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Economy
Sum and Substance
What broke Paytm?
The rise and fall of Paytm highlights the precarious balance between ambition and compliance in the country’s financial landscape.
Mitali Mukherjee
SUM AND SUBSTANCE
Why India Inc aligns more visibly with the BJP government and its politics
Business elites believe that embracing majoritarian politics will yield substantial dividends—a misleading as well as myopic assumption.
Mitali Mukherjee
Industry
Fate of Vizag Steel emerges as a flashpoint as elections draw near in Andhra Pradesh
Rhetoric dominates the electoral campaign as parties rush to declare themselves the protectors of the public sector enterprise against privatisation.
Ayesha Minhaz
Economic Perspectives
Thames Water and the collapse of neoliberal privatisation
In the 1980s, the company’s privatisation signified a dramatic turn in economic policy due to neoliberalism.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Sum and Substance
A global rupee may sound nice, but look before you leap
Prime Minister Modi’s global ambitions for the rupee hit a snag as RBI’s revised currency trading rules created a totally avoidable market panic.
Mitali Mukherjee
Electoral Bonds
Electoral bonds: Why it is a giant scam
What the electoral bonds scheme has done is to ensure “ease of doing crony capitalism” and distort the market in a way that amplifies inequality.
Meghnad S
Electoral Bonds
‘There is a lot still unaccounted for’: Jagdeep S. Chhokar
The founder of Association for Democratic Reforms concedes that the disclosure of the electoral bond scheme will not reduce election expenditure.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
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SBI’s reluctance to reveal electoral bond data raises concerns about its independence and reliability
The response from the nation’s largest bank highlights broader worries about governmental pressure and institutional control in the banking sector.
Mitali Mukherjee
Report highlights troubling truths about job scarcity and income inequality in India
Dissecting the Centre’s claims, report by Bahutva Karnataka reveals the harsh reality of skyrocketing self-employment due to a lack of formal jobs.
Frontline News Desk
From sunrise to sunset: India’s IT sector loses shine as jobs dry up
Even as the government pledges billions for tech innovation, IT giants freeze hiring, leaving graduates in the lurch.
Mitali Mukherjee
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