While growth in India is largely domestic and hence the overall GDP effect may not be...
Privately, many bankers admit their immediate goal is not growth but slowing the...
India should convert the Trump threat to an India opportunity, re-embracing a more...
Net NPAs increased to Rs 36,260 crore in the December quarter from Rs 34,843 crore in...
The Budget has given signals that India is sensitive to the US needs and willing to...
While advancements in biotechnology hold immense promise for health and innovation,...
While the capital spending is being maintained at 3.1 per cent of the GDP, a little...
'If tax-and-spend was expected to trickle down, it has failed; India's rural wages are...
Anticipating US action on tariffs, India seems to have made the first move by revamping...
Simplifying investment policies at the micro level and introducing a time-bound...
The most striking features of this Budget was its focus on simplification and improving...
'The finance minister missed yet another opportunity to simplify the income tax...
'If it doesn't, it will continue with measures to infuse liquidity, signalling a new...
'... that it once again shies away from renewing its commitment to strategic...
While this will incur a revenue loss amounting to 0.2 per cent of GDP, it will provide...
The finance minister, in her Budget speech, should focus more on what she is directly...
The number of cyberfraud cases has skyrocketed from 2,677 in 1999-2000 to 29,082 in...
The time is ideal for a 'Dream Budget' akin to the 1991 reforms that sparked high...
The Budget should undertake further reductions in import tariffs and seriously consider...
The finance minister could improve the quality of public spending, which could mean...
Credit-focused SIFs with lower minimum investment thresholds can provide a more...
If the fiscal deficit target of 4.9% of GDP has to be met for 2024-2025, which the...
India has its share of both large tech companies and large national laboratories, but...
Headline growth was quite weak heading into the Covid period but averaged 6.4 per cent...
From CEOs to RBI governors, cricket's rich imagery and strategy resonate deeply with...
'If weak indicators persist, there is a risk that India could slip into a prolonged...
The RBI has changed the way it approached supervision in the past. Having seen a couple...
Shaktikanta Das is a master of the finest balancing act who listens to all but takes...
Average wages paid by listed companies is more than twice the salaries paid by other...
Damage from new shenanigans can be contained if regulators move quickly when something...
Instead of conceding the demand for a cut in personal income-tax rates, Finance...
Collectively, the pack of 12 has posted a 50 per cent rise in profits -- Rs 25,685...
The most important positive of India's stealth bull market is earnings growth across...
The RBI refuses to classify a cryptocurrency as an asset since it doesn't have future...
Perhaps the finance ministry or NITI Aayog could take a detailed look at what...
The need of the hour for the government would be to tighten its fiscal belt, recommends...
That's the only way to convince those who have money to return to the bank fold,...
Employees across segments, including those involved in specialised jobs such as...
The likelihood is that India will maintain a moderately upbeat economic tempo -- well...
Mutual funds, as experts and custodians of another set of retail investors' savings,...
Don't be surprised if growth in the second half of the financial year drops below 4%,...
It is now becoming increasingly clear that rising imports have played a significant...
The most important step is delivering what is needed -- a fairer IPO pricing, notes...
Seven years after Modi took office, merchandise exports were lower in 2020-2021 than...
Ajit Balakrishnan on keeping an eye on democratising finance in India.
Old ideas contained in the heads of old economists still dominate.That's not good,...
Just because India has outperformed the US markets in a short recent period, it does...
Probably 35 bps.There could be even an encore in February 2023 to take the policy rate...
Of the 2,562 customer complaints received between January 2020 and March 2021, a...
Every patriot should learn from our history and recognise that celebrating size will...
Since the bankcuptcy law came into effect from December 2016, with every quarter, the...
Because they have become too big and pervasive and the time to regulate is long gone,...
His advice was to always start with small positions because we are bound to make...
If the banks throw caution to the winds for building loan books, the hydra-headed bad...
Is self-reliance the right approach in a mega-buck game, or better to be part of a...
The branch managers have come out of their glass cabins and the sellers' market has...
A family man, a confident investor, someone who was sure two decades ago that India and...
Social media allowed them to connect even more directly with potential clients, and...
This is why it can fight out inflation, chin up, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The 6.7% growth in Index of Consumer Sentiments in July 2022 is the highest since...
India's growth in the last three financial years has averaged just 1.9%.It is natural...
