India's panel on banking reforms has an unenviable task: ensuring that our banks are fit for the future

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- The banking industry, both in India and the world at large, has changed dramatically. And continues to do so each passing day. In the words of American baseball coach Yogi Berra,... Read More

Mint Quick Edit | Trump held off a Canada tariff for three days: this is policy instability at its worst

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- With Donald Trump in charge, one never knows which way America would go until the last minute. That unpredictability was on show late Tuesday. Just a few hours before a punitive ... Read More

Does anything justify the sky-high valuations of America's Big AI firms? Here's what might-or not

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Frontier AI companies looking to raise public funds have left lots of investors puzzled. While private funders assign them eye-popping valuations, scepticism has risen over the v... Read More

Mint Quick Edit | India Inc's June quarter results sprang a pleasant surprise: will stocks rise too?

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- For all the worries around the West Asia war and input cost escalation, India Inc's quarterly earnings have defied expectations. Results for the April-June quarter show broad-bas... Read More

Why it's a good thing that RBI's swap facility for overseas-Indian deposits is closing early

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) declared that its special forex swap facility for Foreign Currency Non-Resident (FCNR-B) deposits with banks would close on 31 August, ... Read More

Mint Quick Edit | The US-Iran memo may be irrelevant but the future of this chokepoint is not

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- With mutual strikes continuing and both the US and Iran having declared the unceremonious binning of their June memo on an interim truce, it's effectively inconsequential whether... Read More

Sapta Dhaara: seven streams of high-priority policy attention for India to achieve Viksit Bharat by 2047

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Successive prime ministers of India have used their Independence Day speech to outline the successes of their respective governments and lay out challenges. In the case of Prime... Read More

Mint Quick Edit | How America may be able to test a controversial theory about falling crime rates

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- What factors influence crime rates? US statistics for 2025 show a sharp drop from 2024 in murders and other violent crimes, the sharpest on record since 1936. President Donald Tr... Read More

As citizens of Independent India, we must fulfil our basic duties even as we guard fundamental rights

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Tomorrow is India's 80th Independence Day. In just over a year, it will be four score years to the day India embarked on a momentous journey as an independent nation to fulfil it... Read More

Mint Quick Edit | Lessons from Partition: here's what the country must never forget

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In 2021, India officially designated 14 August as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. As the name indicates, it marks a solemn event in Indian history, even if its nine-syllable l... Read More

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