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As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to be worried

BJP's one main old rival is declining across the country, and it's being replaced by new noisier, sharper, more populist and ruthless challengers

BS Views of the week: RBI rate hike, Indian judiciary, telecom market, and more

Numbered in the millions

It is perfectly fair to dispute the exact methodology used by the WHO's research team

Ominous omissions

Condemned poets lie scattered across eras and geographies with unique political exigencies and religious compulsions

Counting the true death toll

When somebody dies, there may or may not be a medical death certificate

Faster, cheaper and cleaner power

Solar emerged as the third-largest source last year, with wind power close behind

The missing CDS

The untimely demise of the first chief of defence staff has sent the issue of joint theatres back to the start line

A true picture of the post-pandemic future

There are very few issues that the report has failed to mention or explore in depth

Building buffers and using them

Letting the rupee weaken may be the least bad option; raising interest rates to slow imports is too blunt an instrument

Inefficiency, out of court

Poor governance is adding to judiciary's woes

Consumer sentiments rise slowly

Wounds of pandemic-induced lockdowns on households are healing

Global disruptions and non-cooperation

The first problem has been the very premise of the globalisation project

Traversing across the hope and fear

Each Indian firm has to reconcile internal strength with three external threats

Macro challenges of micro lenders

The freedom to fix interest rates has encouraged a few MFIs to jack up rates on Day One. It will take a while for borrowers to get the benefit as products, processes and digitisation evolve

Mutually assured detention

Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. Fightback has become an established pattern and will get more intense

A legacy and a burden

Pratibha Singh will inherit her husband's legacy, though its negative aspects might be a little bit moderate

An uncertainty tolerance test for brands?

Many brands today are still guessing if the worst is behind us

Wimbledon's double fault

In football, FIFA and UEFA have banned the Russian national football team and those from the Russian Premier League

Internet will never be the same again

Under the DSA, users will have to be informed if their content is taken down, along with a statement of reasons

The march of folly

India should work for an alliance of like-minded neutral states to restrain the adversaries in the new Cold War