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From 10-minute deliveries to Iran's red lines, goal managers must minimize human costs

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Long before B-schools began to sprout, 'management' referred to a bunch of people in charge of an establishment, not a discipline. The word made its debut in academia only after ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Trump's Greenland game pushes Nato to a moment of reckoning: Could it crack up?

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- The US under President Donald Trump seems unwilling to step back from a plan to take over Greenland. This has put the Nato alliance to a severe test. As talks between Denmark, wh... Read More


As India's passport steadily ascends global power ranking charts, let's do all we can to strengthen it

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- This year's Henley Passport Index is out and India has some reason to cheer. The country's passport now ranks 80th on this annual chart published by Henley & Partners, a London-b... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | China's $1.2 trillion trade surplus makes it clear Beijing isn't slowing its export machine down

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- For all the effort Washington made to cut China's exports to size, it has not altered the Asian manufacturing powerhouse's basic economic orientation, as its latest trade figures... Read More


Powell-Trump clash: Central bank independence matters for economic growth and financial stability

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- The latest spat between US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and US President Donald Trump strikes at the very heart of what central banks hold dear as the key to not just long... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Trump's Iran tariff threat puts more at risk than the White House may have realized

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Even as US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor struck a positive note on bilateral ties, President Donald Trump has again put India in a difficult position by announcing a 25% tariff ... Read More


America's climate retreat should galvanize global action: The cause is vital, not US participation

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- What does the US withdrawal from 66 international organizations, especially the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), mean for the already half-hearted ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | India's Goldilocks economy: A peace dividend of monetary-fiscal policy harmony

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- With food prices falling less, headline inflation has shown a modest uptick in December. Government data released on Monday put India's consumer price index-based year-on-year ra... Read More


Why a market economy remains India's best bet even though the idea has taken a volley of Cold War II blows

New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- It has been 34 years plus since the Cold War triumph of 'capitalism' over 'communism'-or rather, of the free-market idea over the Soviet model of a centrally run economy, to put ... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | What can Iran's street unrest be traced to: US sanctions or its 'oil curse'?

New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- As urban spaces rage with protests, Iran seems in turmoil again. Is America's long squeeze of Iran's economy at work? Or a classic "oil curse"? The stir was set off by an inflati... Read More