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Beyond weather gods

Policy missteps to blame for farmers' plight

Good news on earnings

Early corporate results point to recovery

Telangana solution: Paying cash to farm landowners is riddled with problems

The state's move seems to be aimed primarily at cost reduction without covering the price risks

Stop attacking capital: Eco Survey lays out road map to revive investment

The question of how a revival in investment can be engineered is particularly vexed

Act fast on RCEP: India-Asean trade growth has been underwhelming

India's achievement in terms of growing trade relations with Asean has been underwhelming

Hold your horses: Equities are expensive but reasons are not enough to exit

There are indications that a double-digit earnings recovery for the corporate sector is not far

Verifying credible news

Facebook's idea of user surveys is fraught with risks

Bailing out govt: ONGC-HPCL deal has logic, but can't address fiscal woes

ONGC and HPCL are two companies that are run on vastly different management styles

To be able to solve the job riddle, govt needs to improve payroll data

Govt should make EPFO data available to researchers to find the truth about employment numbers

Make liberal India a reality

PM's Davos speech contrasts with unfortunate domestic trends

Message from Davos: PM Modi's signals should be transformed into action

Modi outlined three main challenges that the world was facing: Terrorism, climate change, and protectionism

World Bank needs to restore the credibility of 'ease of doing biz' rankings

Two researchers from the Centre for Global Development (CGDev) have shown how changes in the methodology may have negatively portrayed Chile when it was ruled by the socialist president, Michelle Bach

The threat of cryptos: Unregulated, new asset class can disrupt economy

Cryptocurrencies have gained so much traction in the past year that many governments have been forced to review these instruments.

Rethink contract farming: Making it happen doesn't require a new law

The real danger is that the involvement of the law enforcement bureaucracy at every stage, as envisaged in the Centre's model Bill, might actually prove counterproductive

Towards simplification: Ease of paying GST is a long-pending reform

The GST, which has been in the works for years, should ideally have been better designed when it was launched, and that would have enabled a smoother transition

Delhi slums to Jamaica: How a 16-yr-old made it to Usain Bolt's academy

Story of sixteen-year-old Nisar Ahmed, son of a rickshaw-puller, who has made it to Usain Bolt's training academy

Engineering gender equity: A quota for women in IITs is unlikely to work

The bigger doubt is whether this "quota system" will further the cause of female engineers in any meaningful way

Welcome excision: After Haj, govt must cut subsidies to other events

Scrapping the Haj subsidy alone will do nothing to enhance India's global reputation for multiculturalism

Don't run to the RBI: Banks should manage treasury portfolios by themselves

The yield curve has steepened sharply; and banks fear the spike in bond yields has caused profits to decline equally sharply

Education pangs: Despite RTE, Indian teens have dismal foundational skills

While only 5.3% are not enrolled in formal education at the age of 14 years, this number jumps sharply as the years roll by; by age 17 this percentage quadruples to 20.7% and further increases to 30