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Sun Pharma's deal to buy Merck-spinoff Organon ticks the right box on acquisition cost if not R&D

New Delhi, April 28 -- Sun Pharma would appear to have got itself a sweet deal when it agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of US-based Organon for $3.7 billion in cash at $14 per share. The US p... Read More


Sun Pharma's deal to buy Merck-spinoff Organon ticks the right box on acquisition cost if not R&D

New Delhi, April 28 -- Sun Pharma would appear to have got itself a sweet deal when it agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of US-based Organon for $3.7 billion in cash at $14 per share. The US p... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | The India-New Zealand trade pact opens up new avenues for trade and investment

New Delhi, April 28 -- The India-New Zealand free trade agreement (FTA) signed on Monday is the latest in a series of bilateral pacts India has struck. Once operationalized, it will allow India zero-d... Read More


India's retail investors have played a heroic role but their resolve is being tested by market volatility

New Delhi, April 27 -- The jagged path of India's stock market attests to how shaky the mood of investors is. Although the Sensex is up 6.6% in April (while the Nifty-50 index rose 7%) after its 12% t... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Will Trump's space shield go the same way as Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative?

New Delhi, April 27 -- Defence profligacy is a prerogative of rich, powerful nations. In 1983, the US embarked on its Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars after a science-fiction film. It... Read More


India's open-code approach faces an AI stress test as new tools like Anthropic's Mythos expose hidden flaws

New Delhi, April 24 -- Over the past decade, India's digital economy has increasingly relied on open-source software to power its core digital infrastructure and governance systems. From banking to go... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Oil above $100 makes the job of India's monetary policymakers hard to envy

New Delhi, April 24 -- Oil has sprung back above $100 per barrel amid sharp volatility that is likely to make the task of policymakers trickier. High oil prices are threatening to let inflationary pre... Read More


Rising sun 2.0: As Japan shrugs off its pacifist shackles, India could make significant gains

New Delhi, April 23 -- Japan has decided to ease restrictions on its sale of weapons to other countries, although this would be limited to the 17 with which it has defence tie-ups. As India is part o... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Will Warsh resist Trump or end the Fed's independence? The world will be watching

New Delhi, April 23 -- US President Donald Trump's nominee for Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh is facing the heat before he even gets to that hot seat. On Tuesday, Senate Banking Committee members ... Read More


The RBI governor's Princeton speech is spot on: India isn't ready yet for full capital account liberalization

New Delhi, April 22 -- A speech by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra at Princeton University on 18 April is noteworthy for setting down in black-and-white some of the basic principl... Read More