Page 93 - Editorial Comment

Long way to go

e-NAM's success depends on APMC reforms

A realignment

RBI gives primacy to growth concerns

Premature assumptions

Opposition parties lack a coherent alternative plan

Sticking to his guns

Mr Trump promises bipartisanship, but his speech was divisive

Defusing a crisis

SC intervenes in an unnecessary stand-off in Kolkata

Welfarism and bias

Income tax rebate less justified than farm income support

Implementation worries

PM-KISAN, pension for informal sector face hurdles

Back to Feb 28

Advancing the Budget by a month not working out

Unsustainable welfarism

India needs a strong bond market to check electoral populism

Behind the speech

Budget speeches conceal more than they reveal

Controlled hand-outs: Fiscal discipline maintained in an election year

It is hard to argue against hand-outs to the distressed, but one must not lose sight of the fact that the fiscal space for the hand-outs has been created partly by squeezing existing scheme' funding

Good news or bad?

Revised estimates suggest GDP grew at 8.2% during note ban

Real crisis

NSSO jobs data negates demographic dividend

India's data blues

Statistical Commission resignations point to a deeper problem

Margins under pressure

Q3 corporate results indicate expenses outpacing revenue

Interim Budget 2019: Follow the convention

Govt should stick to fiscal propriety in Budget

Endgame in Afghanistan

India should be pragmatic in the wake of US withdrawal

A resounding nod

Supreme Court endorses the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

NPPA undermined

Govt decides to have bureaucracy set drug prices

Investigative overreach

Mr Jaitley is right to question CBI's adventurism