How Uber’s deal with Tata Motors could boost India’s EV adoption
The growing EV fleets of ride-hailing companies will lead to the creation of charging networks and other infrastructure required for the mass adoption of EVs
Use a clear compass to navigate our challenges and opportunities
India will soon confront many of the same choppy economic and geopolitical conditions that are affecting the rest of the world
Stay in the fast lane on today’s highway of disruption
The first stretch of the country’s new eight-lane expressway from Delhi to Mumbai was opened earlier this month
The euphoria mustn’t overwhelm the ethical questions on AI
We must discuss its climate impact, plagiarism and biases amid all the amazement over its abilities
Maharajah of Air India must change his stance
The Tata-owned carrier needs a strategic shift as it eyes hundreds of new Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Aviation is not a business of airborne hospitality, but one of cost and time efficiency
RBI shouldn’t play the game of ‘For your eyes only’
RBI’s secrecy over its failure on inflation control last year risks causing an information deficiency and making space for ‘common noise’ in ways that could complicate its own policy.
Is it time for a World Bank president from India?
The insistence on keeping a rich world nominee as its head, instead of allowing a representative of the developing world to take on its leadership, reeks of paternalism.
RBI’s nod to payment aggregators signals start of light-touch regulation
So far, despite the initial pushback from the industry when a ban on pre-paid instruments was announced, it has been a light-touch regulatory approach. That’s the stance that the RBI should stay with if Indian consumers are...
Marriage has a significant link in urban India with women’s work
It alters the participation of women in spheres outside the home by either choice or custom and that’s a loss to our economy
India has no reason at all to help Pakistan in its crisis
Voices asking for us to aid our neighbour that’s short of dollars need a reality check on Indian interests
A world split badly
Munich Security Conference: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s never again warning to Beijing on airspace violation was met by China’s chief diplomat Wang Yi’s flaying of Washington’s expanded use of economic weapons
Let influencers face the limits of their influence
A brazen attack on cricketer Prithvi Shaw and his companion by online influencers revealed a sense of impunity long prevalent on social media, sadly. The law must prevail everywhere
Service platforms should aim to minimize disintermediation risk
Online intermediaries could adopt various strategies to reduce the threat of being cut out of the loop
Nano to Air India: What sets India’s swag apart now
A calm certainty unlike any seen previously is pervasive this time around as people prepare for a boom
If we do not end the Ukraine war, it will be our end
To date, almost 7,000 Ukrainian civilians have died in the war. It has also caused 7.1 million people to leave their nation and another 6.5 million to face exile in their own homeland.
Banning online pharmacies would injure public health and stifle innovation
Offline chemists, acting through bodies such as the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), have been lobbying for a ban on selling medicine online. The government would do well to ignore this.
Why RRR is a watershed in the history of Indian cinema
Indian films are set to scale new heights thanks to their growing technical excellence and instantaneous worldwide distribution via streaming platforms.
Mint Explainer: What came out of the Blinken-Wang Yi meeting?
Far from reducing tensions, the US secretary of state’s meeting with China’s top diplomat underscored the vast chasm that still separates Washington and Beijing