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Mint Quick Edit | WPI revision: why India can expect to keep better track of wholesale prices

New Delhi, June 17 -- A shortfall in rainfall so far this monsoon threatens to push up already-hot prices in India. Inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI) rose to 9.7% in May. This readin... Read More


AI in the grip of state control? How India should respond to US curbs on access to frontier models

New Delhi, June 16 -- Four years ago, US semiconductor export controls sought to deny rivals such as China the means to build advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Last week's curbs placed b... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Iran-US truce: a little bit of mutual empathy could let both sides claim victory

New Delhi, June 16 -- After numerous false dawns, the US and Iran have both declared that they've reached a framework agreement to end their war. Both have affirmed news of a document to be signed on ... Read More


India's stock market needs value investors gaining force to help overcome an asset inflation bias

New Delhi, June 15 -- India's favoured 'R' word, resilience, has been written all over the country's retail embrace of equity investment. Data published last week by the Association of Mutual Funds in... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Can ethanol-run vehicles cushion India from oil shocks? Not without dedication

New Delhi, June 15 -- India's government seems to be going full throttle on the use of ethanol in vehicles. On Saturday, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said he had approved regulat... Read More


We need to talk about age gates-and yes, India's children do need adult intervention online

New Delhi, June 12 -- It is a question that has dogged the nation's collective conscience for years: should India restrict social-media access to protect children? As a global push gathers pace for re... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Why Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney should watch the football final together

New Delhi, June 12 -- Just as the Fifa World Cup hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada kicks off, US President Donald Trump has said he may not renew a trade pact between the three that he'd sponsored i... Read More


SIPRI's latest nuclear update should nudge India to spell out its position on nukes loud and clear

New Delhi, June 11 -- "The Buddha has smiled" was the success code for India's Pokhran nuclear test of 1974 that New Delhi described as "peaceful." Blasts in 1998 saw the country adopt an eminently se... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Bite the bullet: India's fisc can't afford an outsized fertilizer subsidy bill

New Delhi, June 11 -- With war disruption of energy supplies showing no sign of ending, India faces a big overshoot in its subsidy bill on fertilizers to Rs.3.4 trillion in 2026-27, as reported. That... Read More


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