Computers have made our lives safer and easier, but also more vulnerable to sudden disruptions
Energy efficiency can help reduce emissions, but it will need to be supplemented by additional decarbonisation solutions. The EC Act 2022 has opened the doors to these additional solutions by mandating the consumption of non-fossil sources
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: Investment themes for challenging economy, agriculture sector needs reforms, investors bet on domestic India, pent-up consumption eating savings, and more
Budget 2023 should amend the tax regime to ensure that investors return to trading on domestic virtual digital asset exchanges. That will help widen the tax base and improve the traceability of transactions, which were the key objectives of introducing the tax
Concessional tax regimes have helped lower corporate tax rates and improve their global competitiveness, but the government is right to wonder why they are not investing though
Damian Williams faces big test in prosecuting high-profile case against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried
Events of recent years have posed severe challenges to the global economy. But it has opened up new investment opportunities as well
Since smaller companies are more focused on the Indian market, investors are betting on the domestic India story by investing in small and midcap funds
Rehabilitation has all along been treated as a simple mechanical exercise. The bigger question in Joshimath’s case is whether we can rehabilitate a heritage, memories, trees, waterfalls and more importantly, jobs
The government’s attempt at large-scale reforms of the farm sector had to be abandoned. But, the problems it sought to address remain. It’s time to revive the effort
The sheer novelty of new locations in an offsite and informal approach often help bring new thoughts, new angles to reaching common goals and above all break down walls of communication
One way of judging whether the 2023 budget will be populist is to check whether the budget in 2018 was one
Total annualised premium equivalent increased 30 percent in December 2022, faster than for the life insurance sector
With the CSO predicting much lower consumption growth in the second half, household savings should rise
There’s no law to stop private companies from experimenting with Earth’s atmosphere, but you’d think common sense would be enough
It’s hard to check out when there’s a $900 million tab
US consumption of fossil fuels is heading toward records even amid the electric-car boom
If the US wants to regain a competitive edge over its biggest rival, it needs to get over its kneejerk opposition to free trade
As states are doing the heavy lifting post-pandemic to enhance public investment, we do expect a hike in the capex transfers to the states in the upcoming Union budget
In today’s edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: China could dictate oil prices in 2023, market predictions for 2023 is sombre, India’s steel demand is back on track, Budget 2023 case for lowering tax rates, and more
Budget 2023 will have to manage the difficult exercise of continuing on the path of fiscal consolidation while ensuring that capital expenditures are prudently increased
A way has to be found to resolve the debt problems that are now emerging for the world’s most vulnerable
There is a wide range in which oil prices can move in 2023, and a lot of it has to do with what happens in China
The Budget should opt for uniform rates of import duty and low, enforceable rates of tax on income in the hands of earners and sophisticated mining of data to widen the tax base
Also, the budget needs to address pressing concerns over unemployment, inflation, rising inequalities in income and wealth, growing concentration in industry and distress in the MSME sector