The currency market won't care for our moans, groans, cries and sighs.The rupee will...
Merely bringing down the government stake below 51% may not find any taker for the...
Many banks' profits will take a hit and a few of them could even end up being in the...
Start-ups don't care that mad-money funding comes to a hard stop after an IPO, observes...
India's politicians need to do a better job of managing the economy: Inflation control,...
One thing is for sure: It smacks of the regulator's lack of confidence in the bank's...
Shifting to floating rate deposits can work as an anaesthetic gel for some customers,...
The dividends for the economy from such a rapid rise in capital expenditure would be...
If the central banks act harshly now, the markets will crash and then rally.If they are...
The most immediate challenge for growth is the disruption of the global economy brought...
The growth is particularly remarkable because it comes at levels higher than during the...
With the rise in interest rates, bond yields have been on the rise; this will dent...
The RBI's mistake may have been in interpreting its mandate to maintain retail...
Since 2016, Sebi has made many rules to prevent unauthorised trading by...
But there are challenges, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
This is one of the largest monthly increases in the labour force, observes Mahesh Vyas.
Indeed, there were frauds, and the politician-banker-industrialist nexus played a role...
Following the money and freezing anything unaccounted is the only way to set an example...
Ajit Balakrishnan on the evolution of a cultural symbol.
We'll need to wait a couple of years to see how many restructured loans turn bad and...
It would be larger than even in the pandemic year of 2020-2021, notes Mahesh Vyas.
It is the biggest issue we have ever faced in the securities market, where a sensitive...
'When resources are few; when frugality demands repairing a broken thing rather than...
In its scheme of things, tackling inflation now comes ahead of ensuring growth in the...
So, while it is great that India's numbers look relatively good, don't raise a cheer...
The employment situation remains dire.Whatever can be done to promote greater low-skill...
What the labour market statistics of March 2022 show is India's biggest sign of...
Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide...
Flush with liquidity, banks are eager to lend. And, therein lies the problem, warns...
When we look at the pension expenditure of the states, so far, there has been no gain...
'Rahul inspired Indian industry with an ethos, an ethos of being more confident, more...
This is reflected in an improvement in their sentiments as well, explains Mahesh Vyas.
'Did the Moneyball philosophy get redefined in the domain of the cash-rich IPL, which...
Since jobs will remain scarce for the foreseeable future, an unemployment allowance...
We have not suffered such huge price shocks across so many basic commodities, at the...
Since October, FPIs have sold over $26 billion worth of stocks, which is the largest...
Budget has already bombed at the box office and passing it without a revisit will be a...
Distribution yields could rise, but risk of Covid, higher interest rates remain.
'Valuations are very attractive, and most companies are cash-rich with strong dividend...
A change in the desire to buy consumer durables is perhaps the most important indicator...
An overwhelming proportion of the unemployed declare their nature of occupation as...
'All regulatory agencies must be made Constitutional bodies like the Election...
India added three unicorns per month in 2021 to nearly double the overall number to...
The rot is is not limited to Chitra Ramkrishna and the yogi, observed Debashis Basu.
The RBI has shelved its plan for polymer notes more than a decade after it invited...
If there were an Olympics for bank frauds in India, Rishi Agarwal, founder and former...
'If the almost literally heart-stopping Suez block has any positive outcome, it is to...
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
While most brokers have upgraded their backend systems to trade, their front-end...
Indian women have education, inspiration and perspiration -- but not enough employment,...
'The finance ministry's decision to accept the deficit target of 4.5 per cent in...
'The question often being asked is whether the demand for petrol and diesel is price...
Every political party loves to use the bait of loan waiver to woo the electorate. If...
The return of the unemployment rate to pre-lockdown times is not worth celebrating...
After years of disappointing growth, the economy and the markets are poised for a...
What is killing the risk appetite of the bond buyers is the inconsistency in the...
It is mystifying how the NSE, a near-monopoly, gets protection, as the February 24...
But it is disappointing to note that Sitharaman's third Union Budget continues to...
Mired in corruption, politics and with a history of suicides by its hapless depositors,...
Do the actual numbers bear out the claims made by the government or do they suggest...
We will find it difficult to exceed an average of 5 per cent growth in the medium term,...
Zohnerism drives our daily consumption of news and shaping our understanding of most...
The sad truth is that the debt-to-GDP ratio will shoot up close to 90 per cent in the...
