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Will asset tokenization live up to its promise? Here's what India must do for Demat 2.0 to succeed

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- India has spent the past decade making money move faster. Now it wants to do the same with assets like bonds, gold and property. On 10 September, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Never mind America's reaction: why Brics should become a global rule-shaper

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- The shape of Brics and its pursuits have been evolving over the two decades of its existence as a group of countries. Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi has outlined an ambitious ... Read More


The horrific attacks that shook the world: how 9/11 may have impacted how this century is playing out

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- On 11 September 2001, two passenger aircraft deployed as missiles by hijackers struck New York City's iconic twin towers of the World Trade Center 17 minutes apart. It did not t... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | India's gush of mutual fund inflows: retail investors are confident for good reason

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- Latest mutual funds data reveals last month's retail optimism on Indian shares. Equity-oriented schemes drew a net Rs.29,329 crore in August, up about 19% from July, according t... Read More


Brics summit 2026: the group's relevance has clearly grown but can it achieve its potential?

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- In such a fractious world, with two wars raging, one for close to five years and the other for more than six months, it is quite easy to be cynical about the Brics Summit schedu... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The odds seem stacked against Indian IT players: do they have a way out?

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- India's equity market has been weak for a while, but information technology (IT) shares took a particularly hard beating on Wednesday. The IT index of BSE was down about 3% agai... Read More


Futile to resist? Big AI is offering subsidized shields against the threats its own arms race amplified

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Frontier AI companies are racing for defences against Agentic AI misuse, inviting suspicion of a new 'create-a-gap-and-fill-it' business model mis- inspired by Keynes. Within mo... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | West Asia's latest eruption has pushed oil prices close to triple digits: just a blip?

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Tit-for-tat strikes by the US and Iran sent Brent crude oil prices within sniffing distance of the psychologically key $100-a-barrel mark on Tuesday. The Houthis-an Iran-backed Y... Read More


India's GDP data is back in the eye of a storm: here's what to make of this economy tracker

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- The ongoing controversy over India's GDP estimate for the first quarter (Q1) of 2026-27, from April to June, echoes what happened after its base year was reset in 2015 from 2004-... Read More


Trump's latest threat to the US Fed is a stunner: can monetary and trade policy be taken so lightly?

New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- It is one of the biggest ironies of life that two of the most important jobs in the world-that of a parent and of the president of the world's most powerful country-do not call f... Read More