Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asked Indian manufacturers why they aren’t investing even ......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintIt’s a tad difficult to take online food aggregator Zomato’s assertion that it plans to crack down......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintScarcely a month after US Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan sparked a major crisis, the Ameri......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintThe government’s draft telecommunications bill, 2022, is meant to be a revamp of decades-old legis......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintI am happy and content to be a citizen of an India where a Radhakrishnan, a Zail Singh, an Abdul K......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintIf King Charles III happens to kill someone, it would be a perfect murder. As long as the crime is......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintIt is often said about the globalized age we live in that an event in any part of the world can po......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintGlobal investors are wondering these days if Beijing has decided to ease a year-long regulatory cr......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintThe digital economy, unexplored for its full potential, has both governments and the private secto......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintIndia has reason to be pleased with the global attention it has received lately, especially at the......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintMohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in a mosque?! One might be surprised,......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintOf late, Indian fixed income markets are witnessing heightened nervousness due to many factors. Re......
opinion 2022-09-26 LivemintYoung Deepti Sharma just won a game for her country with some smart thinking on the cricket field.......
opinion 2022-09-25 LivemintBattered, bruised but not yet bested, Chinese technology giant Huawei has been at the centre of a ......
opinion 2022-09-24 LivemintThat the government has put its draft telecom bill 2022 in the public domain for comments is welco......
opinion 2022-09-24 LivemintIn an increasingly interconnected world, all generations need to come to an understanding of share......
opinion 2022-09-24 LivemintOn 21 September, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to set the clock back to an earlier age......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintIn August 2013, an analyst at the global financial giant Morgan Stanley coined the epithet Fragile......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintMore than the US Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike of yet another 75 basis points, it was Fed cha......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintShots have been fired. Wipro has sacked 300 employees it found guilty of working for its competito......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintAfter showing signs of moderation in July, India’s inflation estimates for August have again moved......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintA recent Supreme Court (SC) decision in the matter of Abhijit Rajan, the erstwhile chairman and ma......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintEmpowerment is assumed to strengthen vulnerable groups’ participation in decision-making. Employme......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintHow much does it cost to build an electric car? As new electric vehicle (EV) makers burn through b......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintSample this: About 870 million people globally are undernourished, while almost 2.5 billion tonnes......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintA parakeet is screeching outside as I write these very words. I can hear it. I suspect its parakee......
opinion 2022-09-23 LivemintAdobe, the maker of Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign and other popular software services, is paying $2......
opinion 2022-09-22 Livemint“In God we trust, all others must bring data. The above statement, by famous American engineer W.E......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintPresident Biden may believe the pandemic is over, but the US economy continues to battle the after......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintWar clouds seem to be gathering over the Taiwan strait. Since at least October 2021, the island na......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintIn the aviary of financial talk, hawks and doves are common, with owls vying for space, while blac......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintRatan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has been nominated as a trustee of the PM Cares Fund, ......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintIndia has an opportunity to come up with an innovative regulatory framework that promotes diverse ......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintUttar Pradesh (UP) is only one of India’s 28 states, but it is home to approximately 230 million p......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintThe threat was always there. A smooth escape from a raging fire is never easy. Since the spring of......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintEarlier this week, President Joe Biden seemed to commit one of his trademark gaffes by saying “The......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintArtificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the latest fields of knowledge and business. But even this ......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintA few figures that emerged recently point to the way India’s linear television story, especially p......
opinion 2022-09-22 LivemintThe country’s meteorological department on Thursday forecasted normal rainfall for India this year......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintThe pandemic has exposed the world’s fragility to force majeure events, and with nations trying to......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintIt was a harrowing 45 hours for over 40 people trapped mid-air in cable cars before the Indian Air......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintThe New York Times had this story about Twitter: More than a decade ago, the platform was in the t......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintThe process of furthering economic and institutional reforms in India is facing some unexpected ch......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintAfter two years of lost growth, India’s economy needs a major structural transformation towards a ......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintIn recent months, a string of carmakers and electric vehicle (EV) battery makers have announced th......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintEconomist Ricardo Hausmann suggests that prosperity arises from economic complexity and economic d......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintIn a time that the morning news is invariably dismaying—a lynching here, something hateful done th......
opinion 2022-04-15 LivemintThe government is gearing up to auction one hundred thousand MHz of spectrum and expecting to rece......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has restricted 90 SpiceJet pilots from operating ......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintTime and again, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed confidence that e......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintThe country’s education system continues to reel from the massive loss of learning that our childr......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintThe Great Resignation, the fabled economic theory of the pandemic that workers in the US were quit......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded many people of the fraught relationship between China an......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintNearly a quarter of the world’s population is facing a looming water crisis, with a very real pros......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintIn “consultspeak, the confounding non-language of us consultants, the word transformation has atta......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintChief economic adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran has said that the burden of high fuel prices will hav......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintSomething big is brewing in India’s coffee market. Not only are new coffee chains coming up and ex......
opinion 2022-04-14 LivemintHow resources are allocated in an economy is key to how well it performs. Last century’s great deb......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintInflation in the rich world right now is at a multi-decade high. Interest rates are rising. Noneth......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintThe pandemic and its uncertainties have given birth to a new language. To make sense of uncharted ......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintAt the core of development economics lies the idea of ‘productive dualism’. The economists who fou......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintElon Musk wants to buy Twitter. Elon Musk wants to influence Twitter. Elon Musk wants to poke Twit......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintThe startup hall of fame is always abuzz, but so increasingly is the hall of infamy. Big flame-out......
opinion 2022-04-13 LivemintAs India resumes its 2+2 dialogue on strategic cooperation with the US, Indo-Pacific security is e......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintAn unprecedented reformist judgement delivered recently by a single-judge bench of the Karnataka h......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintMy first column this year was a data wish list for 2022. The first wish was that we get to see sur......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintOver the past few weeks, I discovered a marked difference in attitudes towards the Ukraine war bet......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintAyn Rand’s fans dreamt of decentralized finance (DeFi) as the ultimate realization of their techno......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintAs the covid pandemic slowly fades into endemic existence, it will do so as a catastrophe that imp......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintLike net-zero emissions, ‘zero covid’ sounds impressive. Just how ambitious China was in its pursu......
opinion 2022-04-12 LivemintNo prime minister in Pakistan has completed a full term in office. Seen through this chequered len......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe 2022 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE), the 37th in an annual ser......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintShifty red lines are a sign of uncertain times. They may eventually yield clarity, but tend to spe......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintJohn Adams, an astute political philosopher and second president of the US, was emphatic: “Remembe......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThings are bad for Muslims in India. It is an odd sentence because a statement about India is usua......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe German Bundesbank has long been the envy of central banks across the world. To understand why,......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintFrom Gucci’s 10,000-sq-ft store on the site of a former pencil factory in SoHo to Hermes’ two-stor......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe Indian startup ecosystem did exceptionally well in 2021. The growing investor confidence in In......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintBody language readers would have had a fun day observing Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shak......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintBetween the scars of the pandemic and the challenges from the Russia-Ukraine war, our economic con......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe government must ensure largescale availability of the latest covid treatments, to guard the po......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe cricketer who once led a team famous for perfecting the craft of reverse swing found himself r......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintLast week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a despondent speech before the United ......
opinion 2022-04-11 LivemintThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has embarked on the long-awaited normalization process of monetary......
opinion 2022-04-09 LivemintEver since the 19th-century theoretician and reactionary Thomas Carlyle labelled economics “the di......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintOf the five Indian states that went to the polls, the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintArecent resolution adopted by the United Nations and proposed by the Organization of Islamic Coope......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintThe outcome of the assembly elections in Punjab last month is a radical departure from the past. T......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintFor more than a quarter century, the US government has been sending an unmistakable message to poo......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintIndia Inc is besotted with its young workforce and tries its best to validate them. India Inc also......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintTraffic exasperation is back to pre-pandemic levels in India, turning thoughts towards places wher......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintEver pay attention to the noses of airplanes? Take any one of the fighter jets—MiG, Rafale, Sukhoi......
opinion 2022-04-08 LivemintThe focus on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintBuzz that FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) was in talks to acquire the century-old spices ......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintThe Ring of Fire is a 40,000-km long horse-shoe shaped geographic rim in the Pacific, notorious fo......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintThe word ‘profiteering’ is a throwback to the Licence Raj, when ‘market competition’ in India was ......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintSpeaking in Dublin in 1790, the Irish politician and judge John Philpot Curran said, “The conditio......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintWith Uttar Pradesh under the Bharatiya Janata Party’s belt, fans of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintIt is widely anticipated that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy stance and reverse......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintIntense discussions on social media about Zomato’s new 10-minute delivery service and recent news ......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintAs Western pressure mounts on New Delhi to condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, external a......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintLast week, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said most parts of north and central India a......
opinion 2022-04-07 LivemintThe ministry of agriculture should wait for the current global mini-crisis in food production to s......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintWe don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitt......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintThe Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament is currently on. And unlike last year’s edition, ......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintOn 24 March 2022, European negotiators announced that they had come to an agreement on the final t......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintInflation worries are rapidly spreading across the world. Price pressures are not the same across ......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintElon Musk, the 50-year-old South Africa-born American entrepreneur best known for Tesla Inc, Space......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintThe government’s focus on digitization over the past few years has enabled enhanced delivery of he......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintIndian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have a new challenge, with the high pass-throug......
opinion 2022-04-06 LivemintAnother sigh of relief in our long battle against covid can be indulged, with the number of fresh ......
opinion 2022-04-06 Livemint‘Urvasi, Urvasi, take it easy Urvasi, vazhkkayil, vellave, (to be successful), take it easy policy......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintThe December board meeting of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) threw up some inte......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintIntrigue tends to hang over Islamabad like smog does over Delhi, though with far less predictabili......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintThe war in Ukraine has drawn pointed attention to the manner in which global politics is conducted......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintThe entire cabinet of Sri Lanka resigned this week, collectively expressing its inability to handl......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintIndia aspires to be third largest economy in the world by the year 2047 and there is a strong push......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintWhen I am trying to understand the macroeconomy, I often find myself resorting to one of my favori......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintJust picture this situation: A senior ratings professional in a credit-rating company is asked to ......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintMerger proposals rarely get such a rousing market reception. On Monday, enthusiasm over the news o......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintWeb3, DeFi, Metaverse—these terms have proliferated our daily lives. Facebook, Inc. even changed i......
