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India's proposed securities market code holds promise but Sebi should be strengthened further

New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- Last week, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Securities Markets Code Bill of 2025 in Parliament, aimed at building a new legislative scaffolding for India's secu... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Uphold India's rural job scheme's core promise: Drop the idea of a 60-day calendar gap

New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- India's economy was under $1 trillion when its rural job-guarantee scheme was launched in 2006. Now it's four times that size. By turning the Indian state into an employer of las... Read More


Nuclear recharge: India's Shanti Bill could revive atomic power but let's not abandon self-reliance efforts

New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- By adopting the Sustainable Harnessing of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (Shanti) Act of 2025, which subsumes and replaces both the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and Civil Lia... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The great AI chatbot contest: Is the winner's dominance inevitable?

New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- It's a reasonable hope that no single platform comes to dominate India's adoption of AI chatbots. Social media saw free services join forces with network effects to place all maj... Read More


India's market for corporate bonds has been a laggard: Heed Niti Aayog's call for reforms

New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- India's capital markets have grown by leaps and bounds since 1991, when economic liberalization began. Be it in terms of participation or infrastructure, they now compare with th... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Can fully foreign-owned insurers help India achieve universal coverage by 2047?

New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Can India's insurance sector help mobilize more long-term capital? How much of a difference will the Centre's proposal of raising its foreign direct investment (FDI) cap to 100% ... Read More


Does the Quad's low priority in Trump's 'America First' security strategy mean all that much for India?

New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- President Donald Trump's vision of how the US should engage the rest of the world, as outlined in America's National Security Strategy 2025, is unapologetically America First. It... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Tight radiation risk controls must accompany India's thrust for 100GW of nuclear power

New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Nearly two decades ago, India's then government had staked its Lok Sabha majority on a deal with the US that would enable a ramp-up of nuclear energy. It won its confidence vote,... Read More


We must stay vigilant on false patent extensions and the non-clinical use of weight-loss drugs

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- It is welcome that the Delhi high court has rejected Novo Nordisk's effort to extend its patent on specific formulations of the blockbuster drug semaglutide, sold as Ozempic to t... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Rajasthan led a post-pandemic boom in domestic tourism: Now let's attract foreign visitors

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- India's central bank recently released the 10th edition of its Handbook of Statistics on Indian States. Among its new additions is state-wise data on domestic tourist visits. Goa... Read More