In the mad rush to ‘go digital’, the needs of millions of India’s poor and rural students are overlooked. They are being deprived of their fundamental right to education
Liquidity measures have had their day. They haven’t helped lower-rated companies
Where there is political leadership, the bureaucracy has a fighting chance of beating the virus. Where the leaders are invisible, the battle is nearly in danger of being lost
Net financial assets of households did increase. But that’s because the decline in household borrowings was sharper than that in bank deposits.
Godrej Consumer will have an owner-manager at the helm after a long hiatus
The markets were looking for confirmation whether their belief in a V-shaped recovery for the US economy would be echoed by the Fed. Powell's Freudian slip says it all.
The time has come to replace the weighted average call money rate with the general collateral overnight repo rate as the operating target of monetary policy
Standard & Poor’s sees consumption driving the recovery
The exchange of information and best practices, as well as the provision of liquidity are the most crucial elements of startup support during this time
Though incursions have been a part of India-China border management, in recent times they have become more aggressive
Transmission has accelerated but there are still a lot of inhibiting factors
With huge reverse migration, the support structures and relevant programmes may be specifically designed so that the rural landscape generates hundreds of micro and small enterprises
The incremental demand that is expected in the oil market is likely to be met by increased production
The Delhi government needs to get its act together and ensure that patients are not denied hospitalisation and care at a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in the national capital
While restructuring can do some good a more lasting solution would be something along the lines of the aborted ThyssenKrupp transaction
The only way forward is to shred the red tape that is binding our entrepreneurs and labour down. This is the bus that Indian manufacturers missed in 1991
Although a moderate recovery is forecast for 2021, output is not expected to return to its previously expected levels
Peak demand is just about 12 percent lower than last year compared to as much as 35 percent in the early stages of the lockdown
China’s aggression in 1962, leading to war, is only notionally over; it continues by other means, most notably repeated incursions across the Line of Actual Control
The fact that the market took the share price to Rs 331 in two days as compared to the indicative price of Rs 285 announced by the company is a sign of what the public shareholders think of the offer
The economic impact of the fall in remittances from Indian abroad as well as migrant workers in India will be substantial for some states
Fora such as G7 and RCEP offer the opportunity to the government to take part in discussions on issues that are key to India
The highest priority for any investor is to trust that the referee will not change the rules of the game midway, at least not without warning
Jio Platforms is a tale of the triumph of chutzpah. When the rest of the world has been cowering, frantic about survival, Jio has put together one of the largest technology funding deals in history
Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat will see a second round of the Amit Shah vs Ahmed Patel bout. BJP has the upper hand in MP, in Rajasthan it is the Congress