Why do we need a bad bank, owned by the banks themselves when there are at least 28...
January 2021 more than recovered the loss of employment of the past three months, notes...
The promise of a less suspicious government is surprising.What about the disconnect...
Human memory about policy issues is short.That alone can explain why many are...
A faltering economy may have led to a re-think on economic strategy. And Mr Modi might...
Monetising online readership, a deeper focus on content and getting revenue from the...
The logic of deregulation was that the consumer was protected no matter what the price...
The finance minister did very well for equity market investors but not so with...
Whether one likes it or not, services constitute the value-addition sector that the...
The Modi government is notoriously honest about one fact: It does not listen to...
It is time he stood up and assured the middle class that they can count on him as one...
'Let us hope that this Budget delivers.''It needs 10 per cent plus real GDP growth in...
Of the three major Budget announcements related to the banking sector, privatisation of...
Bankers need to take a call on whether they will allow technology firms to run banks or...
There are several welcome standalone reforms, but these do not add up to a coherent...
It is important to increase employment in general.It is even better to increase good...
Given the dimensions, it is bound to have at least ripple effects across markets. Could...
Banks and friendly neighbourhood jewellers can serve as good channels to provide...
While a DFI will help banks derisk their loan portfolios, creation of a bad bank will...
That's because India does not have a serious venture capital industry with an appetite...
The Economic Survey will remain a documentation of the government's resolve to not...
You can make all the speeches you want, you cannot argue against 39 straight months of...
The Budget would have been the perfect vehicle to introduce some bold initiatives. That...
That is what you will hear again after Nirmala Sitharaman presents a speech that will...
Those who lost jobs in December were women, graduates, post graduates, salaried...
Markets are assuming that by the second half of 2021, the world will be approaching...
If Nirmala Sitharaman does indeed present a 'never-before' like Budget on February 1,...
If we work together with dedication, concentration and effort, we should be able to...
The only feasible way to have a healthy banking sector could be making it mostly...
'In India's case, using wrong information, and recourse to off-budget borrowing, masked...
The count of the unemployed mounted to 38.7 million in December 2020 compared to 27.4...
Alibaba's pervasive economic and social influence in China is seen as a threat to the...
The economy has shown sharp resilience in the past and has also bounced back in good...
The government should set up agricultural co-operatives in every cluster of villages...
'But can it afford to present a scenario within the existing legal framework of fiscal...
In the new decade, the scene will change because the banks till recently had been...
It is impossible for anyone to explain how markets are hitting record highs during an...
'In the real economy, the scars of the pandemic will continue to define 2021.''It is...
Even as both India and the world struggle to re-build after COVID-19, they face...
'The book captures Rana Kapoor's hunger for real estate leading to bungalows in Delhi,...
So far, there seems to be limited debate about their activities in India, where...
The cut in wages by companies whose operations were not shut by the lockdown was more...
'To keep the next catastrophe at bay, a carbon free economy will be an imperative.'Our...
'By November 2020, men recovered most of their lost jobs, but women were less...
We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays...
'Infusion of fresh capital, handsome growth in deposits and focus on recovery should...
The broadening of the market rally sends the signal that growth will be broad-based,...
The government kept its nerve in the face of a massive shock. It chose not to resort to...
The budget-making exercise offers golden opportunities despite challenges, observes...
India has too many small companies and this is inefficient.It should instead have only...
'The workers's dance of wilful destruction has the potential to kill all investments...
What can malls do to entice customers? Brand coach Ambi Parameswaran has a few...
Bad loans of PSBs are at Rs 20 trillion.Most of it is, I sense, due to corruption and...
Can the finance minister manage our expectations, asks A K Bhattacharya.
Even a rump Air India could not hope to get away with the shoddy service and scrappy...
If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to...
If indeed the gate opens for big industrial houses, the RBI needs to be smarter than...
Clearly, the extra borrowing of Rs 4.2 trillion the government has planned so far will...
It is not clear as to whether we are in a bubble in technology stocks. What is clear,...
The recovery seen in the increased economic activity till September or October is...
Its obsession for growth, chasing corporate clients and giving up its original mandate...
10 per cent for those who earn up to Rs 30 lakh a year and 25 per cent for those who...
The most common complaint of financial consumers is cumbersome processes, complicated...
The lockdown has taught companies a lesson or two on running business with fewer human...
