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...

yesterday 10

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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...

sunday 10

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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...

sunday 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 3

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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 2

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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 3

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10