opinion 2022-04-05 LivemintThe goods and services tax (GST) regime will turn five in June, which will mark the end of the per......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintDelhi: In a move to protect the bank customers against large value cheque frauds, Punjab National ......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintThis merger between Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) and its progeny, HDFC Bank, has......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintAfter a trade pact with the UAE, India has signed one for mutual market access with Australia. Pri......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintThe notion that history is forever guided by a ‘class struggle’ can be found in the detritus of fa......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintThis year, 2022, is being touted as the year of electric vehicles (EVs) globally. With advancement......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintIs ageing a disease or technology? Growing old, one way or another, is decay over time, but is it ......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintRare coincidences are sometimes overlooked. Last week, in New Delhi, an unusual coincidence occurr......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintThe India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), signed on 2 April, is in many......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintA popular blockchain game called Axie Infinity has suffered what could well be the biggest securit......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintThe elephant in the room seems to have woken up with a start and pushed open a door where it had b......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintTightening monetary policy when growth is slipping and inflation is rising always creates a dilemm......
opinion 2022-04-04 LivemintIndia and Russia are in talks to see how the rupee-ruble trade arrangement can be revived. The san......
opinion 2022-04-02 LivemintElectrification opens up a world of opportunities - it empowers citizens and transforms their qual......
opinion 2022-04-02 LivemintSpend a few moments thinking about the way things move through the air. Because ... well, why not?......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintIt is widely appreciated that we must stay vigilant for very unlikely but dangerous events, such a......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintOver the past few months, I have written a lot about the online metaverse. Along with cryptocurren......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintThe global economy has suffered two negative supply-side shocks, first from covid and then from Ru......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintWhen the date of the Union Budget was moved in 2017 from end-February to 1 February, I praised the......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintThe diplomatic courting of New Delhi has grown intense. India was one of only a handful of countri......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintBack in 2019, before the Lok Sabha polls, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati was being ......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintAs fuel prices soar, the government seems resolved to go full-steam ahead on a shift to cleaner fu......
opinion 2022-04-01 LivemintBloomberg has reported that India is considering a Russian proposal to adopt its home-grown financ......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintEfforts to control autonomous institutions appear embedded in too much proposed legislation. The g......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintWhy do you send your children to school? Why do you want to educate them? I asked. The answer was ......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintIn May 1959, John F. Kennedy gave a major foreign policy speech in which he argued that “no strugg......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintThe use of economic weapons during war has a long history. But the rise of globalization and cross......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintAs it overturned precedent to follow the US and Europe in imposing harsh sanctions to punish Russi......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintIn the recently-concluded climate summit of world leaders, there was a great deal of conversation ......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintThe sudden flurry in diplomatic activity is hard to miss. Gabriele Visentin, the European Union’s ......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintOn 17 March, when Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India resumed news channel ratings af......
opinion 2022-03-31 LivemintThe surprise exit of Singapore-based e-commerce player Shopee from India, less than six months aft......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintUday Kotak has decided to call time on one of his pro bono efforts. He is stepping down as chairma......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintSri Lanka’s finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, brother of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and prime mi......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintIn The Age of Unpeace, Mark Leonard writes: “The connections between people and countries are beco......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintLast week, in a letter to shareholders, Larry Fink, chairman of BlackRock, declared that globaliza......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintColumnists have opined all possible permutations and combinations of assumptions on the Ukraine wa......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintAustralia is set to begin winding back its massive pandemic-era stimulus, even as its central bank......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintAs the Ides of March approached, the world saw Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine and the outbreak......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintThe US budget unveiled this week had an outlay of $5.8 trillion, a big chunk of it marked to build......
opinion 2022-03-30 LivemintWhen rockets, satellites and spacecraft boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before, can eco......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintFor the first time since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, refugees from the island nation ar......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintTalkies, as movie theatres were called before memories of silent cinema faded away, have again gro......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintRussia attacked Ukraine in its quest for national security through what Moscow termed “special mil......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintThe measurement of inflation is a serious business. Ask Sait Erdal Dincer. For much of his term, t......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintIn response to globalization, economic competitiveness among countries has drastically increased. ......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintThe new rules proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week for climate-re......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintRussia and Ukraine play a very important role in the global agricultural system. Together, they ar......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintMoradabad in Uttar Pradesh, famous for brass work, has been making all the wrong noises. It has be......
opinion 2022-03-29 LivemintSri Lanka faces an economic crisis that has already sent a trickle of refugees to India. India has......
opinion 2022-03-28 Livemint39 amendments to the finance bill is a telling statistic The annual budgetary exercise for FY23 ca......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintShould Imran Khan lose his vote of no-confidence this week, he’d be Pakistan’s first prime ministe......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintNow that the political shadow of the three controversial farm laws has been effectively cast aside......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintIn The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, a brief but very insightful treatise on the subject, the 20t......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintWe were reminded this year that ‘the West’ is not ‘White people’. Russia, for instance, is not the......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintAfter two years of deliberations, in December 2021, the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on per......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintTo help Ukraine while avoiding a nuclear confrontation between Nato and Russia, the US and its all......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintI watched two movies last week: The Kashmir Files and ’83. One exposed the flaws in the Indian Con......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintThe day after the US lifted its trade embargo on Burma in 2012, I spoke to an executive at Coca-Co......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintHere’s a quiz question: what’s common to Amanda Seyfried, Jared Leto, Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph G......
opinion 2022-03-28 LivemintBooming global demand, especially on the back of big fiscal spending in advanced economies, has gi......
opinion 2022-03-26 LivemintThe spectre of political control is once again haunting India’s fuel retailers and those who bankr......
opinion 2022-03-26 LivemintKurosawa, best acclaimed for his 1950 film Rashomon, once called a censor’s detection of obscenity......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintThe farmers movement last year succeeded in forcing the government to repeal the three farm laws p......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintThe US rate of inflation had declined annually for three years till the pan-demic year of 2020. It......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintThe banking business in India is going through a rapid transformation phase. As digitalization has......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintSome of the most dramatic shifts in family life are occurring among older Americans. Over the past......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintDuring my fieldwork this February in western Uttar Pradesh (UP), I spent more than two weeks trave......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintLast 7 June, Narendra Modi announced that under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (Prime Mini......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintThe Karnataka high court this week declined to quash rape charges levelled by a wife against her h......
opinion 2022-03-25 LivemintThe Supreme Court’s attempts to resolve the stalled Amrapali housing project, in favour of hapless......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintAmericans are still benefiting from a raft of pandemic relief measures that are contributing to th......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintRussia recently banned Facebook and Instagram, while sparing Meta’s third offering, WhatsApp. Face......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintJust how fast is fast enough for the delivery of a food order? Even a 30-minute target, it would s......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintThis weekend, Writing With Fire may win an Academy Award in the category of documentaries and beco......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintGender-based violence constitutes a serious public health burden that includes injuries, unintende......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintRussia’s invasion one month ago of Ukraine—a flagrant violation of international law that has resu......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintJudging from market price movements on Monday, the US Federal Reserve risks slipping further into ......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintThe e-commerce business gained lot of momentum during the covid pandemic. Two industry reports, Th......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintCrypto technology has evolved manifold since the Bitcoin whitepaper was published in 2008, and tod......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintIndian exports have bounced back smartly. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitt......
opinion 2022-03-24 LivemintAn experience of double-digit inflation about a decade ago led the guardian of our currency, the R......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintFrom being relatively rare and risky bets, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become mainstream i......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintIn order to understand the political and economic repercussions of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, ana......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintThe US has weaponized its financial power in the hope that Russia will withdraw from Ukraine rathe......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintScary headlines about the long-term effects of covid gain traction easily. Recent news reports hav......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintIn her budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman expressed the government’s resolve to la......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintAfter a recent cut in the rate of interest paid on provident fund balances, small savings instrume......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintDisney CEO Bob Chapek recently issued a forthright apology to employees of the company, many of wh......
opinion 2022-03-23 Livemint(Bloomberg Opinion) -- We must assume that a man like Vladimir Putin is capable of anything, even ......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintThe world has been transfixed by Ukraine’s fight for survival. As the war drags on, we’d better st......
opinion 2022-03-23 LivemintThe one thing that India’s largest corporate Reliance Industries Limited is not known for is whims......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintThe government seems ready to expand the ambit of India’s goods and services tax (GST) to cryptocu......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintIt is mid-morning and families throng around the mobile clinic parked in the remote village in nor......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintTwo-and-a-half months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s target of achieving net......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintWar is horrific, no matter how it is waged. Nevertheless, Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, w......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintThe sell-off in the global oil market might bring a sense of relief to Asia’s policymakers: So thi......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintIn August 2020, the Italian government declared that Italy’s domestic firms could and should decla......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintA China Eastern Airline aircraft with 132 people aboard crashed in China’s Guangxi province on Mon......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintYou take a leap of faith based on the back of available data or the conviction that comes from you......
opinion 2022-03-22 LivemintThe US is grinding through its fastest inflation in four decades, and it has set off two sets of r......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintFor the US overall, the big job market story of the past year has been one of high demand for work......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintIn terms of trade and capital flows, reversals of globalization preceded both the world wars we ha......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintIt’s a simple question, but one that is pertinent: Is social integration a precursor to equality, ......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s net-zero pledge for India, announced at CoP-26 in November, shifted......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintPeter Steiner’s famous cartoon in the New Yorker about online anonymity—that on the internet, nobo......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintEven after several rounds of Russia-Ukraine truce negotiations, the war rages on. Russian forces c......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintEven as India makes strides in various fields, all that progress appears not to be raising Indian ......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintDid you know who Labh Singh was, till last week? He rose to prominence after defeating Punjab Chie......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintEvery now and then there are elections, the Indian National Congress fares poorly, and all sorts o......
