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Strategic action against human trafficking long overdue

The annual US Congress-mandated report on human trafficking last week continued to place India in the tier-2 category, which includes countries that have failed to effectively combat the problem. India...

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Self-policing can overcome perils of social media

Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House and the subsequent allegations of Russia rigging the outcome, the role of social media in affecting reality through fake news has been undeniable....

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Climate change: Radical changes in consumption the way forward

Last week Antarctica shed a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf that had been tethered precariously at the edge for years. The chunk of ice is approximately four times the height of Qutab...

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India’s Evolving Household Savings

Indian household savings patterns have been witnessing some massive structural shifts off late. Households in India have historically been quite risk-averse and wary of investing their savings into...

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Market investors need to avoid being driven by animal spirits 

The Indian stock markets seems to be on a steroid-infused dream run. Both the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty-50 and the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex have surged to new record highs almost every day...

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Why Rising Wealth Gap in India Doesn’t Mean Growth is Inequitable

The data released by the Bloomberg Billionaire Index revealed some shocking statistics about the rise of inequality in India. It showed that the top 20 industrialists in India added a staggering $50...

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Time for Modi’s version of New Deal?

The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year low of 6 percent. This came in the backdrop of a steep fall in inflation and weak consumer...

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Shared Value an important lever in Prime Minister’s Vision of New India 2022

On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, The Prime Minister urged the citizens to create a new India by 2022 by freeing the country from poverty, corruption, dirt, terrorism, casteism, and...

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Need of The Hour is to Keep Core of Infosys Intact

Dr. Vishal Sikka’s exit from Infosys seems to have been accentuated by the streak of comments made by co-founder Mr. Narayan Murthy. The comments bordered on complaints, raising issues of corporate...

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India’s social advancement dependent on rise in productivity

The Indian rupee has been on a rising spree this year. Beginning from historical lows back in December-January, when the rupee had almost touched 69 a dollar, it has risen to a two-year high of 63.5 to...

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Not just a boardroom battle: Here are the real reasons behind the Infosys crisis

Infosys is yet again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The poster child of the Indian IT industry just cannot seem to stabilise its ship even after a decade of consistently losing market share...

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The Irrationality of Belief

Self-proclaimed godmen and a coterie of sycophants to back them and validate their claims have always been ubiquitous in India. This phenomenon is not problematic in itself until the sycophancy is...

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Remember the debilitating crisis of 2008? Something scarier is heading your way 

It has been a decade since the biggest financial crisis in living memory swept the globe. In a run up to the crisis, the debt levels of the developed economies saw a rapid expansion. In between 2000...

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India needs to holistically tackle child malnutrition

It is no secret that India has had an appalling record in keeping her children healthy. It is no secret that India has had an appalling record in keeping her children healthy. The country records...

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Scaling up core micronutrient interventions: It’s $12 bn vs $574 mn

Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two people to land on the moon, was quoted saying “If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.” Sadly, even today 248 million children across the globe are...

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Economic Issues Will Have a Decisive Say in 2019 General Elections

It is becoming really hard to be optimistic about the Indian economy. As TN Ninan pointed out last week, it has been six years since our economy breached the seven percent growth rate mark. There have...

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Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off? 

Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off?  The BRICS Summit was largely an uneventful affair this year. Apart from the usual declarations for greater cooperation, hardly anything noteworthy took...

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Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things 

Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things  It is almost a certainty that the Indian economy will receive a fiscal stimulus soon on account of the government’s desperate...

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India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain

India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain In a respite to the Modi government, which has been facing the heat over dismal economic numbers, the World Economic Forum (WEF)...

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India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the...

India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the deep-rooted problem Since the latest growth numbers have come in showing a consistent deceleration in India’s real gross domestic...

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