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Festive tax stimulus: Will a sales bounce mop up enough GST to plug revenue gaps?

Festive tax stimulus: Will a sales bounce mop up e...

2 months ago 6

Deepavali’s soul lost in glitter and cracker roar

Deepavali’s soul lost in glitter and cracker roar

2 months ago 6

Dynamic pricing is everywhere—from air tickets to train seats. Should it be?

Dynamic pricing is everywhere—from air tickets to ...

2 months ago 6

Trouble at the top: The Tata Group faces an important test of leadership

Trouble at the top: The Tata Group faces an import...

2 months ago 6

A US-Brazil partnership could counter China’s game of using rare earths as weapons

A US-Brazil partnership could counter China’s game...

2 months ago 6

Kaushik Basu: Is the emphasis on self-interest in economic theory rewarding a few at the cost of the many?

Kaushik Basu: Is the emphasis on self-interest in ...

2 months ago 6

Nobel prize-winning writers are often very hard to read—but that may be the point

Nobel prize-winning writers are often very hard to...

2 months ago 6

Long view: Is the West's alienation from its own culture going to be its undoing?

Long view: Is the West's alienation from its own c...

2 months ago 6

Andy Mukherjee: Would bitcoin’s pixie-dust maths work on Dalal Street?

Andy Mukherjee: Would bitcoin’s pixie-dust maths w...

2 months ago 6

Thinking of buying silver this Dhanteras? After a frenzied rally, the precious metal may not be worth the hype

Thinking of buying silver this Dhanteras? After a ...

2 months ago 6

Mideast deal done? Trump takes a victory lap as Gaza peace hangs by a thread.

Mideast deal done? Trump takes a victory lap as Ga...

2 months ago 6

Education's big shake-up: How AI is reimagining your child’s classroom

Education's big shake-up: How AI is reimagining yo...

2 months ago 6

Prakash Tandon: The quiet revolutionary behind modern Indian corporate leadership

Prakash Tandon: The quiet revolutionary behind mod...

2 months ago 6

Andy Mukherjee: As foreign investors pull money out, can India win back their confidence?

Andy Mukherjee: As foreign investors pull money ou...

2 months ago 6

Nobel award: Celebrate creative destruction but spare a thought for its impact beyond GDP growth

Nobel award: Celebrate creative destruction but sp...

2 months ago 6

Kerala’s proposed law promises faster public services—will it actually work?

Kerala’s proposed law promises faster public servi...

3 months ago 6

For the provident fund’s stability, its managers should heed RBI’s advice—align earnings with payouts

For the provident fund’s stability, its managers s...

3 months ago 6

India’s passport has slipped on the Henley Index chart: Is that a worry?

India’s passport has slipped on the Henley Index c...

3 months ago 6

Why recycled Diwali gifts are twice blessed: It’s the larger thought that counts

Why recycled Diwali gifts are twice blessed: It’s ...

3 months ago 6

American horror story: The US could turn into a zombie economy if it’s not careful

American horror story: The US could turn into a zo...

3 months ago 6

Global outlook: The world economy seems stable but that doesn’t mean the storm has passed

Global outlook: The world economy seems stable but...

3 months ago 6

Human-animal conflict: Policy must ensure farmers don’t bear the burden of wildlife conservation

Human-animal conflict: Policy must ensure farmers ...

3 months ago 6

Turn knowledge into prosperity: Joel Mokyr’s ideas could help India’s economy leap ahead

Turn knowledge into prosperity: Joel Mokyr’s ideas...

3 months ago 6

As data centres proliferate, do we have enough clean energy for them to guzzle?

As data centres proliferate, do we have enough cle...

3 months ago 6

Mint Quick Edit | Indian exports showed resilience last month but don’t celebrate yet

Mint Quick Edit | Indian exports showed resilience...

3 months ago 6

Let enterprise flourish: Policy mustn’t punish risk-takers in the name of reducing uncertainty

Let enterprise flourish: Policy mustn’t punish ris...

3 months ago 6

Five lessons from Joel Mokyr that explain why some economies soar and others stagnate

Five lessons from Joel Mokyr that explain why some...

3 months ago 6

Self-harm: America’s H-1B visa fee hike signals the triumph of ideology over market forces

Self-harm: America’s H-1B visa fee hike signals th...

3 months ago 6

Donors must change how they engage NGOs for India to achieve better social outcomes

Donors must change how they engage NGOs for India ...

3 months ago 6

Who has the upper hand as Beijing weaponizes rare earths in its trade clash with Washington?

Who has the upper hand as Beijing weaponizes rare ...

3 months ago 6

Go ahead, adopt AI for education, but sharpen the critical capacity of students too

Go ahead, adopt AI for education, but sharpen the ...

3 months ago 6

Google’s $15 billion plan for an AI hub in India: Is this the leap we need?

Google’s $15 billion plan for an AI hub in India: ...

3 months ago 6

Lawyers run the US and engineers run China: Has India struck an ideal balance?

Lawyers run the US and engineers run China: Has In...

3 months ago 6

Big promises, bigger gaps: Effective climate action demands a cohesive policy approach

Big promises, bigger gaps: Effective climate actio...

3 months ago 6

Ending quarterly reports won’t fix companies’ accounting issues. What would.

Ending quarterly reports won’t fix companies’ acco...

3 months ago 6

A local backlash against China’s K visa reveals cracks in China’s tech-driven growth dream

A local backlash against China’s K visa reveals cr...

3 months ago 6

Green acceleration: Tax policy should be recalibrated to speed up India’s transition to clean mobility

Green acceleration: Tax policy should be recalibra...

3 months ago 6

This year’s Nobel is a nod to the role of innovation and creative destruction in an economy: Think AI

This year’s Nobel is a nod to the role of innovati...

3 months ago 6

Price stability: What’s good for the near-term is great for the long-haul

Price stability: What’s good for the near-term is ...

3 months ago 6

From Industrial Revolution to China’s rise: 2025 Economics Nobel winner reveals secret to growth

From Industrial Revolution to China’s rise: 2025 E...

3 months ago 6

India's QCOs help lobbies but hamper manufacturing competitiveness. What's the way out?

India's QCOs help lobbies but hamper manufacturing...

3 months ago 6

Here's why Japan doesn’t need another round of Abenomics if Takaichi becomes PM

Here's why Japan doesn’t need another round of Abe...

3 months ago 6

Investors had better stay alert: If today’s AI bubble bursts, it won’t be a pretty sight

Investors had better stay alert: If today’s AI bub...

3 months ago 6

Shashi Tharoor: Strategic autonomy requires India to pursue its interests without taking sides in geopolitics

Shashi Tharoor: Strategic autonomy requires India ...

3 months ago 5

India’s growth depends on water— and climate change is making it scarcer for everyone

India’s growth depends on water— and climate chang...

3 months ago 6

Oceans are getting roiled while the fabric of world trade gets tattered: It mustn’t go too far

Oceans are getting roiled while the fabric of worl...

3 months ago 6

India’s electricity reforms: We mustn’t let the latest effort fizzle out

India’s electricity reforms: We mustn’t let the la...

3 months ago 6

Trade war escalation: Why India must watch the latest US-China stand-off closely

Trade war escalation: Why India must watch the lat...

3 months ago 6

America’s trade policy is misguided but looks unlikely to drag us back to the 1930s

America’s trade policy is misguided but looks unli...

3 months ago 6

It’s time for economists and policymakers to take a wider view of our national assets and growth drivers

It’s time for economists and policymakers to take ...

3 months ago 6