opinion 2022-03-21 LivemintPizza case reveals the messy GST we made Most Indians laughed at the memes and carried on, but a r......
opinion 2022-03-20 LivemintThe Adani group is reportedly exploring a tie-up with Saudi Aramco and the oil kingdom’s Public In......
opinion 2022-03-20 LivemintPizza case reveals the messy GST we made Most Indians laughed at the memes and carried on, but a r......
opinion 2022-03-19 LivemintThe Adani group is reportedly exploring a tie-up with Saudi Aramco and the oil kingdom’s Public In......
opinion 2022-03-19 LivemintThere’s a popular cartoon by Tom Toro that’s been doing the social media rounds since 2012, in whi......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintImplementation of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture’s recomme......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintThere are two very good things about the Mumbai Climate Action Plan that seeks to bring about net ......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintWith covid cases in India down to their lowest level in about two years, it’s not a surprise to se......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintAn argument clincher for fantasy sports arrived this week in the form of a tax bonanza that this i......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintSomething happened at 7:21pm on the last day of February a few years ago. The thousands of boister......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintLet me try distracting you from war and disease with a joke. Schrödinger takes his cat to the vet ......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintThe budget session of Parliament has resumed. Of the pieces of legislation to be taken up, the Com......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintSince 2016, the Indian economy has been repeatedly battered by severe shocks. First, there was de-......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintIs there a situation more absurd than two of the world’s most dollar-dependent economies promising......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintWatching a baby trying to walk is a beautiful thing. The infant will fall every few steps. A few b......
opinion 2022-03-18 LivemintIn line with other central banks (CBs) globally, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increasingly ......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintThe Federal Reserve of the United States, the American central bank, has decided to start raising ......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintThe London Metals Exchange (LME) has had to suspend trading in its benchmark nickel contract for a......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintThe oil shock that saw its price peak at almost $140 per barrel softened this week, with global cr......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintIn my last three columns, I asked, ‘Why are children not learning what they should in school?’ and......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintRussia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February was the beginning of a third world war that has the po......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintRecently, my friend’s manager asked what would stop her from leaving the organization. “Higher pay......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintIn line with other central banks (CBs) globally, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increasingly ......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintAs the omicron wave ebbs and more and more offices open up, colleges resume offline classes, and r......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintSocial media was the target of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s ire on Wednesday when she said in Par......
opinion 2022-03-17 LivemintIndia’s state-run covid vaccination drive was primarily aimed at pandemic mitigation for public he......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintOne of the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a jump in the price of crude oil. The ......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintSince our notion of ownership came to being in the context of physical objects, we defined it in t......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintIndian students going abroad for education is not a new phenomenon. Enrolling in a foreign univers......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintThese are uncertain times. We’ve never lived with less risk. That may sound crazy coming out of a ......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintIn a nation devoted to powerful goddesses, the average Indian woman still struggles to realize her......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintA disconnect between laws and their principles of application can sometimes venture into the realm......
opinion 2022-03-16 LivemintDying in a foreign land in the middle of a war is now the latest risk faced by the over one millio......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintMint is excited to introduce for its subscribers an exclusive offering that will help them navigat......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintThe collective gaze of Indian economic commentators, seeking to decode the fallout from Russia’s i......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintWhen the Ukraine crisis hit the headlines a few months ago, conventional wisdom suggested that whi......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintOn 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid to be a global pandemic. As t......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintThe initial public offering (IPO) boom this fiscal year has been quite amazing. There have been 18......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintSomething doesn’t quite add up in debt markets. Traders are betting that the US Federal Reserve wi......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is now entering its third week. With each passing day, Moscow’s ap......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintThe government has expanded its 14-month-long covid vaccination programme to let 12-14- year-olds ......
opinion 2022-03-15 LivemintLong before the war in Ukraine, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that international ca......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintThe Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) must manage workers’ savings more efficiently to ......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintIn the early 1990s, at a time America was seen at the zenith of its power, an aide of its top lead......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintThe closing of McDonald’s in Moscow is bad news for the global economy. Whatever the military outc......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintIt is as though our bodies cannot endure astonishment; that is why when a marvellous event occurs,......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintRussia’s invasion of Ukraine is radically redrawing the economic, political and security landscape......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintMany of us have put covid largely out of our minds. But one of the most intriguing and important a......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintRussia’s attack on Ukraine has upset all the well-integrated and familiar geopolitical, geo-econom......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintA dangerous mishap took place last week. An unarmed Indian missile was accidentally fired into Pak......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintThe clamour from the assembly elections in five states hasn’t died down yet, and the next battle’s......
opinion 2022-03-14 LivemintEven in the gloom and doom across the world thanks to the war in Ukraine, there is a ray of hope f......
opinion 2022-03-13 LivemintNEW DELHI : New Delhi: One of India’s pioneers in the now booming digital payments segment, th......
opinion 2022-03-13 LivemintIn February, the retail inflation in the United States stood at 7.9%. This was the highest in more......
opinion 2022-03-13 LivemintIt is difficult to escape the conclusion that the Centre’s decision to not allow the Kerala state ......
opinion 2022-03-12 LivemintAn appointment of a new chief executive officer at Colgate India is usually a non-event. Usually, ......
opinion 2022-03-12 LivemintThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is reportedly considering lowering the reserve pr......
opinion 2022-03-11 Livemint(Bloomberg Opinion) -- We are now in Covid limbo. Cases are down and still falling, yet scientists......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThe re-election of Yogi Adityanath as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and the ‘surprise’ vict......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThe world’s biggest car companies have a lot to fear from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And it is ......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintHave you read Alice in Wonderland? Well, if you haven’t, the fairytale has a golden key which unlo......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThe pandemic woes and economic hardships of the past two years did not translate into anti-incumbe......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintOn 22 February, India’s ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) released its dr......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThe hijab row in India has placed in stark focus divisive politics over a mere piece of clothing. ......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThere was the Big Bang, that cataclysmic moment when our universe was born. Then a few hundred mil......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintWeb 3.0 is the most-hyped technology term in recent times. What would it mean for ‘GovTech’, i.e.,......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintThe education of children was disrupted so badly by the pandemic that it could take years to recov......
opinion 2022-03-11 LivemintOpening a ‘third front’ in the Ukraine war, the British culture, media and sports secretary Nadine......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintThe assessed need for group bonding among members of political parties in India is seen to rise at......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintPolicymakers and India Inc responded with restraint to the emergence of a third wave of covid infe......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintThe Lockdown The Corona Virus is strange, It has a variable range. Dangerous in the way it spreads......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintIt is hard not to be cynical about college admissions. In the latest effort to encourage diversity......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintThe concept of multiple identities might be one of the most under-used human behaviour characteris......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintFor two consecutive quarters, research and analytics firm NielsenIQ has been flagging signs of dem......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintGlobal capability centres (GCCs) in India have come a long way, supported by an enabling environme......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintAdvertising tends to be more effective when aimed at specific consumer segments identified by need......
opinion 2022-03-10 LivemintEconomic relief from the Ukraine crisis would merely be a matter of degree. A realistic look at th......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintStarting in December 2019, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has referred to in......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintIn September 1929, when the US stock market crashed, countries around the world scrambled to put i......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintIndian policymakers have faced a tricky situation over the past few months in maintaining support ......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintUntil Friday, millions of Russians were tuning in to Western media to try and get an alternative v......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintThe expression ‘VUCA’ never seemed more appropriate: the geopolitical situation in Europe is ‘vola......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintThis could be the next big leap for India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). On Tuesday, Reserve ......
opinion 2022-03-09 LivemintCan the rapid emergence of an economy from low-income levels break the hold of a patriarchal socia......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintStudies show that companies with women in leadership roles are more engaged in initiatives around ......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintWhen you land at Mumbai’s airport, you can book a prepaid taxi service. You’ll find a separate cou......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintMillions of women in our hamlets know what unemployment means... Give them access to economic acti......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintWhenever oil prices shoot higher, there’s a debate among economists about whether it will spark fa......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintClimate change is among the most serious challenges facing the world. To tackle its threat, India ......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintExit polls of elections held in five states show voters leaning in different directions, although ......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintHow does the freezing of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves affect that country? Will it cripple R......
opinion 2022-03-08 LivemintOne of Russia’s greatest strategic weaknesses has recently turned into an advantage. Climate chang......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintAs state assembly elections come to a close, all eyes will be on exit polls conducted by different......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintIn the corporate world, they say a good manager does not reprimand a sub- ordinate in front of oth......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintIt has long been obvious that India needs a vibrant market for corporate debt, one that goes beyon......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintNutrition, vaccine efficacy, sleep deprivation, immune system, micronutrients, Global Nutrition Re......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintCutting some Russian banks’ access to Swift, the messaging network at the heart of global movement......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintThe perpetrator has mortally wounded the hostage. What purpose can negotiations serve now for eith......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintEven as the world limps to post-pandemic normalcy, or some semblance thereof, an indication of how......
opinion 2022-03-01 LivemintRussia’s war for Ukraine’s territory is being waged with tanks and artillery, but the battle for t......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintDo sanctions work? If their aim is to effect a regime-change in another country, they seldom do, a......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintData on inflation released by the Indian government’s ministry of statistics has confirmed fears o......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintHow must we read when we do not know much about what we wish to read? How can we find an approxima......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintNow that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we must c......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintKyiv’s residents have watched shells rain down these past days, as they did in 1941, then at the s......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintRussian President Vladimir Putin finally sent troops into Ukraine last week, disregarding entreati......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised the risk of large capital outflows from India that could w......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintWe’re on the brink of something huge. The internet is getting ready for its next upgrade—the Metav......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintBroken bridges, Russian tanks trampling cars full of passengers, buildings destroyed by missile st......
opinion 2022-02-28 LivemintON DEC. 5, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, set sail for Antarctica abo......
opinion 2022-02-27 LivemintChennai Super Kings, the star club in the Indian Premier League of cricket, is not just the spirit......
