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SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic on giga launch pads: why this IPO season is a test of investor intelligence

New Delhi, June 10 -- Investors have been here before. A transformative technology arrives, valuations detach from earnings and markets start pricing the future today. Capital markets financed booms i... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | $100,000 H-1B visa ruling: why a blow for Trump's MAGA agenda is good for America

New Delhi, June 10 -- After his 'reciprocal' tariffs, it's now Donald Trump's fee for H-1B visas that has been struck down by a US court. A federal court ruled on Monday that "the substance and applic... Read More


Balanced diets are a health imperative: India should re-imagine food supply to feed its people better

New Delhi, June 9 -- Findings of the sixth round of India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) conducted in 2023-24 were released recently. On some counts, our progress has been remarkable, thank... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | AI stocks led market slides across America, Asia and Europe: what explains investor unease?

New Delhi, June 9 -- Shares of artificial intelligence (AI)-related companies took a beating globally on Monday as doubts arose over their prospects following a sharp rally that lasted for months. In... Read More


Policy moves have been made to secure India's economy on the external front-will they suffice?

New Delhi, June 8 -- The war in West Asia seems to have had little effect on India's economy, going by the data so far. Official figures released on Friday showed real GDP growth in the last quarter o... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The government should rethink its role in Indian farming as part of its reforms express

New Delhi, June 8 -- China's embrace of market reforms in the late 1970s, as legend has it, began in Xiaogang village, where farmer families struck a secret pact to defy collective farming by splittin... Read More


Fuel, fertilizer and foreign exchange: India needs revolutionary action on all three fronts

New Delhi, June 5 -- Speaking at an event in Mumbai last week, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for a sharper focus on what she described as the three 'Fs'-fuel, fertilizer and foreign excha... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Put America's 12.5% tariff proposal to a legal test: recall the fate of reciprocal tariffs?

New Delhi, June 5 -- The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has proposed a 12.5% tariff on 54 countries, including India, for allegedly lacking mechanisms to stop the import of goods made with ... Read More


Energy calculus: India's new Rs.37,500 crore initiative to turn coal into gas demands careful planning

New Delhi, June 4 -- For an economy that imports 90% of its oil and 50% of its gas to meet 35% of its primary energy needs (28% met by oil and 7% by gas), the Indian government has acted swiftly in th... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | PMI readings for May suggest India's economy hasn't taken too hard a blow so far

New Delhi, June 4 -- After the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for manufacturing climbed to a three-month high of 55.0 in May, India's services sector seems to have outdone that expansion with its PM... Read More