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Market tremors signal a structural shift as tech firms confront a faster, leaner future

The sharp sell-off in technology stocks to Anthropic’s latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) should be read not as a verdict on one...

12.02.2026 30

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Costly energy pivot

Times are a-changing with India’s commitment to stop directly or indirectly buying deeply discounted Russian oil that met a significant part of its...

11.02.2026 20

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Policy continuity

With the policy repo rate left unchanged at 5.25% and the stance retained at “neutral”, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has clearly signalled...

08.02.2026 30

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Slow progress

In the Budget for FY27, the Centre’s total budgetary expenditure is estimated to rise by a modest 7.7%, lower than the projected nominal GDP...

07.02.2026 20

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Taxing the risk

A few months ago, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was refreshingly candid in acknowledging that retail investors are consistently losing money in...

05.02.2026 20

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Resilience over applause

The Union Budget for 2026-27, to be unveiled on Sunday, is being framed under an unusually heavy cloud of external uncertainty. The global economy is...

01.02.2026 20

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Put assets to work

Given India’s ambitious growth targets, vast infrastructure needs, and the limits of debt-financed expansion, the forthcoming Union Budget should...

31.01.2026 20

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Trade without walls

India and the European Union (EU) have concluded negotiations for a mutually beneficial free trade agreement (FTA) that would leverage a combined...

30.01.2026 20

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Jobs as growth push

As the government stated in a press communique in October last year, “employment carries both economic and social weight (and) higher job levels...

28.01.2026 20

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Right to breathe

Delhi woke up to clearer skies this week, courtesy an obliging spell of rain. Air quality levels dipped, visibility improved, and, briefly, the...

27.01.2026 30

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Earnings, not narrative

Much before Bernstein downgraded its stance on Indian equities in early January, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) had already begun voting with...

25.01.2026 30

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Regulating better

Claims by IndiGo that it has put its house in order after last month’s operational collapse—which left over 300,000 passengers stranded following...

23.01.2026 50

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Substance over shelter

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Tiger Global tax dispute closes a long-standing ambiguity over how India applies tax law to offshore investment...

19.01.2026 30

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Taxing agri incomes: A proposal that could be a game-changer in boosting budgetary outlays

As Budget 2026 is only weeks away, there is bound to be intense speculation about what it entails for important sectors of the economy like...

13.01.2026 40

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Freedom’s limit

Deregulation is increasingly becoming a key strategy for economies worldwide, as they seek to wriggle out of persistently low growth. The need to do...

11.01.2026 30

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Choking on inaction

The Supreme Court’s latest rebuke of a government body over hazardous air pollution in Delhi is warranted, given the persistently tardy response to...

10.01.2026 20

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Puzzling growth

Even as India’s headline (real) GDP growth hit a six-quarter high of 8.2% in Q2FY26, with a steady year-on-year acceleration for four quarters in a...

07.01.2026 30

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Tariffs as theatre

Donald Trump has done it again. At a moment when negotiations on an India-US trade agreement are already moving at a crawl, the maverick US president,...

07.01.2026 30

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Zomate debate – When ‘fair’ is tone-deaf

Zomato and Blinkit Founder Deepinder Goyal’s comments suggesting that the quick-commerce ecosystem operates in a “fair” manner come across as...

04.01.2026 30

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RCEP minus China

2026 definitely begins on an upbeat note for India’s trade strategy, which has weathered adverse headwinds due to the tariff disruption of US...

03.01.2026 30

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Hard choices

The Centre’s move to adopt the debt-to-GDP ratio as its primary fiscal anchor offers greater room to manage public finances without abandoning the...

01.01.2026 30

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Year of pink slips

Corporate India, like its counterparts across the world, rediscovered the blunt instrument of layoffs in 2025 too. As growth slowed in some sectors...

30.12.2025 40

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Drive innovation

The government frequently proclaims that it has placed research and development at the heart of the journey towards Viksit Bharat@2047. In a press...

28.12.2025 30

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Liquidity matters

With benchmark bond yields having hit a nine-month high of 6.67% despite a 125 bps cut in the repo rate, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been...

28.12.2025 30

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China’s trade challenge

China’s recent decision to take India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its industrial policy marks a subtle but significant shift in the...

26.12.2025 40

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Coping with US tariffs

The focus of attention on the latest trade data for November has been unduly on India’s export performance to the US despite the 50% tariff...

24.12.2025 30

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Redrawing lines

The central government’s assurance that it will not relax mining rules for the Aravallis offers little comfort to those alarmed by a newly adopted...

24.12.2025 20

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Facts rather than hype

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has done the Indian information technology (IT) industry a service by choosing clarity over rhetoric on artificial...

23.12.2025 30

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Capital gains

In a ringing endorsement of India’s fast-growing banking and financial services sector, foreign capital is pouring into the space. Mitsubishi UFJ...

20.12.2025 10

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Well left

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) appears to have learnt from global experience about the pitfalls of sharply separating brokerage...

19.12.2025 10

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Welcome reforms

The Insurance Amendment Bill passed by Parliament on Wednesday marks the most substantive overhaul of India’s insurance framework in years, though...

19.12.2025 20

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Close the gap

With the Centre’s gross tax revenues (GTR) in the first seven months of FY26 growing by just 4%, analysts fear full-year collections could fall...

17.12.2025 20

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Keep the stable door closed

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar’s scepticism about stablecoins deserves far more attention—and respect—than it has...

16.12.2025 20

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A bridge still too far

On the face of it, the prospects for sealing a bilateral trade with the US, after five rounds of negotiations, do appear propitious. President Donald...

16.12.2025 20

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Turning pitch

India’s largest streaming platform, JioStar, may have dismissed speculation that its multibillion-rupee cricket rights contract with International...

13.12.2025 40

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Quick commerce reset

India’s brutally competitive quick-commerce market is clearly heading for a shakeout, as Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa predicts. He’s probably...

12.12.2025 20

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Only a few swallows…

The flurry of investment announcements by global technology majors is a ringing endorsement of the Indian market. At a time when foreign direct...

11.12.2025 30

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Fission & fusion

A Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act, 1962, and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010, is likely to be approved by Parliament in the...

11.12.2025 30

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Dialogue without a plot

It’s a string of claptrap dialogues that fall flat without a credible plot. The multiplex industry’s concerns about Netflix’s potential...

10.12.2025 30

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In a spot

04.12.2025 30

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A fair runway

03.12.2025 30

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DoT mandates are sprints to nowhere

03.12.2025 30

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Move fast on free trade

02.12.2025 10

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Sterling show

30.11.2025 20

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Justice for a price

28.11.2025 30

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Requiem for Russian oil

27.11.2025 20

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Multilateralism is alive

26.11.2025 30

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Flawed forecasts

26.11.2025 20

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For a modern workforce

24.11.2025 20

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A weaker rupee

23.11.2025 20

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