opinion 2022-02-27 LivemintIndian exporters are reportedly worried about getting paid for their exports to Russia, in the wak......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it, Warren Buffett famously said.......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThere is little doubt that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a result of the West’s policy failur......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThere’s a lot that unites India and Germany. Both are leading democracies and share a passion for ......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThe announcement of the first phase of India’s Green Hydrogen policy last week shows the scale of ......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThe UK has followed Denmark in scrapping most covid curbs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “living ......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintIt’s a war of one man’s making, an unprovoked and unjustified attack on a sovereign country by ano......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThe dinosaurs never saw it coming. Life for them had been good for many million years, then it pre......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintAs the Delhi high court hears petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the clause 2 ex......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintThe tie-up between FMCG major Dabur India Ltd and Indian Oil Corp. to sell the former’s products t......
opinion 2022-02-25 LivemintA peculiar trend in behaviour is being observed among employees who work from their homes. Most of......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintHollywood folklore features a reckless game called ‘chicken’: two cars race headlong towards each ......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintWhen I reached Lviv, the city of many names because of the vagaries of nationalism and realpolitik......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintAs tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine escalate to levels not seen since the Cold Wa......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintThe Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), the ad industry’s self-regulatory body, has iss......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintThe government’s budget announcement that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon issue India’s ......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintLast fortnight, while announcing its earnings for the quarter ending 31 December 2021, Bata India ......
opinion 2022-02-24 LivemintWith green hydrogen, India seems to be putting itself at the forefront of a significant economic p......
opinion 2022-02-23 LivemintThe Ukraine crisis makes me miss Ronald Reagan. More to the point, it makes me better appreciate h......
opinion 2022-02-23 LivemintHow do we decide our next travel destination? How does an investor end up investing in a particula......
opinion 2022-02-23 LivemintPost-infection immunity might be a strange topic for political strife, but it touches on covid vac......
opinion 2022-02-23 LivemintA peculiar trend in behaviour is being observed among employees who work from their homes. Most of......
opinion 2022-02-23 LivemintEven as a political blame-game heats up over the ABG Shipyard case, being touted as India’s bigges......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintBudget 2022-23 unveiled on 1 February carries forward the government’s vision of empowering Indian......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintRising inflation in the US and around the world is forcing investors to assess the likely effects ......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintDecoding India’s tariff and trade policy has become increasingly difficult for trade experts. Conv......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintElectric flying taxis were the toast of the Singapore Airshow last week. AirAsia and a unit of Emb......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintToday, if one wants to see how a college is placed in the pecking order, one can get confused. Sev......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintThe opportunity to expand the risk-return mix across asset classes has made alternative investment......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintThe surprise is not that India’s largest passenger vehicle (PV) maker Maruti Suzuki also happens t......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintMore than a year after Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banned him for comments that were seen to hav......
opinion 2022-02-22 LivemintThe National Family Health Survey-5 shows that fertility in India is declining, with the total fer......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintTwo recent developments made me think of Lethal Autonomous Weapons, ironically abbreviated to LAWs......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintIt is time to recall the words of Marshall McLuhan. “The medium is the message, he said, five word......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintTake a look at these lines: “A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintThe numbers cannot get better, and the intent cannot be stronger: ₹25,938 crore in incentives, 11......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintThere has been a huge shift in the way people date and marry in recent decades. As the stereotype ......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintThe year 2021 witnessed a slew of laws on online betting and gaming being passed across the Indian......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintA lounge to serve customers opened by JPMorgan Chase and Co. is grabbing eyeballs. What’s special ......
opinion 2022-02-18 LivemintAir taxis will soon become a reality. They will change the nature of travel dramatically, taking t......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintTwo regulatory orders over the weekend have yet again exposed the dark underbelly of India’s corpo......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintThis week’s announcement that India’s Vedanta Group has tied up with Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology G......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintThe recently-released fifth round of our National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5) highlights tha......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintIn 1973, the economist E.F. Schumacher published a book with the captivating title Small Is Beauti......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintIn my last column, I asked, ‘Why are children not learning what they should in school?’ It examine......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintFor all the often-hyped claims made for the promise of the digital revolution, its most obvious di......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintLast week, Bob Chapek, chief executive officer (CEO), The Walt Disney Co., said his company was “c......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintThe finance ministry’s Monthly Economic Review for January released on Wednesday strikes an optimi......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintIn a surprise turn, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday made it voluntary......
opinion 2022-02-17 LivemintBizarre! That is the only word to describe the goings-on at India’s premier stock exchange, Nation......
opinion 2022-02-15 LivemintThe National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) made a significant ruling on 27 January that w......
opinion 2022-02-15 LivemintIf Russia invades Ukraine and Ukraine refuses to roll over, Europe would have its first major war ......
opinion 2022-02-15 LivemintInvestors are always advised to look before they leap. For public offers of equity, this means tha......
opinion 2022-02-15 LivemintOn Sunday, the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, the country’s largest life insurance com......
opinion 2022-02-15 LivemintThe appeal of self-reliance in India is almost self-evident, even unique. An outsized artwork of M......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintLast week, financial industry regulators in Europe and the United States alerted banks to tighten ......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintYou may have heard of Wordle, and many people have wondered why. They have explained why the simpl......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintRecently, my attention was drawn to an article by V. Anantha Nageswaran, who is now India’s chief ......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintMarkets this year are putting the risk in ‘risk premium’. Any asset that typically pays more than ......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintThere is a saying that wise men choose their friends carefully and, perhaps, their enemies even mo......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintRahul Bajaj, the late chairman emeritus of Bajaj Auto, will be remembered by the country for his c......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintIndia’s evolution from cost-to-thought leadership through management consulting is a theme I cover......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintUttar Pradesh (UP) goes to vote today in the second phase of assembly elections, held in 55 consti......
opinion 2022-02-14 LivemintWe expect Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hike the reverse repo rate by 20 basis points (bp) in its......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintA few days ago, when the second most famous monk in the world, Thích Nhat Hanh, died, many famous ......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintReservations in India were once again hotly debated in some circles due to the Supreme Court’s rec......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintFor years, Wall Street investors kept their faith in Facebook Inc’s powerful advertising revenue g......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintLast week, many states across India permitted schools to open, after keeping children imprisoned a......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintDespite all the milestones India’s economy has achieved, one weakness sorely being felt is the lac......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintTwo years into the worst pandemic of our times, transitioning into lifestyles defined by mask mand......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintWhile going on the election journey to Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, I decided that I would not t......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintImagine an ancient village that uses sacks of grain as a unit of exchange. A central granary is fo......
opinion 2022-02-07 LivemintRocker Neil Young came across an NPR report on the morning of Jan. 24 that seemed like a fit for h......
opinion 2022-02-06 LivemintThe Union budget has made a big difference for the set of considerations before the Reserve Bank o......
opinion 2022-02-06 LivemintThe Economic Survey 2021-22 discusses the government’s intention to monetize at least 25 more airp......
opinion 2022-02-06 LivemintIn an exemplary display of the kind of debates our Parliament should have but rarely manages to ho......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintI aspire to live in a society where everybody lives cancer-free. A society where children don’t gr......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintWho will watch the Watchmen? asked an Alan Moore classic of a graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gi......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintIn 2013, American journalist Glenn Greenwald travelled to Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source, w......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintThe success of countries is defined by the relative prosperity of its people. India’s current gove......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintThere is a tendency among some to import and implant vague notions and jargon, as if that adds to ......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintThe US Federal Reserve last month put out a report about how the US might update its currency for ......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintNet zero emissions or carbon neutrality has been talk of the town globally. At the onset of CoP-26......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintIn the modern retelling of Web history, we have now fully entered the third generation of the inte......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintInflation in Turkey soared to a 20-year high of 48.7% in January. While inflation risk is a global......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintPierre Fermat was a definite eccentric. He was a practising lawyer in 17th century France. Yet whi......
opinion 2022-02-04 LivemintPolicymaking, like sport, is a glorious game of timing and building on the momentum. It is also ab......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been widely commended for finally riding to the rescue of ......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintThe Union Budget 2022-23 was truly a transformative and visionary document, which laid the bluepri......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintViruses mutate. So it came as little surprise that the fast-spreading omicron variant (known as BA......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintThe fresh peak that central debt issuance could reach under the Union budget for 2022-23, despite ......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintWhy are children not learning what they should in school? A massive proportion of our children do ......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintIn the great epic Mahabharata, the Pandavas decided to sink their roots in Indraprastha by constru......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintSmart economic policymaking invariably requires trading off some pain today for greater future gai......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintMisinformation is like porn—people think they know it when they see it. But I’ve spent more than a......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintOne of the quirks of American English is that “momentarily means in a moment, rather than for a sh......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintHealth, digital health in particular, has been on top of everyone’s minds, as globally, healthcare......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintThe assumption of 11.5% nominal growth in 2022-23 that served as the basis for Tuesday’s budget ma......
opinion 2022-02-03 LivemintFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has done a decent job with Union budget 2022-23. It proposes t......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintBarely a fortnight ago, the most powerful central bank in the world, the nearly 110-year-old US Fe......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintGood job on direct taxes, but a mess on customs duty “I wish to see a day when the FM would rise t......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThis being the 75th year of India’s independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government decide......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintIs it possible to have a lower fiscal deficit, provide for a large fiscal stimulus, be generous wi......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintTo the current government’s credit, its embrace of free-market tools for India’s economy has been ......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech read like a pitch made to a venture capitalist......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintFor years the BBC and its financing model have belonged to that small category of things that make......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThe Union budget is first and foremost an annual financial statement. The primary concern is what ......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintNirmala Sitharaman has to be complimented for two of the main building blocks of her fourth budget......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThe general consensus on the state of the Indian economy can be summarized as follows: The economy......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThe Union budget unveiled by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday leaves no space for am......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintEducation and employment are admittedly the two sectors worst hit by the pandemic, but the governm......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThis Budget will go down as being one of the more pragmatic ones that balances various objectives ......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintThe key focus of Budget 2022 was for the government to undertake pro-economy spending while not lo......
