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US-Israel's Iran War blitz: Has China decided to hide its strength and bide its time?

New Delhi, March 6 -- This century's big story was supposed to be the rise of China amid a scramble by the US to secure a second 'American century,' as the 20th was branded. Of late, though, Beijing's... Read More


Not overly generous: Why a PF payout rate of 8.25% is worthy of celebration-and justified

New Delhi, March 4 -- On a day when all newspapers, including business dailies, had little else but war news and its unsettling impact on oil prices, markets, exports, the economy and so on, news repo... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | War reverberations from West Asia: Why RBI may need to heighten its rupee vigil

New Delhi, March 4 -- Today's India is a far cry from 1991's, when we were so dollar-starved that a Gulf war forced a reckoning on economic policy. Our kitty of foreign exchange is large. Yet, hostili... Read More


War in West Asia: The US-Israeli attack on Iran puts more than oil prices on India's radar of risks to track

New Delhi, March 3 -- The American-Israeli attack on Iran raises a number of vital questions for India and the rest of the world, delving into which is necessary to make the best of a bad situation. T... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | PMI data's told-you-so moment: It has been tracking a factory resurgence

New Delhi, March 3 -- India's manufacturing sector is doing better than we thought, as the Union statistics ministry's revised GDP estimates showed last week. The purchasing managers index (PMI) could... Read More


India's reset GDP numbers reveal an impressive growth momentum led by the factory sector

New Delhi, March 2 -- Revised estimates of India's gross domestic product (GDP) released on Friday by the statistics ministry show a slightly smaller output pie than previously estimated, but testify ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Will America's regime-change gamble in Iran come to haunt the global economy?

New Delhi, March 2 -- The US and Israel are betting on regime change in Iran through air attacks that began on Saturday. So far, bombardment has left Iran's top leader Ayatollah Khamenei dead and spar... Read More


NCERT textbook withdrawal: It's ultimately about securing the majesty of law

New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- School textbooks rarely get recalled after their rollout, but it happened this week with a social science book withdrawn by India's National Council of Educational Research and T... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Why replacing America's income tax mop-up with tariff revenues is a flawed fiscal idea

New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address this week was quite predictable. His claim that this was "the golden age of America," for example, was par for the course, ... Read More


Doom scroll: Just how hard will artificial intelligence hit the business models of IT service companies?

New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Big Tech's acceleration of Agentic AI hangs like a sword of Damocles over traditional IT services. Consequently, global tech and Indian IT stocks lurch between optimism and uneas... Read More