Page 120 - Editorial Comment

Change in the base year for GDP, IIP, CPI baseless

Govt should prioritise releasing back series for national statistics

India's diplomatic efforts against cross-border terror bearing fruit

An increase in costs and in the risk profile of Pakistan-related transactions will impose significant economic pain

Address ownership issue: Functioning of PSBs seeks urgent corrective action

Public friction between the government and the central bank does not help

Govt's move to protect industry ignores both economic theory and history

Those who wish to blindly ape the Donald Trump-era United States' trade policy clearly have never bothered to think hard about the economic consequences of their actions in India

The promise of Hyperloop comes with significant technical & cost challenges

Indeed, the technology itself is not yet beyond proof of concept

Wrong connection: Trai's position on predatory pricing defies logic

The problem lies in Trai's interpretation and description of predatory pricing

Strangling digital payments: RBI's e-wallet KYC norms are too restrictive

The thinking behind the RBI's action is clear, albeit faulty

Govt must ensure coal denationalisation works to make it a game changer

Regulations must be conducive for competitive and sustainable price discovery

Cauvery river dispute verdict: A landmark judgment by SC

Treating water as a national asset is a welcome correction

Worrying trend: India's export woes have little to do with global demand

Expectedly, the trade deficit has expanded briskly; by $131 billion in the first 10 months of 2017-18 against $88 billion in the same period last year

Why Prasar Bharati is in the midst of a crisis

No point in spending public money if it cannot run independently

Bullets with bullets: UP must reconsider its approach to police encounters

One of the key reasons why UP has traditionally struggled in attracting corporate interest has been the shoddy state of law and order in the state

Regulatory lessons: India should reduce dependence on the banking system

The central error here is that the SWIFT inter-bank communication system is not monitored as carefully as it should be by some Indian banks

Discounting e-commerce: Taxing online discounts is illogical

The rationale is that discounts constitute marketing expenditure, incurred to build market share or a brand

Think employment: Centre's withdrawal of labour law reform is unfortunate

A first step should be to re-issue the industrial employment deregulation proposal, which has just been withdrawn

Winning in cricket matters, but how you win matters, too

Kohli's aggressive mannerisms are seen almost inseparable from India's growing dominance in international cricket

Bank vulnerabilities: PNB fraud exposes failure of systems and oversight

False letters of undertaking were used as a basis for branches abroad of other Indian banks to transfer funds in dollars on behalf of PNB

Searches that mislead: Lessons from CCI's order against Google

The first complaints were made in 2012 by Bharat Matrimony.com and Consumer Unity Trust Society

Patently misleading: India's IP regime not as poor as made out to be

Though the report also lists some weaknesses in the Indian IP regime, these are not entirely incontrovertible

RBI cracks the whip: New NPA rules may mean short-term pain for banks

The other big change is the focus on timely identification of bad loans and the speedy resolution of such assets