opinion 2022-02-02 LivemintHere’s the good news first. The Economic Survey expects the Indian economy to grow by 8-8.5% in 20......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintAfter a long time, we have an Economic Survey that is true to its name — it surveys developments i......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintOn Tuesday, when our finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget for 2022-23 in ......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintCovid has caused a tectonic shift in all spheres of our lives, economy, businesses, entertainment,......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintThe annual budget ritual in India follows a familiar script. On budget day, influential businessme......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintThe annual Economic Survey is a very important document on the state of the economy issued by an i......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintDespite all the fanfare around Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for a cryptocurrency that was predicted to ......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintSuddenly, the world appears to be on the brink of another major war. Russia has amassed tanks and ......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintIndia’s latest Economic Survey offers a healthy revival picture and projects 8-8.5% growth in the ......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintTo give effect to the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the underlying economic philosophy was of focu......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintThe Economic Survey’s 2022-23 forecast for real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the range o......
opinion 2022-02-01 LivemintAn effective economic advisor in government has to battle it out on two fronts at the same time. H......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintAccording to my spurious taxi-driver journalism, elections in Goa on Valentine’s Day will cause a ......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintThis year began amid widespread despondency about the resurgent covid pandemic and the struggling ......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintIt’s the most wonderful time of the year—and an expensive, annual ritual. Bonus season! The yearly......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintConcerns over the Union government’s recent move to gain the upper hand in the allocation of elite......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintIndia’s Omicron wave is ebbing, having peaked at a week’s rolling average of just under 312,000 da......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintThe year 2021 has seen India witness several startups becoming unicorns and the country will conti......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintThe Karhal assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh (UP) is in news, where Samajwadi Party (SP) president an......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintLast year’s budget exhibited resilience and reflected a progressive vision of a roadmap to a faste......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintPromoting the ease-of-doing business and providing certainty to corporates can ensure that both ob......
opinion 2022-01-31 LivemintIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon ......
opinion 2022-01-30 LivemintAddressing the 120-year-old Merchants Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kolkata, commerce minist......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintLast year, Republic Day was rattled by farmer protests that saw the Red Fort in Delhi get stormed.......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintOn 1 February, India’s finance minister will deliver the fourth budget of the second term of Prime......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintThe third wave of the pandemic may be slowly receding, with declining covid infections, but the im......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintThe Indian pharmaceutical industry has been playing a key role in improving global health through ......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintHere is an alternative view of the current standoff over Ukraine between Russian President Vladimi......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintI was finishing my last consultation of the day when an old patient of mine rang me up for an urge......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintThe Air India sale is historic for more reasons than one. First, it marks the culmination of an ex......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintPythagoras is known for his famous theorem that describes right-angled triangles. You know, the on......
opinion 2022-01-28 LivemintThere is only one way to describe the scheme for the amalgamation of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintA few weeks back, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) got two Canadian pension funds t......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintIt was hoped that the Omicron variant of covid may prove no more than a pin-prick for economic act......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintYoung adults (aged 20-29 years) form the backbone of a dynamic economy and hence government polici......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintRecent comments by Elon Musk on the challenges that Tesla Inc faces in India sparked a wave of exc......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintIndia completes 75 years as an independent nation this August. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintThe Centre’s proposed amendments to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre rules have met w......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintAlmost two months since the first Omicron case was detected in India, we have data showing that it......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintThe curtains are not yet down on the television news channel ratings drama. It’s an ongoing saga i......
opinion 2022-01-27 LivemintWhen American stock indices sneeze, world bourses catch a cold. Quantitative easing, jargon for pr......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintWhen everyone was scrambling for a Covid-19 vaccines last year, public health officials liked to s......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintIn scraping off the last detritus of the British Crown’s dominion over India 72 years ago, We the ......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintIt’s that time of the year when the noise around the central government’s budget reaches its peak.......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintAs tensions heighten between Russia and Ukraine [with Moscow having amassed military forces on the......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintAs every professional will tell you, one of the occupational hazards of attending social engagemen......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintThe Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre and Election Commission (EC) for their r......
opinion 2022-01-26 LivemintThe humble kheera (cucumber) serves to demonstrate India’s untapped potential to become a powerhou......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintFrom 1 April 2022, Indias top 500 listed companies have to separate the roles of the chairperson a......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintSanjiv Mehta, who heads Hindustan Unilever, a consumer products company that serves a vast cross-s......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintIn about a week, the Indian government will have presented its budget for 2022-23, and a week late......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintFor more than a year, an egalitarian narrative dominated the discussion about wages in the US. Low......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintThe Delhi high court is hearing whether the marriage exception to Section 375 (Exception 2) of the......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintThe National Payments Corp. of India is reportedly testing a system, UPI Lite, that will allow pay......
opinion 2022-01-25 LivemintEvery sector has its own version of the three ‘R’s—be it sustainability’s ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recyc......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintEvery now and then, there is a sudden rise in the chatter around ‘inequality’, usually among benef......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintOn 20 January, Joe Biden completed one year of his presidency in the US. This has not been a good ......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintIndia’s Union Budget for 2022-23 will attract a lot of attention from different stakeholders in th......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintThe Omicron variant spreads so rapidly that it sometimes feels as if resistance is futile. It’s di......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintGUWAHATI : On the last day of 2021, 62-year-old Mohan Singh, a resident of Binnakandi in Assam......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintIt was a fine morning in 1982. There were a lot of journalists and political activists in the main......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintFrom smartphones to Tesla Inc. cars, lithium-ion batteries are everywhere. But when Asia’s richest......
opinion 2022-01-24 LivemintThe US Federal Reserve’s much-awaited discussion paper on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) ......
opinion 2022-01-23 LivemintBack in mid-2015, Nandan Nilekani made a presentation in Mumbai and a few other cities, articulati......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintThe covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to the aviation industry. For no fault of the sector......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintMany economists want the Union Budget to nurse the pandemic-ravaged economy, reducing the focus on......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintCelebrate indigenous vaccine success, but strive to do better Raise a toast to India’s vaccine dev......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintIs the pandemic finally looking to burn itself out? While the week’s trailing average of infection......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintA quote that is variously ascribed to Yogi Berra, Neils Bohr and even Mark Twain goes something li......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintBy virtually any metric, the Chinese economy is more than five times the size of the Indian econom......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintWhat should be an ordinary commercial dispute between Amazon and the founders of a near-bankrupt r......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintJohn M. Keynes, while writing his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mon......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintThe Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) industry recorded a phenomenal growth of $63 billion in......
opinion 2022-01-21 LivemintFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a press conference on the Devas case, essentially to brea......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintThe world came to a crucial crossroad in 2008 and failed to take the higher path. Then came the pa......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintIn 2022, the covid pandemic and the myriad crises it spawned may start to recede. Even in a best-c......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintExamining the tea leaves for 2022, one prediction seems quite straightforward: Emerging markets ma......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintMarkets are quite weird right now. The value of risk-free assets has gone all out of whack, and if......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintWe went from one ruin to another. One, magnificent and resonant with the wonder that it once was. ......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintGlobal oil prices have surged to a seven-year high of over $88 a barrel amid rising geopolitical v......
opinion 2022-01-20 LivemintA lawsuit related to the dismissal of a daily-wage worker by Patiala Central Cooperative Bank bein......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintOn 28 June 1941, not long after the United States entered World War II, US President Franklin D. R......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintOn 12 January, Tesla Inc’s chief executive officer Elon Musk, responding to a Twitter query on Tes......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintParatroopers of Russia’s elite Spetsnaz brigade were sent into Kazakhstan to suppress violent nati......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintIndian entrepreneurs seem to be the new toast of the town, with a recent study from Stanford point......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintSometimes, trouble can arise from unexpected quarters and jeopardize the most meticulous of plans.......
opinion 2022-01-19 LivemintIf spring-backs from covid craters in the US and elsewhere (including India) tempted extrapolation......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintIt is a compliment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when I say that he has an impeccable sense of t......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintOver 250 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died, his 10th symphony has been composed. The symphony ......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintJust think of this situation. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and there is an announcement mad......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintEarly on in the pandemic, many of us hoped that India would help vaccinate the world. India’s phar......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintAs the proverb goes, change is the only constant. The field of technology has been evolving at suc......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintUnanimity has never been the strong point of India’s media and entertainment sector, especially, b......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintIn a first, India’s three big software companies reported their quarterly results on the same day:......
opinion 2022-01-13 LivemintJanuary 2022 is one of the worst possible times to get Covid-19. That’s not only because hospitals......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThe board of Vodafone Idea (VI) has approved the issuance of equity to India’s government in lieu ......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintA decade ago, a retired governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) told me that when it comes to ......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintOne of the unfortunate side effects of the current Omicron surge is that it has brought back, out ......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThe importance of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector in India cannot be emphasi......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintIn any given day, you’ll find $19 trillion of payment obligations dotting the busy highway of glob......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThe new wave of covid infections led by the Omicron variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus has once again......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThis year’s edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will see Tata replace Vivo as its title spo......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThe conversion of a share of what Vodafone-Idea owes the government into state-owned equity would ......
opinion 2022-01-12 LivemintThe European Commission has proposed to recognise nuclear energy as a green technology to combat c......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintOf the several books I have read recently, Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill and The WEIRD......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintThe Prime Minister announced India’s Jan Dhan Yojana (JDY) or National Mission for Financial Inclu......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintIn the final months of 2021, India conducted two major missile tests. The first was the Shaurya hy......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintThe world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) battery maker is getting bigger. Whether it can maintain......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) created a new department to supervise and regulate fintech last we......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintA blog published by the International Monetary Fund on Monday has a cautionary note for emerging e......
opinion 2022-01-10 LivemintIn a written reply in Parliament, the finance ministry last month ruled out the setting up of a Fi......
opinion 2022-01-09 LivemintWith the Omicron wave rising, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT),......
opinion 2022-01-09 LivemintI was not as impressed as others by the president’s speech Thursday in the Capitol. I wanted him t......
opinion 2022-01-08 LivemintNearly four years ago, 13 protesters were killed in police firing at the Sterlite Copper Thoothuku......
