Sebi to fix promoters' side deals with PE investors

In defence of small shareholders

Business Standard

A rush job to meet GST's April 1 deadline can be risky

Two done, many more to go

The state can mandate ways for Indians to live together

The limits of intolerance

The Delhi High Court's notable judgment last week lifting a four-year ban on a photocopier kiosk on the Delhi University campus from providing students with "course packs" containing material from books published by three international publishers is unlikely to end the debate around copyright laws and their application. The votaries of a better alignment between Indian and global intellectual property rights (IPRs) will deplore the ruling, which struck down a petition filed by the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses and Taylor & Francis in 2012. There is no doubt that, taken together with India's lax enforcement of anti-piracy measures and the Supreme Court's rejection of a patent extension to Novartis in April 2013, the country's reputation as an IPR enforcer is unlikely to be enhanced.The publishers, however, had based their case on a narrow interpretation of the Copyright Act, saying that the reproduction of work could be allowed in classroom instruction or in an exam paper.

Copyright lessons

Status quo by key central banks implies more FPI inflows into India

Inflation doves soar

Government must come up with a clear strategy urgently

Wake up on air defence

The key issue is to enhance the carrier's autonomy

Rebooting railways

Subramanian panel has many good, and a few bad, proposals

Reading the pulse

FCNR redemption can be an opportunity to let the currency slide

Commotion over rupee

Near-term demand outlook has clearly deteriorated

IT's troubled times

After Uri, India must take a hard look at repeated security lapses

A grand failure, again

India needs to play its cards right this time

Indo-Nepal reset

The IIM issue has been fixed, but there is still a long to-do list

Mr Javadekar's agenda

Taxis on the Yamuna

Govt must revisit its approach to bilateral investment treaties

An own-goal on FDI

Municipal bonds are welcome, but there are risks too

Hasten slowly

Kerala, Tamil Nadu have shown the way on public health issues

Combating the epidemic

C-suite salaries need to take a governance test

Promoter-CEOs take it all

But India's space agency still has a long way to go

ISRO's cryogenic leap

Each state's share should be linked to the rainfall received

Cauvery's troubled waters

Mewat's biryani politics holds ominous portents

Beefed up for exclusion

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