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The Fed's rate hike is both good news and bad for us but the latest US tariff threat is harder to defuse

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The US Federal Reserve's 12-member rate-setting committee voted unanimously to hike its policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point and signalled the likelihood of a similar ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The Tata Sons saga took a stunning turn with Chandrasekaran's term extension

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- In a dramatic twist at the Tata Group, the board of Tata Sons on Thursday voted in favour of another five-year term for N. Chandrasekaran as the group holding company's chairman... Read More


America versus China: headed for mutually assured doom? Not if they shake hands on AI safety

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- May you live in interesting times," the oft-cited 'Chinese blessing or curse,' seems apt for the age of artificial intelligence (AI). America's AI majors want to slow this techn... Read More


We have an El Niño tracker in space but the rainfall reshapers we need to study most are closer home

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Ginger, garlic, onions and sugar had far higher prices in August than in the same month last year, going by inflation data released by India's statistics ministry, while the usu... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The UPI platform must pay for itself, sure, but let's also promote India's digital rupee

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The imposition of a charge on payments to merchants made using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has evoked wide disappointment. As the government has emphasized, sellers mus... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | India's August trade data reveals robust export shipments in spite of rough seas

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- There's further evidence of India's growth defying global headwinds. Government data released on Tuesday showed India's goods exports jumped 26% from a year earlier to $43.8 bil... Read More


Monetary skew: RBI must not let its liquidity moves work against its rate-setting panel's decisions

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) operations to mop up a massive liquidity surplus have inadvertently thrust into the spotlight a basic drawback in the inflation targeting regim... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Retail inflation has been above RBI's target for three months in a row: time to act?

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Inflationary pressures have begun to build up. Government data shows consumer inflation climbed to 4.8% in August, year-on-year. This marked the third-straight month that this g... Read More


Will asset tokenization live up to its promise? Here's what India must do for Demat 2.0 to succeed

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- India has spent the past decade making money move faster. Now it wants to do the same with assets like bonds, gold and property. On 10 September, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Never mind America's reaction: why Brics should become a global rule-shaper

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- The shape of Brics and its pursuits have been evolving over the two decades of its existence as a group of countries. Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has outlined an ambitious ... Read More