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Mint Quick Edit | As the rumbles of war reach India, will RBI be pushed into rate hikes this year?

New Delhi, March 25 -- With the war in West Asia stretching on, estimates of its economic damage have begun to emerge. On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs slashed its outlook on India's economic growth to 5.9% ... Read More


India's LPG crunch won't ease anytime soon: We need a full-spectrum policy response

New Delhi, March 24 -- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is one of the products facing a global supply crunch today, thanks to the Iran war. The result is more than a cooking gas shortage in India. In ord... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Relief for markets as Trump extends his Hormuz opening deadline: Will it last?

New Delhi, March 24 -- A silver lining seems to have appeared around the clouds of war over West Asia. Donald Trump put off by five days the US threat of bombing Iran's energy infrastructure just hour... Read More


Dollar vs yuan: Could a battle for the control of Hormuz spark a petro-currency war?

New Delhi, March 23 -- As reports emerged last week on which ships Iran had let through the Strait of Hormuz, India-bound carriers of LPG among them, one group was no surprise: vessels carrying Irania... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Airfare caps: Indian aviation needs more competition and less state intervention

New Delhi, March 23 -- India's civil aviation ministry has withdrawn caps placed on domestic airfares as more expensive fuel amid the West Asia war and a weakening rupee send costs for airlines soarin... Read More


Forget self-driving cars: Think of how else technology could ride to the rescue of urban India's streets

New Delhi, March 20 -- A straw poll might show there exists a field of technology in which we Indians actually find it hard to be optimistic: self-driving vehicles. Satellite-guided traffic is a tech ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | HDFC Bank chair's abrupt exit: Three facts could reassure its stakeholders

New Delhi, March 20 -- After HDFC Bank chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigned in an abrupt move that the board led by his interim replacement Keki Mistry was reportedly baffled by, stakeholder attention ... Read More


The puzzle of IDBI Bank's stalled privatization: Just what exactly is holding this sell-off back?

New Delhi, March 19 -- It is unfortunate that India's government has decided to call off the privatization of IDBI Bank for now, as reports indicate. The disappointment is that this decision was repor... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Seat pricing rules: Is this intervention in India's aviation market justified?

New Delhi, March 19 -- Ideally, the government should restrict its role in any sector to framing the policy under which all players must do business and leave pricing and other strategic decisions to ... Read More


Fertilizer reform: India must seize this moment to replace its subsidy regime with a high-yield policy

New Delhi, March 18 -- On 7 January, Mint made a case for reforming India's highly inefficient regime of fertilizer production, pricing and distribution, and for switching over from product subsidizat... Read More