How long will the RBI allow the government to borrow cheaply?A change in policy...
For the first time, consumers, including those at the so-called bottom of the pyramid,...
The only path to recovery of the economy lies in profit growth that triggers off...
These companies provide better quality jobs and so it is particularly reassuring to see...
The RBI, which has no interest or mechanism to get feedback from bank customers, is...
Both India and China talk now of self-reliance when their external trade, in relation...
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
Let all the stakeholders, especially the government, remember that if the Make in India...
Access to India's defence market must be made conditional -- available only to those...
To justify that farmers must burn if they are not paid cash incentive is doing...
Every option before the finance minister comes with a price tag, observes T N Ninan.
IThe fiscal deficit target for 2020-2021 was originally set at 3.5 per cent of GDP.But...
Keeping the employment rate from slipping is challenging.To merely keep the employment...
If credit card delinquency spells trouble, there may be questions with regard to the...
Historically, the RBI has tried to keep the crooks at bay by issuing a circular a day....
Bangladesh might overtake India this year by per capita income in nominal dollars, but...
India should not be left behind. It should join the seven central banks which are...
Are we seeing a replay of March 2000? What are the similarities and differences and how...
Nothing in India's recent history suggests that India can provide 8-9 million jobs a...
Scams happen with high regularity because the price of getting caught is...
...but are we chasing yesterday's dreams, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The oil sector has been quite lucky for the Modi government.It has often provided an...
That's why he is now finally focusing on the two things that alone can help: Fiscal...
The labour participation rate tells us how many of the working age population are...
There will be uncertainty about outcomes,but one must hope for the best, observes T N...
The problem is major, and the problem affects hundreds of millions of people.Ignoring...
'To all the MBAs that burn the candle at both ends, travel half-a-million miles every...
DDinesh Kumar Khara is someone who cares for others's ideas and suggestions. If he...
Unless we control the coronavirus, we are going to struggle to get our economy and...
'India is not so distant from years of high and entrenched inflationary expectations...
'The promises of netas and babus and new laws, however well-meaning, mean little.''What...
The manner in which India has allowed the rule of law to be subverted for over eight...
'There can be no dispute over the adverse impact such a policy will surely have on...
'Given all the linkages, the monthly registration data for new vehicles, may well be...
Is the RBI unable to accept with grace that beyond 55, one can have the ability to head...
The biggest loss of jobs among salaried employees was of 'white-collar professional...
'The answer for a quicker boost to growth is simple -- run a much larger deficit, use...
'The solution is to enable a graceful transfer of the deposit and funding 'franchise'...
Market estimates suggest the airline has already totted up Rs 1,800 crore of losses in...
And if there are so many opportunities, why haven't they invested in them, asks...
If banks cannot charge interest from borrowers during the moratorium, who will bear...
The last three prime ministers who served full terms started out in their early 70s. Mr...
The agency's poor track record in convictions is the only light at the end of a rather...
The question on who should borrow from the market and whether the borrowing will be...
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'This encourages escapism through the politics and economics of nationalism, made worse...
Risk aversion is currently a dominant depressant to economic recovery, points out...
What will be its impact on the banks's balance sheets? Since banks need to provide for...
There were 86 million salaried jobs in India during 2019-2020. In August 2020, their...
'The recalculated ranking showed India should have had a higher ranking earlier (113 in...
'With the June quarter GDP shrinking by nearly a quarter, there is an even greater...
This is a moment when the leaders at the Centre and states must show true leadership...
The industry is hoping the Tatas deepen their dive and offer two stable airlines -- a...
Apart from its enforceability through courts due to it being part of the I-T Act, two...
Pranab Mukherjee's stewardship of the economy will stand out as much for the manner in...
'The 20 to 24 age group accounted for 35% of job losses till July.''The 25 to 29 age...
'It may be prudent not to plunge into a new online tax appeals system in one go, which...
'Covid or no Covid, I knew I had made the right decision (calls from my bank to extend...
'The attention economy is making it economically valuable for us to spread our...
'Loss of these urban salaried jobs is, therefore, likely to have a particularly...
'The government has said it has kept its powder dry to fight the true battle against...
Will retirement bedim the sparkle of Captain Cool, asks ad guru Sandeep Goyal?
Under the watchful eyes of five wise men, who know the industry well, banks will not...
