By Nikolai Dobberstein Over the last few weeks, the government has embarked on a push to tackle call drops in India. The intention is good, and the programme can even be expanded into a broader...
Call drops: Catch them, since you can
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Enhance our test buds
By Niranjan Nadkarni The growth of an economy is one of the key drivers of the changing food consumption patterns of a country. Growing income levels, palette preferences as well as functionality have given rise...
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Networked economy
By William Kerr Et Al The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through inputoutput and geographic networks can be a powerful driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and...
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Money, not ideas, is shaping Indian startup industry
By Archana Rai In the flurry of deal making–which defines the Indian startup scene at present–two stood out last week. News of SoftBank’s intended largesse directed at online aggregator of budget hotel rooms Oyo and...
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Not even one, visible woman leader at Flipkart
Pankaj Mishra Not a single woman board member. Not even one, visible top women executive leader. And not a single top position filled recently by a woman leader. India’s biggest, most-funded and perhaps the fastest-growing...
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What if… Germany left Euro
By Partha Ray & Biju Paul Abraham Much has been written about the Greek tragedy whose denouement seems imminent. We are informed that the Greeks entered the eurozone based on data whose sanctity was in...
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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana: Mere fund allocations won’t serve purpose
By Sanjeev Chopra Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha was rather scathing in his comments on the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) in his article (‘Feed Water into an Old Plan’, July 4). Sinha has...
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Of ethics & value systems
By Peter Drucker To be able to manage yourself, you finally have to ask, “What are my values?” This is not a question of ethics. With respect to ethics, the rules are the same for...
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Economies & computers
Cesar Hidalgo Processing information is the essence of all economic activities. It is not the privilege of the coder or the writer but what we do when we bake a cake or manufacture a car....
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Parliament logjam: The Congress may end up strengthening the government’s hand
By Pranab Dhal Samanta The arrogance of numbers versus the bitterness of the past makes for an unusual political stalemate in Parliament. Yet, this is what seems to have emerged as the defining element of the...
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IPL spot-fixing trial: No reason for the BCCI to act
By Desh Gaurav Sekhri Although an expected verdict, the outcome of the spot-fixing trial for the players and bookies has led to an about turn on the three once-tainted former Rajasthan Royals players S Sreesanth,...
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IIM Bill: Miles and miles of unnecessary red tape
By Rajul Awasthi From all accounts, the IIMs have done well so far. They have managed to find a place of pride in the top echelons of management education in India as well as around...
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Gurdaspur terror attack was small-scale but it exposed serious chinks in India’s armour
By Manvendra Singh Gurdaspur district features in one of the enduring conspiracy theories in Pakistan, a land afflicted with such talk. Many believe that despite a Muslim majority, Gurdaspur was deliberately denied to Pakistan in...
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What happened to a brave new India promised by PM Narendra Modi & BJP?
By Ajai Sahni 88 persons have already been killed in Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir in 2015, adding to the 193 killed in 2014. There have been at least 71 ceasefire violations...
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APJ Abdul Kalam had an infinite capacity for hope
By Ajoy Bose I was the first one to call the late Abdul Kalam “People’s President” just a few months after he entered the portals of Rashtrapati Bhavan. In a column for the Pioneer newspaper...
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Is Indian services sector ready to serve the world yet?
By R Gopalan & MC Singhi Services have significantly contributed to the structural transformation of the Indian economy. The sector has grown at a faster rate than the GDP growth for the last 12 consecutive...
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Nifty movements don’t indicate India Inc’s health
By Madan Sabnavis The Chinese meltdown has taken along all the stock markets, indicating the power of globalisation. But a more pertinent issue is what do stock indices indicate in general? Do they tell you...
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Capital controls make access to capital in international markets more difficult
By Eugenia Andreasen Et Al This paper shows that financial openness significantly affects corporate and sovereign credit ratings, and the magnitude of this effect depends on the level of development of the domestic financial market....
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Dutee’s case is a larger gender issue, It’s discriminatory
By Shamya Dasgupta In the years to come, we will come to understand the momentousness of the history that was made across in Lausanne late last week. At the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),...
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Net neutrality important for India’s growing entrepreneurship, innovation and invention
By Faisal Farooqui Urban India has been busy this summer petitioning the government for net neutrality. So when on July 16, the department of telecommunications (DoT) released its report on net neutrality, the move was...
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