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Sell-off slowdown: Did disinvestment lose priority or get held up? The government’s programme to offload equity stakes and other assets has shown paltry progress. It’s unclear why so little emphasis has been placed on this deficit-bridging path. Perhaps the budget will offer a hint.

Indian banks can make 2024-25 a year to remember Here’s how: They should step up digital efforts, expand market coverage, boost green finance and foster talent.

India’s latest tariff cuts chime with its PLI market defiance An import duty cut from 15% to 10% on mobile phone inputs is part of a ‘Make in India’ incentive experiment that defies the primacy of market-led resource allocation. Are all the right bets being placed by the new central planners of...

Health: Band-aids will not heal a system that needs deep attention We need the sector’s basics addressed for substantive progress to be made. Nutrition, primary healthcare and preventive and community health should be focus areas too.

Dear Elon Musk, please keep the internet out of our brains Neuralink's brain insert could launch an era of bio-connectivity, but a layer of friction between the thought of wanting to do something and actually going through with it online is necessary.

The macro challenge is to get our mix of fiscal and monetary policy right India is at an inflection point in its growth-inflation dynamics. A judicious budget deficit will grant RBI more space to make appropriate policy decisions.

Education calls for a long-haul effort to ensure no child gets left behind We are falling short on a key objective, as the latest ASER findings show, even though tech enablers could boost learning in rural India.

How the budget can influence Indian equity markets Growth in equity markets is also about having right ecosystem, and that is something the budget must focus on. The first signal the budget must give is that it will be reform- and growth-oriented

Tata Steel: Riding India's infra wave, facing global commodity downturn The next three fiscal years will be challenging as the company undertakes the restructuring of its UK operations

Budget 2024: Expectations of individual taxpayers As taxpayers there is always a long wish list but for the finance minister, given the limited fiscal room, it is a delicate balancing act to contain the fiscal deficit and yet manage so many expectations.

Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan show India needs to revise its outdated working age norms Bollywood makes the trend more noticeable, but we see the same in government for instance: After retiring from the IAS, bureaucrats take up positions on corporate boards, get appointed by government in...

India needs a fairer and simpler income tax system Tax reforms must fix its current skew in favour of corporate taxpayers and the non-salaried rich.

IMF forecasts: Mark-ups for India According to the IMF's latest outlook, risks hanging over the world economy may be starting to ease. India’s economic growth has been revised upwards, but private investment will need to pick up before we can celebrate.

India's new economic review is just a feel-good document The government has come up with a new pre-budget presentation that acts as a spreader of pre-poll optimism, but its broad sweep offers only a partial view of the economy at best. The idea’s good, but this is a missed opportunity...

A national litigation policy will improve the ease of doing business A refusal to resolve disputes across the table and easily available resources to fund lengthy trials make the government an enthusiastic litigator. We need a policy that places curbs on the Indian state to make it less litigious.

China’s glut and India’s drought show the two faces of liquidity Banks in the two economies face remarkably different challenges. Indian banks face a liquidity crunch but RBI wants fuller monetary policy transmission before it eases its spigot.

Beyond the budget: What happened when nobody was really looking This year marked the return of state capex alongside central. And 2024-25 could mark a gradual pivot from fiscal to monetary easing.

Deepfake menace: We should aim to curb the Liar’s Dividend With the proliferation of deepfakes, a time will come when nothing can be relied upon. But AI-enabled dishonesty has beneficiaries. Wrongdoers, especially, must not benefit from the plausible deniability of video evidence against them.

India need not follow EU regulations on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store A more sensible approach would be to accept App Store and Play Store as natural monopolies in their spheres and regulate the tariff, without compromising the security and integrity of these platforms

Union Budget and navigating the AI path Policies promoting innovation, data and hardware access, national champions, and a supportive regulatory environment are crucial