opinion 2022-01-08 LivemintOne small step for Future Group, a giant leap backward for India’s business credibility: that is t......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintThe covid pandemic has demonstrated how vulnerabilities in the healthcare system can have serious ......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintTalk of the multiplier effect. After more than 6,000 privately-run non-profit organizations across......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintI wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo the Hobbit, in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of T......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintThe repeal of India’s central farm laws is seen so widely as gravely negative for prospects of fur......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintElizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, commanded headlines and magazine covers as an executive wor......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintThe year 2021 was a landmark one for climate change and for those working to mitigate its increasi......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintNot long ago, we learned that India has finally joined the ranks of “developed countries in this p......
opinion 2022-01-07 LivemintThe ‘storm before the calm’ is one characterization of the surge in covid infections brought on by......
opinion 2022-01-06 LivemintOn Wednesday, a division bench of the Delhi high court stayed arbitration proceedings initiated ag......
opinion 2022-01-06 LivemintThe wages of sin is death, says the Bible. There is no canonical clarity on the wages of sacrifici......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThe familiar ghost of a missed asset sell-off target at India’s fiscal banquet threatens to re-app......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintGirls’ education is a powerful tool for bringing peace and security. If girls don’t learn, Afghani......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThe ‘storm before the calm’ is one characterization of the surge in covid infections brought on by......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintOn Wednesday, a division bench of the Delhi high court stayed arbitration proceedings initiated ag......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintCovid cases are surging in India. Still, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his political opponents ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintDespite dips and disruptions from new variants of covid, 2021 turned out to be a relatively positi......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintA serious breach took place on Wednesday when Narendra Modi’s convoy en route to Hussainiwala in P......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintAmit Wadhwa, CEO, Dentsu Creative group, India, who moved into the role in June 2021, oversees all......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThat our new calendar for 2022 has already been smudged by the emergence of a third wave of covid ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintIt looks like 2022 is going to be a busy year for tech policy. Even though I have been predicting ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThe year 2021 witnessed a large number of Indian companies going public, a sizeable number of whic......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintA year after Apple Inc’s supplier Wistron Corp faced an uprising at a factory in India, its larger......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThe National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), released in November, indicates slow improvement in In......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintIn the high-profile legal battle between Amazon and Future Group over the latter’s retail assets, ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintIt’s that time of the year when forecasts of how different investment asset classes are likely to ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintAs the world headed into 2022 grappling with the latest virus variant, China unveiled a sharpened ......
opinion 2022-01-05 LivemintThe TV series Dopesick, a dramatized retelling of how the notorious medicine OxyContin fuelled Ame......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintPaytm Insuretech’s attempt to buy existing general insurer RahejaQBE has run aground, with the Ins......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintOne of the interesting things about the New Year greetings that I received was that several of the......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintAs we celebrate 75 years of India’s independence, there’s a lot to be proud of. My greatest source......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintIn recent years, India has seen the exit of at least half a dozen CEOs of private banks and non-ba......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintIn 2021, the crypto industry witnessed exponential growth as Bitcoin touched all-time highs, from ......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintLast year ended on a positive note for India’s manufacturing sector, with the purchasing managers’......
opinion 2022-01-04 LivemintThe deep low howling continued even as I ran 300 meters into the campus. Only then did I sense tha......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe year has been unlovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to make; harry me not on promises t......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe TV series Dopesick, a dramatized retelling of how the notorious medicine OxyContin fuelled Ame......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe pandemic has already given the future a distinctly dystopian look. And then there’s this: the ......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe year 2021 was unusual in a significant way: Rapid advances in science and technology had an im......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintBack in 2012, when Infosys Ltd snapped up Zurich-based Lodestone Management Consultants for $350 m......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintIn Kerala, there is a pawn-broker every 100 metres. This is not a figurative expression. This is, ......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintAdam McKay’s Netflix comedy Don’t Look Up offered more than a laugh to cap a chaotic year. An Amer......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintOver the past month, hundreds of thousands of developers and IT managers around the planet have be......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThis piece is part of a Mint Debate. Read the counter view here. Indian Parliament recently passed......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThis piece is part of a Mint Debate. Read the counter view here. The passage of the Election Laws ......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe human cost of the covid pandemic has been overwhelming—the loss of lives, income and employmen......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has deferred an earlier proposal to raise the rate on tex......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintEveryone wants 2022 to be a year of unprecedented expectations. I am using the word ‘unprecedented......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintThe fusion of information, operational, collaboration and communication tech has created a modern ......
opinion 2022-01-03 LivemintIn 2021, we struggled to figure out if washing hands with soap was enough or was it necessary to u......
opinion 2022-01-02 LivemintDr Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser (CEA) in the ministry of finance, has warne......
opinion 2022-01-02 LivemintOn New Years Eve, South Koreas Samsung announced a major reorganization of its Indian leadership. ......
opinion 2022-01-02 LivemintTwenty years ago while in the University of Chicago, Raghuram Rajan worked with India’s finance mi......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintEverything has changed, and nothing has changed is a quote attributed to Rev. Joseph Lowery, known......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintA young woman I met the afternoon I started writing this spoke about a competitive examination tha......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintIndian hopes of the covid pandemic slipping into its endemic stage have ebbed with domestic cases ......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintFor all the attention that Web3 is getting, former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey is no fan. He has bee......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintForged by the Elves of Valinor, the Palantir is one of seven indestructible crystal balls used “to......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintCities across the world contribute about 80% of global gross domestic product. They are drivers of......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintThe resignation of Arvind Subramanian in 2018 as chief economic advisor (CEA) was not a surprise. ......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintIt was a warm spring evening in Taipei and over a hundred celebrities, founders, venture capitalis......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintWhen investors put money into a startup, they are essentially buying a portion of that company and......
opinion 2021-12-24 LivemintIf Franz Kafka were alive, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta would have a fan. Mr Mehta recently told......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintThe container shipping industry is in uncharted territory globally, with surging freight rates and......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintAre hydrocarbon pipelines built to threaten democracies, or befriend authoritarians? Judging by th......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintFor the world’s most valuable company, the growth path in India is riddled with challenges. Apple,......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintAccelerated efforts of the global scientific community have facilitated fairly quick measures to c......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintAs curtains begin to descend on the corporate drama around control of Zee Entertainment Enterprise......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintEnough ink has been spilt on today’s semiconductor shortage, some of which has touched upon its se......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintCelebrating the careers of chief executives of Indian origin who run global companies is a nationa......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintOver the years, concerted efforts have been made to determine and resolve non-performing assets (N......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintLast week, South Korean confectionary firm Orion, best-known for Choco-Pie, expanded its portfolio......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintImagine you are building a house. Your architect drafts a plan that you like. She then recommends ......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintThe winter session of Indian Parliament came to an end on Wednesday, a day ahead of its scheduled ......
opinion 2021-12-23 LivemintParliament will be adjourned sine die today. The bill for empowering the government to privatise P......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair pre-Budget consultations with prominent econo......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been highlighting a recovery in consumer demand across the cou......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintLast Thursday, after just over two full years of deliberation, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintThe endgame of the current pandemic is shrouded in considerable uncertainty, and we assume that th......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintTo envision the future of crypto, I keep trying different analytical tools. This time, the concept......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintIn most jurisdictions, national bad banks, set up to help clean the balance sheets of banks, make ......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintBarely about a month since it was discovered, the Omicron variant of covid is spreading rapidly in......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintAs the Omicron variant continues to spread, it seems like we are stuck in a loop of uncertainty. A......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintThe Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) year-long suspension of futures trading in sev......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintIn 2021, innovation was driven by the unprecedented scale of digitalization across every aspect of......
opinion 2021-12-22 LivemintNEW DELHI : India needs to focus on ease of doing business, consistent tax policy and lower cost......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintResponding to stubbornly rising inflation, the US Federal Reserve has pledged to raise interest ra......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintThe much-touted Summit for Democracy hosted by US President Joe Biden has come and gone without ge......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintThe EU’s landmark decision last week to approve insects for human consumption was a victory for gr......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintEconomists have grown increasingly aware that policies succeed or fail not just on their own merit......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintLast week’s decision by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to hold in abeyance its approval......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintDuring the winter session of Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party member Sushil Kumar Modi urged the......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintA seemingly never-ending pandemic has produced many haunting images that will stay with us for a l......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintThe coming decade will be the ‘Decade of Digital’, and 2022 will set the tone for the innovation t......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintA new flashpoint between the ruling and opposition benches emerged on Monday, with the Lok Sabha p......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintThe banking industry has undergone an extensive transformation over the past decade buoyed by the ......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintThe year 2021 was a big year for cryptocurrencies across the world. The total market capitalizatio......
opinion 2021-12-21 LivemintA few weeks after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, marauding crowds in Dresden (part of former East G......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintA year ago analysts thought steelmaker ArcelorMittal would be lucky to make $2 billion of net prof......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintAt the CoP-26 summit that concluded last month, world leaders made yet another effort to reassess ......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintThe ‘never again’ spirit that prevailed after World War II as a liberal world order took shape und......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintThe debate over providing Indian armed forces with special powers to carry out domestic counter-in......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintEvery day thousands of women persuade restaurants to dial down the cooling, and I do not know a la......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintJust a day after a man was killed by a crowd of devotees at the Golden Temple in Amritsar for alle......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintWith assembly polls to five states approaching, dignity and harmony have taken a back seat. Will t......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintWhen 2021 began, there was an air of buoyancy as covid numbers had plummeted to such a low that tr......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintThe uncertainty from mutating coronavirus has not spared national public finances. Since 2020, cou......
opinion 2021-12-20 LivemintThe EU is about to undergo a much-needed review of its fiscal status quo. Experts at the European ......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintEchoing what India recently suggested, a blog published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) h......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintWhen the US Fed started its quantitative easing (QE) plan, it was to make liquidity available at a......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintThe Indian economic recovery has gathered strength in recent months. Annual output will likely cro......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintI began my Wall Street career in the early 1980s, and that’s the last time I recall investors bein......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintThe second wave of covid in India laid bare many issues that plague the country’s system of health......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintThe January to March quarter could be better for employment in India, suggests the ManpowerGroup E......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintThe Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2021, that was passed on Monday b......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintIn its latest monetary policy statement, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained that India wil......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintIn my book Privacy 3.0, I had suggested that we were entering the third age of privacy—a period in......