When it comes to Mr Portnoy, it is hard to claim that his trading patterns are any more...
Opening up India's market to neighbouring countries can be as strategic as access...
What will the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government do to answer the queries and fears...
What makes the SBI case even more curious is that the government didn't insist on a...
'Under this government, tax laws have become more draconian, and the government itself...
'The much-awaited decision could be a welcome change at a time when the Indian armed...
Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The financial sector has been deeply troubled since 2013. It is now in a full-blown...
The government may have to resort, eventually and however unwillingly, to printing...
'Three external members of the first MPC are respected researchers with excellent...
While salaried jobs are not lost easily, once lost they are also far more difficult to...
'In a serious fiscal situation like this, an ostrich-like focus on annual budgeting,...
The recovery momentum could be petering out well before the recovery is complete, notes...
The problem is with the broking model and what brokers are allowed to do, notes...
Mukesh Ambani is stringing in new partnerships within the Reliance ecosystem with the...
'We get to know secrets such as some of India's top-rated firms do not always make...
They have everything they wanted as a teenager - only they seem to have got it all 50...
India is today the second-largest telecom market in the world with over a billion...
While the lockdown hit employment in all age groups, it hit the employment of...
The employment that is returning is mostly essential services required by Indian...
'The CEO will neither be able to guide the senior team in operational matters nor...
The hack may have been done by a rogue Twitter employee, or it may have been a smart...
'The most important thing to do is to stop taxing citizens so brutally,' recommends T C...
'The finance ministry and public sector banks have tried to keep the names of wilful...
India has no option but to shut China out, notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The IT industry advisories show that they think they've weathered the worst, observes...
'An explanation perhaps lies in the culture of revisions that has grown deep roots in...
'India is home to the third-largest number of family-owned businesses in the world.'...
'It won't be easy to undo the damage that has been done to the economy by the lockdown...
India's Internet economy has two choices: An immediate $30 billion Sale-and-Leaseback...
'Google and Facebook need to be tamed, their garb of 'Investing in India's future' need...
'Mr Modi has a huge opportunity before him.''Whether he grabs it the way Mrs Gandhi did...
We import from China not because we love China, but because they sell us these things...
'The PSBs ended up recording Rs 7,709 crore losses in the March quarter compared to the...
Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would...
'India's future: To manufacture so efficiently that we do not need protection,' says...
History shows us that even effective vaccines could have unknown side effects that...
'The road ahead for the government's fiscal management will be full of many new...
'This is for the first time home loan rates have dropped below 7 per cent,' notes Tamal...
'When fund managers talk of being bullish for the long term, they assume strong...
'Usually, urban wage rates are 50 per cent higher than rural wage rates. But, this...
Fintechs need to behave with responsibility and transparency. A lot of mis-selling has...
'This is the first time there has been an attempt to use market forces to counter...
It is time the government cast its net wide for seeking expert advice on managing the...
'As for tricky relations with China, India needs less of summitry type event management...
'Real estate loans are given in the garb of retail loans, sourcing money cheap from the...
'India imports 70 per cent of its bulk drugs from China. Are we going to live without...
The bosses of SBI, Union Bank and Central Bank have been driving down to their offices...
'There is a misconception that gold is a dead asset in India.''Around 30 per cent of...
Yes, India needs desperate measures to kick-start growth. But selling off its lungs to...
Every time the Indian economy has faced headwinds due to international developments,...
'The first year of the Modi government's second term has laid the roadmap for the...
'Anyone can string together a few alliterative words, but are they a substitute for...
'People are getting back to work.''The worst seems to be over.''It is very likely that...
Microsoft top boss Satya Nadella feels the increase in productivity has come at the...
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with...
The timing is ripe for the creation of multiple special situations realty focused...
'Banks have to be braver, willing to take more risks and give confidence to the...
When emerging from this crisis, the govt must consider a fresh approach to reviving...
'Given that the economy is going through a slowdown, further downward revisions of the...
Do the words 'fiscal deficit', whenever they come up for discussion anywhere - be it...
There is a pattern to the Modi government's economic decisions.The follow-up, the...
Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Like doctors, health workers, police, bankers are also COVID warriors,' notes Tamal...
'Leaders of the Indian community in Hong Kong had broached the idea of developing the...
'It may sound like sacrilege, but does it really matter if the global raters downgrade...
