BUSINESS
Governance wake-up calls from 2025: Essential lessons for a stronger 2026
As India reflects on a year marked by regulatory lapses, environmental crises, and infrastructure failures, 2025's hard lessons demand urgent reforms to build better governance in 2026
BUSINESS
A billion unserved consumers that can help rescue exporters hit by tariffs
Exporters are already adept at producing at scale and with low margins. When sales are under pressure due to tariffs, those skills can be used to tap into domestic consumption
BUSINESS
Growth may be sorted, but jobs remain a challenge
India’s jobs deficit reflects two serious underlying structural issues
BUSINESS
Indigo crisis proves boards can’t protect minority investors — It’s time to rewrite the rules
While the DGCA faces scrutiny over the IndiGo crisis, a more systemic regulatory failure lies elsewhere—in the silent oversight lapses of corporate and market watchdogs
BUSINESS
The rote response to soaring tomato prices underlines the urgent need to reform India’s horticulture markets
The government's knee-jerk reaction to cyclone-driven tomato price spikes masks a systemic failure: a horticulture market where farmers get just 33% of retail prices and boom-bust cycles devastate both producers and consumers
BUSINESS
India's Employment Paradox: Low joblessness, high unemployment registration, and millions of unemployable graduates
India faces a baffling employment contradiction—officially low unemployment rates mask millions of registered jobseekers who lack the skills employers desperately need
BUSINESS
CAG audit reveals what's broken in Delhi's bus services – and how to fix it
A decade-long audit of Delhi Transport Corporation exposes how India's city bus services collapsed from 7,000 buses to half that fleet, accumulated Rs 60,750 crore in losses, and what other metros can learn from this cautionary tale
BUSINESS
Tackling farmer distress requires imaginative long-term solutions
Farm loan waivers have been in vogue for decades, but have done little by way of materially altering the fortunes or sustainability of Indian farming
BUSINESS
The GST Appellate Tribunal should not go the way of other tribunals
The humongous workload is the surest indicator, if one was needed, that India’s newest disputes-resolution tribunal needs to adopt a radically different approach
POLITICS
Indian elections are caught in a populist loop
Inability to drive growth and generate jobs leads to freebies and doles, which leads to rising debt, which in turn constrains productive expenditure
BUSINESS
The PLI scheme’s success in manufacturing should be replicated in employment
While the government has broadly succeeded in its effort to step up India’s manufacturing footprint, it should lose little time in incentivising employment creation which is an equally pressing need of the hour
BUSINESS
For ethanol blending to become popular among consumers, it needs to reflect in lower pump prices
Brazil and the US, the two major markets where ethanol blending happens on a large scale, incentivised the transition in the early years through taxes and subsidies
BUSINESS
Is India’s job crisis purely economic, or is it social as well?
While India's GDP growth remains among the world's strongest, the country faces a dual employment crisis that's as much about social dynamics as economic policy
BUSINESS
India’s cities are reaching for the skies, but collapsing on the ground
When no thought is paid to the environmental and human impact of unchecked development, and the underlying institutional and infrastructural support to sustain this not created, it becomes a recipe for disaster
BUSINESS
Why the government shouldn’t conflate autonomy with stake dilution in public sector banks
The government’s ownership in public sector banks has been a key reason for their crucial role in spreading inclusive growth
BUSINESS
The case for a hike in bank deposit insurance
The current cap of Rs 5 lakh does not provide adequate cover, even for the middle class that will have retiral savings in multiples of this number
BUSINESS
It's time employers put elder care into the HR rulebook
As India's elderly population surges to 149 million with projections to double by 2050, the lack of institutional elder care support is forcing working families into an impossible balancing act between career demands and caregiving responsibilities.
BUSINESS
Critical Minerals Crisis: Why India must pursue both quick wins, longer-term solutions
As Modi prepares for his China visit, the timing underscores a fundamental challenge facing India's clean energy transition: how to achieve mineral security while navigating complex geopolitical dependencies
BUSINESS
Why aren’t US universities embracing India as a campus, post Trump’s visa crackdown?
US universities are staring at a tuition fee loss of $7 billion this year
SPORTS
Will the new sports governance law help make India a sporting giant?
There is a dire need for a strong legal framework to govern the growing but chaotic sporting activity and business. Much of its success depends on implementation
BUSINESS
Old problems continue to dog India’s new energy revolution
India’s already delayed clean‐energy rollout has hit a roadblock. While capacity is getting added on paper, it is not being used fully
BUSINESS
As Trump tariffs unravel apparel and textiles exports, India needs to offer protection
More than tariffs, fragmentation, high finance and logistics cost are challenging the apparel and textiles industry
BUSINESS
The contrasting fortunes of ultra-luxury housing sales in Singapore and India have a message
While sales of ultra-luxury houses are struggling in the rich city-state, India saw a stunning 85 per cent year-on-year rise in the first half of 2025
BUSINESS
What India Inc actually needs to take away from brand value rankings
Today, many American, Chinese, German and Japanese brands are household names around the globe. But how many Indian brands can lay claim to similar global presence or familiarity?
