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Should India lower its age limit for key directorship roles? Don't act in haste

New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- A Parliamentary panel examining India's Companies (Amendment) Bill has recommended reducing the minimum age for appointment as a managing director (MD) or whole-time director (WT... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | How much uncertainty can Tata Sons handle? Stakeholders await stability

New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- N. Chandrasekaran's decision not to seek reappointment as chairman of Tata Sons once his term ends in February led a rout on Wednesday in the market value of this business group'... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The case for alphabet targeting: a credit rating upgrade would aid India's economy

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Policymakers can draw some cold comfort from Fitch's latest commentary accompanying its credit-rating review. While it left India's rating unchanged at BBB minus, Fitch sees resi... Read More


Fend off doom: the world needs a multilateral regulatory framework for artificial intelligence

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The world of technology was shaken when Chinese startup Moonshot recently unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI) model Kimi K3. Astoundingly, it compared well with similar Ame... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Domestic investors seem confident but will it rub off on truant foreign portfolio players?

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Recent support for Indian share prices is often ascribed to retail investor enthusiasm and data shows domestic institutional investors (DIIs) have broadly been big buyers. The n... Read More


Can governments allocate resources better than markets? India's RDI Fund will form a case study

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- A newspaper report has raked up an old split among economists. Can governments allocate an economy's resources better than the market? Since economics is essentially about how to... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | A new triad raises the stakes for India-Pakistan conflicts: here's what we must do

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan have signed a Nato-like security pact wherein an attack against any one would be considered an attack on all. Since Riyadh has borne Tehran's ... Read More


It's time for India's Unified Payments Interface to fund itself-without burdening people at large

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- A day after India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill in Parliament proposing changes to the Payment and Settlement Syste... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Questions of legal liability for insults to national honour demand wide deliberation

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- China's inventive success has been a particular perplexity for those who see freedom of conscience as integral to originality, innovation and its economic yield. Perhaps its 're-e... Read More


Will retail investors bear the brunt of a shift in India's stock market formula for end-of-day price discovery?

New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Stock markets globally have multiple layers of stakeholders, all of them invested in signals transmitted by trading patterns. The constituents directly concerned with price moveme... Read More