'Businessmen like Rajiv render public service when they speak truth to power,' observes...
'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.''That is...
'Instead of wailing about the absence of tax benefits, the private sector should press...
'Employees may well be expected to be on call at almost all times -- much like the...
'As banks grapple with risk aversion and savers see an erosion in the value of money,...
'When the lockdown grounded a billion people, nothing had been planned well: Testing,...
Dhirubhai may or may not have owned the government; it would seem his son wants to own...
In the midst of huge job losses as a fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Tamil Nadu...
The best available recourse to keep the defence sector healthy, is to source most of...
'The stimulus message was tagged on to what was meant to be an exhortation to...
'Credit expansion is probably the quickest way to get the economy going again.''Easy...
Will people buy as many cars as before if more office-goers are working from home? How...
'The belief that FDI will shift from China appears to be a strategy of politicians to...
'Over 27 million youngsters in their 20s lost their jobs in April.''33 million men and...
'In times of recovery, we may see a rural-urban divide with the urban pockets affected...
Whether it took the corona crisis to bring about the transformation, or otherwise, the...
'Now is the time for India to course correct and for the government also to course...
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live,...
'Modi has not lacked courage in the political sphere. It is time he showed it in the...
'A balanced head plus heart approach would be a full opening up of the economy...
'Two consecutive quarters of negative growth are the technical definition of an...
'I have no problems with the finance ministry or with state governments treating petrol...
'As much as $4 billion in India's start-up companies has come from Chinese...
'A total overall of the existing way of working by abolishing taxes and allowing...
'Banks are being encouraged to lend instead of parking their resources with the RBI and...
'MFs acted as reckless lenders and not as prudent investors.''Clearly, how debt funds...
'How do we ensure that the unlocking, which is desperately needed for earning income...
'The impact of COVID-19 on the economy has been so overwhelming that even a significant...
'This is not without risk because extraordinary steps taken in exceptional times have...
'India-China economic ties are likely to take a hit in the wake of the new situation,...
'Once the lockdown is lifted, we will need the mother of all fiscal and monetary policy...
'One way of doing this could be offering credit guarantee to the banks, say 10 per...
'Their dharma propels them to pay their workers; otherwise, they know the boys would...
'How the lockdown is phased out or lifted will tell us if the government has succeeded...
'The economic impact of this lockdown is evidently huge.''Its impact on the livelihood...
'We do not know when we will get to the business-as-usual mode.''Many borrowers may not...
'No one cares about fiscal deficit now. Or for that matter, inflation.''The focus is on...
'We may have moved back three decades on the fiscal situation,' notes T N Ninan.
Not just in the fight against COVID-19, but also in politics, economics and society,...
'If the government was serious about co-opting the corporate sector meaningfully in the...
'Common sense says if one can afford, servicing the loans during this period is a...
'The telecom companies are our lifeline now, despite having nearly collapsed under debt...
'A large number of people are suddenly waking up to the fear of losing jobs,' says...
'It is hard to imagine a sector which will not be violently affected by the health...
Now that the coronavirus induced economic mess has provided the occasion, opportunity...
The government has an opportunity right now to save Indians from deep recession, and in...
'So far, no government has imposed a financial emergency in the country,' notes A K...
'Even before the outbreak of the flu, it had become clear that the tax revenue numbers...
Banks can collapse, markets can be rigged, investment instruments can become worthless...
'Most of the testing capacity in India is in the private sector.''Whether it is the...
What might be useful is targeted assistance to those sectors and individuals that are...
'The impact of economic sho�cks on the labour markets is usually on the young who delay...
'If the epidemic is sharply contained in a month or two, we have a huge buying...
'Tens of millions will be working from home for months at a time, which means the...
'The new trains should be fast, but the roll-out of the privatisation plan should be...
'The RBI has not allowed any commercial bank to fail in the past three decades.''It has...
'While growth will bounce back from the current sub-5 per cent, it will stay lower than...
'The coronavirus epidemic highlights the need to start thinking more actively about...
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.
'As the 1991 experience showed, the solution to a large trade deficit may be to open up...
'All these incidents go to show that the day of the anodyne, apolitical corporation is...
'The government has given up its focus on economic growth because it it not something...
'The snakes and ladders game will continue till the consolidation process is complete...
How do we get back to higher trend growth?The heart of the problem lies in private...
