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How your achaar can fight inflation and save the planet from climate pickle
Indian housewives had long ago figured out the vagaries of the Indian agri-supply market – and come up with their own ways to combat both seasonal unavailability and seasonal price fluctuations
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The TINA factor in working for the gig economy
The nomenclature of informal workers can change from informal to gig but what does not is the urgent need to address their concerns
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India’s green hydrogen manufacturing plans are on steroids. Now for the ecosystem
As our headlong rush into embracing new technologies should have taught us by now, it is unwise to place your policy bets before all alternative technologies have had a chance to develop
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Why Rajiv Bajaj is both right and wrong about EV start-ups
Bajaj is right on the issue of proper regulation and lack of adequate quality oversight among many of the new EV players
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Execution issues continue to dog India’s infrastructure ambitions
A flash report prepared by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in October last year said one in five infrastructure projects was delayed by more than five years, and cost overruns had reached a staggering Rs 4.3 lakh crore.
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How about a preventive health plan for India’s MSMEs?
The Telangana Industrial Health Clinic Ltd is an attempt to plug the gap between the needs of MSEs who are turning or have just turned sick, and what the existing system offers by way of support
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We need a better system to supervise governance at systemically important institutions
Be they market infrastructure institutions like stock exchanges, banks or insurance companies, there needs to be more active review of management actions, at least in some spheres.
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What Infosys’s pay hike bonanza tells us about India’s IT services export model
Rising salaries whittle away Indian IT’s cost advantage; Companies will have to focus on automation, innovation and productization
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A flood of illegal GM cotton underscores India’s policy failures on GM crops
Desperate farmers, faced with ever increasing input costs and newly emerging threats to yields from resistant pests, are voting with their feet and simply planting GM crops, illegal or not. This unregulated mixing of GM foods into the agriculture supply chain has unforeseeable consequences of the environment as well as safety of consumers
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For the poor in India, there’s no money in JAM
India’s lenders will have to transform their mindsets and look at people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential customers, rather than social responsibility statistics to be ticked off in an Excel sheet
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India's IT industry: Global success story or domestic missed opportunity?
It is not enough to say Make in India. We must also consume Made in India. This will not only give Indian businesses the potential to take on global competition, but also give the government adequate leverage when pushing some foreign policy imperatives
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Digital cash does not a digital nation make
While the government has been laser focused on the overall Ease of Doing Business rankings, digital business has received only policy attention of the unwelcome kind
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Can you have exports without imports?
One cannot just have an export target and revel in its achievements. One must look at imports too. Given the global interconnectedness of business, the focus should be not just on geographically locating the finished product within one’s boundaries, but to ensure that maximum value addition also takes place within one’s borders
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A taste of colour in the metaverse
There’s a virtual stampede to launch brands in virtual space