opinion 2021-12-15 LivemintAyear-long agitation by Indian farmers resulted in the three farm laws enacted last year being rep......
opinion 2021-12-14 LivemintMark Twain’s quip, “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason is an e......
opinion 2021-12-14 LivemintAnother year winds down and we are all another year older. While it may sound cliched to say that ......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintAyear-long agitation by Indian farmers resulted in the three farm laws enacted last year being rep......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintThe last four decades of globalization and technological innovation have been a boon for those wit......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintAfter the hot inflation numbers out of the US last week, it would be inadvisable and unfortunate i......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintMark Twain’s quip, “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason is an e......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintHas the rollback of farm laws endangered economic reforms per se? Even if it was just a tactical r......
opinion 2021-12-13 LivemintMy last article in this publication (bit.ly/331TnYj )presented a dystopian view of how most exciti......
opinion 2021-12-12 LivemintOmicron has already had an impact on India. This week, the foreshadow of this novel variant of the......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintThe argument made in a column titled ‘NFTs are overhyped but useful for a creative economy’ (bit.l......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintMy last article in this publication (bit.ly/331TnYj )presented a dystopian view of how most exciti......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintThe true essence of sustainable development lies in fulfilling present needs without compromising ......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintPublic health officials are beginning to wonder if the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ should be ......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintIf I go out on my terrace at about midnight tonight and look northeast, it’s likely I will see Urs......
opinion 2021-12-09 LivemintWith major central banks around the world ready to call off pandemic-pushed monetary expansions, t......
opinion 2021-12-08 LivemintIndia, India foreign policy, Russia, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Putin India visit......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintCases of covid linked to the newly discovered Omicron variant of the virus have started to be repo......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintWhile there are a number of items on the legislative agenda for this winter session of Parliament,......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintThe covid pandemic has battle-tested the resilience of India’s corporates. Top executives reacted ......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintArtificial intelligence (AI) isn’t always smart. It has amplified outrage on social media and stru......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintFull-page Bollywood celebrity endorsements in Indian newspapers are a common sight. However, you k......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintThe United Arab Emirates has announced it will transition to a 4.5-day workweek and shift to a Sat......
opinion 2021-12-07 LivemintThe past few months have seen many decisive policy actions taken by India’s central government. St......
opinion 2021-12-06 LivemintBusiness leaders are perpetually flooded with calls and emails, and the juggling of calls, meeting......
opinion 2021-12-06 LivemintThe Omicron variant of coronavirus is currently terrorizing the whole world. Preliminary research ......
opinion 2021-12-06 LivemintInternational Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is an initiative by the government of India (GoI) ......
opinion 2021-12-06 LivemintMonetization of railways could be a game changer It could put underutilized railway assets to bett......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintIn a world beset with rapidly-evolving technology, the deliberative process of law making has no c......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintOn 19 November, in a sudden announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintIndia’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is due to meet for three days starting 6 December. Increas......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintNovember began with CoP-26 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) a......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintThe US Federal Reserve’s preoccupation with “transitory inflation was short-lived. On Tuesday, Fed......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintIn the next few weeks, health experts will figure out whether existing covid vaccines are good eno......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintThere is such a thing in mathematics as the Fifteen Theorem. Not the fifteenth theorem out of the ......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintTesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, known for his usually-edgy tweets, has taken a swipe at Parag ......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintNo one can ever know for sure when life will return to normal after a particular event, not least ......
opinion 2021-12-03 LivemintThe newly identified Omicron variant of the covid-causing Sars-Cov-2 virus is a rude shock to many......
opinion 2021-11-30 LivemintThere’s a lot to be learned about the omicron coronavirus variant, but scientists already know eno......
opinion 2021-11-30 LivemintAfter years of stumbles and underperformance, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is finally stepping a......
opinion 2021-11-30 LivemintIn his latest Mann Ki Baat broadcast on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew popular attentio......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintThe newly identified Omicron variant of the covid-causing Sars-Cov-2 virus is a rude shock to many......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintIn January 2022, the Italian parliament, together with regional representatives, will cast secret ......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintChinese President Xi Jinping is amassing power at home at an unprecedented pace, and at the same t......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintAt least we’re learning. Remember when the early reaction to the outbreak of a deadly virus in Chi......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintIf you buy a company’s share, you buy a tiny part of its business. You become an owner. You may ex......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintEven as details are awaited of what legislative action is in store for private cryptocurrencies, t......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintAn alliance of national champions in a sector that must more or less be snuffed out in three decad......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintUntil a few months ago, inflation talk was little more than a murmur: dry data from the statistica......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintIndia is a village. Bitcoin is a hippie city. So, I wonder why India took so long to express its c......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintNo, this article is not about predicting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly election. It is ......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintPolyAI Ltd is an ambitious startup that creates artificial voices to replace call centre operators......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintEarlier this month, the Chinese Communist Party’s top leadership passed a resolution that allows P......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintA newly detected variant of the covid virus named Omicron has set off a global scare, with stock m......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintThe electoral battle in Uttar Pradesh is now taking shape. After the alliance between the Samajwad......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintIn my earlier column, I highlighted why we need India-bred global consulting firms to evolve from ......
opinion 2021-11-29 LivemintInvestors must be wondering what promise New Delhi will break next as the ruling party tries to wi......
opinion 2021-11-26 LivemintBecause of a friend’s health emergency, I was camped at a hotel near the hospital for an extended ......
opinion 2021-11-26 LivemintThe Indian government has listed its Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bi......
opinion 2021-11-26 LivemintThe Indian Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) contains expansive provisions relating to tax deduction ......
opinion 2021-11-26 LivemintBecause of a friend’s health emergency, I was camped at a hotel near the hospital for an extended ......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintBreakups are tough—even amicable ones. But a reassessment usually lays bare the issues that inform......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintThe making of India’s Constitution was a carnival of democracy. Emerging from the shackles of fore......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintIndia’s population boom is over. Headcount stability is assured. For the first time on record, the......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintThe CoP-26 conference that concluded last fortnight was one of the last desperate attempts by huma......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintThe Indian government has listed its Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bi......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintWhen I was younger, so much younger than today, I learned the piano. Western classical music: Moza......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintOver the past fortnight or so, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has on at least ......
opinion 2021-11-25 LivemintGlasgow’s CoP-26 climate summit will go down in history with a unique distinction. The stand taken......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintMore than two years after the faltering Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) was seized ......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintIn journalism, the formula used to make a long and a complicated story more readable is to humaniz......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintIt was once said that when businesses think green, they see red. So vast was the task, so modest t......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintIn 2016, BigBasket became one of the first companies in India to introduce electric vehicles (EVs)......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintPresident Joe Biden, dogged by weakening approval ratings and coming off a hard-fought battle to p......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintThe United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6 aims to “ensure availability and sust......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintAfter Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea got into the act. On Tuesday, Vodafone Idea raised pre-paid mob......
opinion 2021-11-24 LivemintSkoda Auto Volkswagen India’s managing director Gurpratap Boparai recently pointed out how Indian ......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintIn the last decade or more, the topic of inequality has occupied centre-stage in America. In Augus......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintA few years ago, some of the world’s leading economists were asked to make predictions for the nex......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintIn the backdrop of last year’s announcement of agricultural reforms and subsequent farmers’ protes......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintNow that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sacrificed his poorly designed makeover of India’s farms......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintA global supply-chain shock started in China with the advent of the covid pandemic in early 2020. ......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintBENGALURU : Bengaluru-based smart mobility solutions startup Bounce is all set to launch its fir......
opinion 2021-11-22 Livemintoney evolved not from barter, the evidence of anthropology suggests, but from credit—in the sense ......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintThe 16th G-20 Summit was held in Rome on 30-31 October 2021 at a time the covid pandemic was still......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintOnce Prime Minister Narendra Modi could deny Indians their own cash for several days, and not only......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintRussia is a top-rung space power. In terms of technological capabilities, it ranks alongside the U......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintThere are two types of scary borrowers in China. The first kind has good-looking assets but it’s u......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintThis land is your land/ This land is my land/ This land was made for you and me. —Woodie Guthrie D......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintIf the political calculus of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party can be shifted by a mass agitat......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintPrime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a big message on Guru Nanak Jayanti by announcing the repea......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintNow that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sacrificed his poorly designed makeover of India’s farms......
opinion 2021-11-22 LivemintIf you want to land a job as chief executive officer, your chances are vastly improved if you’re a......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintWay back in 1972, a study on ‘The Limits of Growth’ commissioned by The Club of Rome had issued a ......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintAmid declining wages and job opportunities, rising inflation is likely to add to economic distress......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintIn the great study of contrasts that India presents, one of the starkest is our success with highe......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintFor a company that grabbed our attention for rolling out a mega-sized initial public offering, Pay......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintIndia introduced ‘Equalisation Levy 2.0’ (EL 2.0) vide Finance Act 2020, beginning 1 April 2020. T......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintLate one evening last year, an 87-year-old lady I know was out for a walk in the suburb where I li......
opinion 2021-11-19 LivemintAmazon.com Inc. is showing its passive-aggressive side. The e-commerce giant has started a kind of......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintWay back in 1972, a study on ‘The Limits of Growth’ commissioned by The Club of Rome had issued a ......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintTwitter Inc has expanded its paid-subscription service Twitter Blue to the US, allowing subscriber......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintEntrepreneurship is a journey—a hard, lonely one that can drive one crazy at times, but is equally......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintAmid declining wages and job opportunities, rising inflation is likely to add to economic distress......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintIndia’s apex court had sharp words of reproach on Wednesday for how Delhi’s air was being discusse......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintIn a dense jungle, there is a cluster of 21 villages. The nearest small-town is 20km away. Less th......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintOn 8 November, about two months after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) issued a c......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintAt the recently-concluded climate change conference of 190-plus countries in Glasgow, India commit......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintToshiba Corp is self-medicating with a dose of activism. Nice try, but the almost century-and-a-ha......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintMany of us faced several moments of intense stress and uncertainty at the height of the covid cris......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintAs uncertainty hangs over the future of cryptocurrencies in India, crypto exchanges and advertiser......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintOnline fashion marketplace Myntra has been in the news for multiple reasons. Following the resigna......