The ones who came more recently were clutching the green cards that gave them an escape...
'All the three stakeholders will have to sacrifice their current position and find an...
'The assumed linear correlation between forced lower yields, higher bank borrowing from...
'Modi's strategy to redesign India's economy was Make in India, but that has flopped,'...
'Appellants may not lap up the scheme because, first, to do so would amount to...
Has the advent of technology made it easier, or more difficult, for brands to...
'If such inflows materialise, what will be the effect on the rupee's value -- and...
'Nirmalaji's Budget announcements have long-term implications and are not backed by...
Mr Modi should be conscious that it was his choice to slash the number of tax-payers...
The government should have mentioned clearly the specific structural reforms that were...
'For those looking at forward-looking signals for the economy from the stock markets,...
Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, T C A...
'What is unusual about the current period of slow growth is that it has come without an...
'Wage earners are shrinking. In both, the organised and unorganised sectors. And,...
If the finance minister's tax proposals have stimulated demand at all, it's for CAs,...
'The new ceiling will cover around 93 per cent of all deposit accounts, up from 90 per...
The Economic Survey seems convinced that 2019-2020 saw the bottom of the economic...
'More a show that you are doing something in the Budget even if that something never...
'The Modi doctrine of national Budget is clear now.''If six of these in a row did not...
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to e-commerce controversies.
No attention to detail seems to have been paid while introducing such a major provision...
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
'The next general election is four years away. That's enough time to recover --...
'It is almost certainly wrong in assuming that the Modi government will use its strong...
'Air India's privatisation is acceptable as long as its control does not pass on to a...
'India is growing at the lowest rate in the last decade.' 'If it continues in that path...
Construction companies will make money building detention centres. Information...
'I am sure Dr Patra will get the fullest cooperation from the finance minister who...
The immediate need is to put more money in the hands of agriculture-based and rural...
'The global corporates are concerned: You used to have policy predictability, now it's...
'There is a time for lowering one's expectations of the economy -- and therefore not...
Piyush Goyal's comments about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's investment in India reveals...
'The BJP has shown signs lately of returning to its trader mindset.''Several strong...
How Bajaj, Colgate, Raymonds, Zee lost out..Strategic errors have hurt many companies,...
'The slide in growth has arisen primarily because we have an NBFC crisis on top of a...
Neither the CAA nor the proposed NRC are important enough to stake the well-being of so...
Amid slowing growth and low interest rates, investors will need to focus on...
'We may bite the bullet and draw up plans for privatisation.''If that is done now, the...
'The economy has to become the government's No. 1 priority, which it is not at the...
As a well-wisher of the Indian Statistical System and part of the system for more than...
'The current crisis is one of incomes, driven by poor job growth, agrarian distress and...
'When bankers are hounded by investigative agencies for credit decisions going wrong...
'While consumers have benefited tremendously from rock-bottom telecom tariffs, the...
'With a less than comely bride and no dowry to speak of, the prospects of landing a...
'By not only decriminalising routine business failures, but by ensuring that...
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
'It is feared that AI can predict the outcome of a case once it is launched.''It knows...
'Industry observers are certain the next attempt will succeed even if they have to...
'If India can only grow at 5%, why bother spending time on the country?' asks Akash...
If India Inc sincerely feels the separation of posts is not a good governance measure,...
'The Modi government is trying hard to see if it could be sold to a private...
'The advertising business, methinks, needs to tone down a bit. Take control of itself,...
'The AMs are a different beast and reflect the political play within the...
'The finance minister in her Budget speech should spell out how exactly she intends to...
'The focus for IT companies will shift from adding scale to building a smaller, more...
Women dominate Indian banks's clerical and officer rolls, but few make it to the...
'With the big political job done, the time has come to pay attention to the economy,...
'What stood out at these meetings between industry representatives and government...
In a country where crimes are rampant, including financial crimes with ATMs sometimes...
'Perhaps GST was too complex a system for the Indian economy at its present stage of...
'Defence funding is channelled to State-owned research organisations where scientists...
'Given the emerging trends, it may be time for India to embrace digital banking,' notes...
'The current budgetary practice of shifting expenditures off-balance sheet in order to...
Individual banks should break away from the industry pact and have their own...
'What amazes me the most is that today users communicate with voice-activated speakers...
In fact, no other recent Union Budget has held so much significance for the Indian...