry against the chief of India’s market watchdog — denied by her and the...
Asia’s richest man, who made a glamorous splash this year with a $600 million wedding bash for his son, is now in a battle to hawk fashion to...