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By Rajiv Kumar & Samriddhi Prakash, Respectively Chairperson and Research Associate at Pahlé India Foundation Each year, the Union Budget is...
Last month, while hearing a long-running matter on air quality in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court issued a pointed caution: There cannot be a...
By Anita Inder Singh As many countries voice displeasure regarding the economically disruptive policies of President Donald Trump, they also...
By Siddharth Pai The conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted in a way that markets immediately understood, even if policymakers...
A joint statement released by the US and India confirm that they reached an interim agreement on the framework for reciprocal and mutually beneficial...
By Sanjay Motwani As India surges toward its digital destiny, it’s easy to focus on flashy milestones, labs, startup investments, and digital...
The Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) unanimous decision to retain the repo rate at the existing level was largely expected. The MPC also continued...
February is a highly anticipated month as the Indian government tables the Union Budget in Parliament. This year marks the 90th anniversary of a book...
By Giriraj Singh The Viksit Bharat Budget 2026-27 signals confidence, conviction and clear reform orientation at a time of global...
India’s foreign policy finds itself at a critical juncture. While much of the country’s external engagements remain deeply intertwined with its...
By Mohan Charan Majhi, Chief Minister, Odisha India stands at a decisive inflection point in its digital and economic journey. The next phase of...
By Manoj Purohit India stands as the world’s fourth-largest economy by GDP and among the fastest-growing economies globally. Considering the...
By Dharmakirti Joshi & Pankhuri Tandon A march of announcements generally makes February policy-heavy. The Union Budget and monetary policy review...
By Siddarth M Pai India’s fiscal history on share buybacks is a tug-of-war between capital formation and aggressive tax enforcement. Buybacks are a...
This year’s Budget was presented against an extraordinary global backdrop. An (albeit-imperfect) rules-based global order is rapidly unravelling....
The much-awaited 16th Finance Commission (FC) report was tabled in Parliament on Sunday. The report retained the 41% vertical devolution while making...
Somewhere between a 7-iron and a 7 am feeding schedule, it struck me that golf and fatherhood have a lot in common. Both demand patience, both test...
The Economic Survey for 2025-26 comes against a backdrop of the US making an all-out wager to attain global supremacy amidst the crumbling pillars of...
The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Act, 2025, passed by both houses of Parliament in December, represents a selective...
By Ron Dermer When I became Israel’s Ambassador to the United States in 2013, my wife and I arrived in Washington, DC with five children under the...
By Anant Goenka, president, FICCI The India-EU free trade agreement marks a defining moment in India’s economic diplomacy. Coming on the back of a...
India’s insider trading enforcement framework has evolved since the overhaul of the insider trading regulations in 2015. Over the past decade, the...
India’s messaging platforms are no longer just tools for personal communication. They underpin digital commerce, service delivery, and everyday...
E-commerce is one of the defining narratives of India’s economic transformation. What began as a niche, urban-centric phenomenon has rapidly become...
By TV Mohandas Pai & Nisha Holla Budget 2026 arrives at an inflection point in India’s economic journey. Over the past 12 years, India has...
Supply chains across the globe traditionally operate on the trinity of speed, reliability, and cost. However, since the US led tariff war, this...
Various regulatory measures taken up in the past six months—including regulatory tightening, enhanced surveillance, and punitive actions against...
I’ve just returned from a wonderful holiday in Thailand over the new year, and, my God, what a fabulous country. We hadn’t been there in over 10...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that his government is in “Reform Express” mode, having carried out several reforms ranging from income tax,...
Artificial intelligence will shape the 21st century much as steam power, railways, electricity, and the telegraph shaped the 19th. Those technologies...
India’s digital story is, by any measure, a remarkable achievement. In little over a decade, India has built public digital infrastructure that many...
Infrastructure investments are not only a prime driver of future GDP growth, but also generators of significant rural employment. A recent Morgan...
India’s success in manufacturing exports, particularly in electronics, autos, and renewables, depends on trade in intermediate and capital goods....
By Arvind Gupta & Saravanan Nattanmai India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has already delivered one of the most consequential financial...
By Siddharth Pai There was a time when learning to code felt like acquiring a second language, one you had to practice for years before you could...
One year of Trump 2.0 has turned out to be a shadow cast across the world, and 2026 is unlikely to lighten the shadow. While every country advances...
Over the past decade, India has seen a remarkable digital transformation. With among the world’s lowest mobile data tariffs and the highest levels...
When US President Donald Trump took office last January, most economists feared what would happen if he raised tariffs. The expectation was that as...
The latest initiative in the area of critical minerals is Pax Silica (PS). It is a US-led move which also includes countries such as Japan, South...
In an increasingly splintered world mired in geopolitical uncertainties, 2025 was a defining year to synchronise and reset international priorities on...
From January 1, every shipment of Indian steel and aluminium to the European Union will face a carbon tax as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment...
Related-party transactions (RPTs) occupy a governance grey zone: they can make businesses run more smoothly, but they can also become vehicles for...
By Amit Kapoor and Richard Dasher India is now becoming an unusually crowded graveyard of airlines. Carriers have repeatedly expanded and collapsed...
For over a decade, India has pursued one of the world’s most ambitious renewable energy transitions, rapidly scaling solar and...
Victor Hugo once wrote “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” In contemporary India, in the midst of drought in 2015-16, Prime...
By Harsh V Pant & Aditya G Sivamurthy The death of student activist Sharif Osman Hadi has once again plunged Bangladesh into chaos. Violent mobs...
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (WoN). It is really interesting how these two landmark...
With the United States in the hands of an unstable president, diplomacy is not the answer for a conflict-prone US-China relationship. The striking...
For decades, arguably for the entirety of human history, those with control over coal, oil, gas, and even steam and wood dictated the pace of global...
By Rashesh Mody In cricket, the most valuable player (MVP) is the one who consistently turns the tide with match-winning performances. In business,...