opinion 2021-11-18 LivemintAs we write this piece, we wonder whether digital transformation is merely a catchphrase confused ......
opinion 2021-11-16 LivemintAmid nerves stretched thin by global forecasts of doom unless we took speedy action to stall clima......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintAt around 11 o’clock last Saturday morning, Aryan Khan, the eldest child of Hindi film superstar S......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintOne of the earliest judgements that looked into whether or not there was such a thing as privacy i......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintBoth anxiety and hope increased in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (CoP......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s firm yet responsible speech at the opening plenary of the CoP-26 cl......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintThe results of by-elections for three parliamentary and 29 Assembly seats in 13 states and a Union......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintFacebook Inc managed to distance itself from the most damning document leak in its history by rena......
opinion 2021-11-03 LivemintIndia’s finance ministry last week issued a framework for staff accountability with common guideli......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintAccess to formal credit continues to be a challenge for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintHave you seen a dinosaur address the UN General Assembly? A rather well-made video message has gon......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintRoad transport contributes about 10% of global emissions, and are rising faster than any other sec......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintAn important supply chain in China stands highly exposed to Evergrande On 15 October, the People’s......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintSeveral companies and brands, such as Tanishq, Fabindia and Dabur, have been in the eye of a ‘stig......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintKey data sets released on Monday suggest an upbeat Indian economy. The manufacturing sector expand......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintTo counter the cryptocurrency craze, central banks around the world are taking a closer, keener lo......
opinion 2021-11-02 LivemintIn setting up a panel to probe the Pegasus spyware scandal, India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday thr......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintAs I sat down to write this article on my laptop computer, I got reminded of a fascinating paper (......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintCoP-26, or the Conference of Parties, will meet in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November. More th......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintThe consumer price index (CPI) for September shows inflation in India at a comfortable 4.35% year-......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintThe world’s air carriers are preparing their cabins for take-off. After 18 months in which planes ......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintStrolling the streets of Tanda or Jalalpur in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on any given evening, you can’t m......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintMore than likely, you’ve heard the number 100 crore (1,000 million, or 1 billion, or 1,000,000,000......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintEven as the spotlight shines on electric vehicles (EV) in India, the country’s largest carmaker re......
opinion 2021-10-29 LivemintFor financial advisers, cryptocurrencies just might be internet 2.0. Many advisers I know who were......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintPardon observers for being more than just a little confused about the application of India’s compa......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintNobody knows the name of the man who walked up to a column of tanks at Tiananmen Square on 5 June ......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintThe lessons from US attempts last year to quickly create manufacturing capacity for N-95 masks and......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintIn December 2019, the Indian government introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which so......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintLow real rates of interest and the rise of so-called superstar firms have been two major features ......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintIt has become fashionable for enterprises to drive a diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) programme, b......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintIndia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the setting up of a committee of experts, whom it named......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintLast weekend, it was extremely heartening to see Mondelez India launch its festive ad campaign wit......
opinion 2021-10-28 LivemintCall me sentimental, but while everyone was lauding Tesla Inc.’s astonishing rise to a more than $......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintThe winning bids for two new cricket team franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL), declared ......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintPlatforms operating in India, from cab-hailing apps to food-delivery companies to market places, c......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintIn April 2020, the South African patent office granted a patent to an artificial intelligence (AI)......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintMy previous article of 19 October, ‘Better ways to help workers than minimum wages’ (bit.ly/3nr0vn......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintAmid all the scandals and controversy, Facebook Inc watchers were on tenterhooks going into the co......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintGlobally, covid has resulted in massive deaths, unimaginable misery, and immense economic hardship......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintOne wonder of last year’s lockdown was how smoke-spewing factories and fuel-guzzling vehicles came......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintThe Olympics continually reinforce the belief that there is no greater sporting spectacle than the......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintStanley Kubrick’s epic 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey incorporated a mélange of f......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintSeveral newspapers have noted that, as per the monthly report of the ministry of statistics and pr......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintCoordinated action by countries is essential to tackle common environmental threats and studies ha......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintIt is known that productivity is the key to economic prosperity. How do we raise the productivity ......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintThe Asian Development Bank and other financial institutions will take an ambitious proposal to end......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintOn 24 August 2017, a 9-judge bench of India’s Supreme Court passed a historic judgement in the Put......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintIndia’s health ministry has sent a high-level team of multidisciplinary experts to Uttar Pradesh t......
opinion 2021-10-26 LivemintWhen someone says, “Let’s talk about it, it usually means, “Let me talk about it. People who hold ......
opinion 2021-10-25 LivemintHere’s a secret: Even Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan is susceptible to the charms of ......
opinion 2021-10-25 LivemintThose were the days when the world was battling two global disasters simultaneously: the Spanish f......
opinion 2021-10-25 LivemintA brand is a rock of stability, a snappy representation of an enduring set of values and promises,......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintChina has been showing off its hypersonic missiles for the past several years. That Chinese scient......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintWhen someone says, “Let’s talk about it, it usually means, “Let me talk about it. People who hold ......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintThe period since March 2020 has been a time of tremendous upheaval in virtually all aspects of our......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintThe first indictment in the Boeing 737 Max crisis should not be the last. A federal grand jury has......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintHere’s a secret: Even Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan is susceptible to the charms of ......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintAfter a decade of its purchase, Mahindra and Mahindra may be about to sell the South Korean sport-......
opinion 2021-10-24 LivemintWe observe 22 October as the Black Day. It would be apposite to revisit that day in 1947 when invad......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintWhat’s to be done, when every webpage you visit is overrun by ads featuring lissome feminine torsos......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintNine months after the roll-out of our covid vaccination programme, we have a notable achievement on......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintThe release of the Global Hunger Report (GHR) earlier this month has reconfirmed the enormity of th......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintThe Rubicon has been crossed. The notion that business needs to mature and start making money to at......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintFacebook Inc plans to change its name to something related to the metaverse, a new digital network ......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintA few years earlier, my mother had presented to me my paternal grandmother Shyam Kumari Khan’s copy......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintEven as palms are being rubbed in anticipation of an India-Pakistan cricket clash at the T20 World ......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintRegulation of crypto assets such as bitcoin and ethereum is a hot topic globally. Countries are in ......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintIndia completed the injection of 1 billion covid vaccine doses on 21 October 2021, in just about 9 ......
opinion 2021-10-22 LivemintIn an apparent retreat barely hours after it terminated the services of a customer-care executive f......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintLet us go back to 1986 and tune in to Yes Prime Minister, the BBC show.Humphrey Appleby: “Then we f......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintArecent report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has brought a new ray of hope to India’s ec......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintIronically, the coal crisis has forced the Indian government to ramp up domestic production and imp......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintThe techno-anarchist pioneers of cryptocurrencies believed they were creating a new form of unregul......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintThere are many reasons to consider social media the ultimate medium for persuasion. Increasing inte......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintGita Gopinath, the first woman chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is set to ......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintLast Friday, Reliance Brands Ltd (RBL), a unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, agreed to buy a 40% stak......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintIt seems like a lot of time has passed since one can remember a shopping experience involving soile......
opinion 2021-10-21 LivemintDiscussions around the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) statement of its monetary policy earlier this ......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintA lot of analysis that has been aired on the sale of Air India to the Tata Group has criticized the......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintNo sooner had the Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission of the Indian government begun to issue di......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintEconomists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provide estimates of the future trajectory of t......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintPrime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy is being heralded as a new leader for Europe in the post-Angel......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintThis year’s Nobel prize for Economics was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens fo......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintHomebuyers in Mumbai aren’t too happy, it seems. According to an internet survey by UK firm Online ......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintEvery IT services leader we engage with is keen to win large deals. For large companies such as Acc......
opinion 2021-10-20 LivemintAt least 25 people have lost their lives in Kerala’s floods that took on alarming proportions over ......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintAn index by the name Global Hunger Index (GHI) released its 2021 edition on Friday. Even as it show......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintAmerica tracks people who quit their jobs. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been doing s......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintClimate change poses the biggest existential threat to humanity. As world leaders prepare to renew ......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintWhen socially included, migrants, refugees and displaced people, in general, contribute actively to......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintChina’s gross domestic product grew 4.9% from a year earlier in the three months to September, acco......
opinion 2021-10-19 LivemintDystopian fiction from South Korea has held millions around the world agog for four odd weeks. Netf......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintThe two most profitable businesses of the 20th century were oil and tobacco. Big Oil created the la......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintSovereign credit ratings has gained in importance with time. The complexity involved in assessing s......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintThe infrastructure sector has emerged as a high policy priority and the launch of the Gati Shakti i......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintA villain is emerging in China’s efforts to rein in its energy prices: inefficient, power-hungry in......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintDespite India being one of the world’s youngest countries in terms of age, our investment in human ......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintIndia appears among the few countries on track to reach their carbon-reduction goals. This has not ......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintNearly 50 years ago, the palaeoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray made a stunning discove......
opinion 2021-10-15 LivemintA sense of anticipation ahead of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfr......
opinion 2021-10-14 LivemintThere are times when hosting a destination birthday party is a bad idea. Yet, Sanjeev Gupta, who he......
opinion 2021-10-14 LivemintEvidence of the devastation that awaits us if we fail to address climate change continues to mount.......
opinion 2021-10-13 LivemintIt’s almost enough to make you nostalgic for the early months of the pandemic. There was clarity of......
opinion 2021-10-13 LivemintA sense of anticipation ahead of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfr......
opinion 2021-10-13 LivemintAttention spans have lately been stretched on everything Bretton Woods. Kristalina Georgieva, manag......
opinion 2021-10-13 LivemintAt a virtual event at the New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of his first novel i......
opinion 2021-10-13 Livemint