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7.5% growth not enough

The divergence in real GDP growth and employment growth may continue into 2022-23, although it could be much smaller

Colo fraud: Will CBI do what Sebi did not?

If the CBI wants to get at the truth, it has to cast its net wide, without fear or favour

Games foreign banks want to play on Indian turf

They are not willing to explore the mass market, fighting it out with local banks. The new target is the cream of retail business, which has been growing at a speed never seen before

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The Indian Entitled Service

Some posts are not named but a number of posts at a certain level are declared to be "encadred" or reserved

Bollywood economics

Given the significance of music in Hindi films, it is not surprising that filmmakers chose to milk it for ideological reasons

Behind the curve on metaverse

The metaverse won't work unless it's a seamless environment available on the move

Secular Islamophobia

BJP's political bulldozer has crushed the political skills and imagination of its rivals into rubble. It's made them Islamophobic in that they'd rather not identify with Muslims in any visible way

The provincialisation of All India Services

All India Services were to be all India in character for a purpose. Any dilution of this central tenet should worry policymakers

Index funds are here to stay

As the asset management industry grows in heft, and within it the index funds gain traction, it is this ability to engage that will influence how corporate India functions

A vision for US-India economic partnership

Both countries must play the central role in developing the economic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific

PLI scheme with a return for the government

Despite the massive opportunity cost of the PLI scheme, there is considerable enthusiasm amongst the proponents of the scheme

China renews focus on financial self-reliance

The war in Ukraine has added urgency to its plans to internationalise the yuan and establish an alternative inter-bank messaging service

The Mankell effect

In my opinion, Mankell is the best of the lot. I am a fan

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Medicinal plants await good marketing

Fortunately, India is endowed with a huge and diversified wealth of plant species having curative traits

Focus on CPI inflation

Exchange rate stabilisation will import high tradeables inflation into India

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Cherry blossoms in aamchi Mumbai?

Not many of us would know that Shillong in Meghalaya, every November, hosts the India International Cherry Blossom Festival

Humans decoded

It's expected that genome-based research will help develop highly effective diagnostic tools and treatments for diseases