COVID-19 Pandemic | Why India needs to protect its healthcare workers
India has a moral responsibility to ensure that necessary supplies of Personal Protection Equipment are available to the healthcare workers and all efforts are taken to provide best medical care if they fall ill.
COVID-19 Pandemic | How to keep the production lines uninterrupted
It is essential that the production of essential goods continues because if not, with the current pandemic, we will also have a shortage of essential commodities, even malnutrition.
In a recession, some companies do better -- how can investors identify them?
Slash and burn -- employees, research, marketing and capex -- may seem like a sensible approach to combat a recession. The research shows it may actually be counter productive.
Is the covid-19 epidemic an opportunity for a Universal basic income scheme in India?
Two leading chambers of commerce, FICCI and CII, have in a meeting with the prime minister called for direct benefit transfer to the economically vulnerable
COVID-19 Pandemic | How hard will this virus hit India?
Missing pieces of data make it impossible to predict how the outbreak will unfold in the coming months.
Company insiders have been buying in the crash, should you?
When it looks like the world is falling apart, these level-headed corporate honchos are visualising a better future and putting their money in the business that they best understand – their own.
The destructive power of Covid-19 on the market
But there is a message in the madness
Legal Matters | Democracy in the dock
Our plight is that we have made a mockery of our democracy that such a large number of candidates with criminal backgrounds can compete for our votes effectively.
Chart of the Day | March Flash PMIs show massive contractions in major economies
Composite indices at record lows
Lockdown strategy right step, but needs to be backed by logistical and income support
An allowance to workers – a direct transfer of money into their Jan Dhan Yojana accounts – is the bare minimum the government should already have announced.
COVID-19 pandemic | Are virtual classrooms a window into the future?
Besides technical issues, such as broadband and bandwidth, there are other factors that impact the setting up of virtual classrooms. Some of these factors are social and cultural, peculiar to India, over and above the economic factors.
Run a corporate state, aided by voluntary sector, to beat coronavirus
The corporate sector itself has to perform the critical task of identifying production facilities across the country to boost the supply of innumerable items ranging from face masks to ventilators
The big market crash | Navigating the fall
As the world stabilises and uncertainty reduces, a lot of the liquidity that’s already been created won’t be needed and will find its way back into investments
COVID-19 pandemic | Why Kerala’s Rs 20,000 crore relief package is not financial wizardry
With its third consecutive state-wide crisis, Kerala is at its wits end. There is a limit to what the state can do, and we will be in a serious crisis if the Centre does not help, writes Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac.
Politics | Back as CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has his task cut out
Unlike the faction-ridden Congress, where stability was always an issue, the new BJP government in Madhya Pradesh would predictably be stable. The first hurdle would be the by-elections to 25 assembly seats.
Legal Matters | Judiciary needs a self-quarantine from political trappings
We must acknowledge that judges too are human as the rest of us. The system must not rely on their higher virtues but be immune to their human frailness
The correlation between central bank asset expansion and stock markets breaks down
The crash has proved that the assumption that central bank liquidity would always prop up markets, come what may, was wrong
Chart of the Day | A stimulus delayed is relief denied
Global central banks and governments are rolling out measures to protect their country's economy and markets from the coronavirus pandemic's adverse effects. Investors will be wondering when India will show its hand
Covid-19 pandemic | India has little to fear about its food security
The most serious threat to availability of foodstuff in India could come not from any shortage, but from an overzealous bureaucracy….There is an urgent need for the Centre to issue clear directions to the states that they should not impose any border restrictions on movement.
Quick economic stimulus need of the hour
The NDA government needs to push through prudent policy measures fast
Politics | Future tense for Congress and rebels
The Congress will have to become proactive to stop further desertions from the party, boost the morale of its cadre in Madhya Pradesh, and ensure it makes gains in the bypolls.
Could Modern Monetary Theory rescue us from the Covid-19 economic crisis?
The crisis has led to the usual discussion on whether one should use monetary policy or fiscal policy to ease it.
Comprehensive policy response is needed to ease the economic fallout of COVID-19 outbreak
Under a worst case scenario, GDP growth in FY21 could fall to 3.5 percent
Covid-19 pandemic | China’s propaganda machinery is in full swing
The pandemic is seen as offering an opportunity for China to push Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rhetoric of a “community of common destiny” — part of the narrative of the Belt and Road Initiative — as a way of framing China’s help to the outside world.
