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The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert

Productivity in British low-paid jobs lags 20 to 30 per cent behind equivalent roles in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States.

Jobs & nature of work: It may be time to rethink basics

India, unlike China, is largely informal and ineffectively regulated for work standards and safeguards.

5 May 2018 12:40 AM IST

Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar (Photo: PTI)

Govt & India Inc: Time to diffuse the red lines'

Mr S. Jaishankar is reported to have said he was happy to join the Tata Group India's most respected brand globally .

28 April 2018 12:12 AM IST

Read it to know the pain and joy of activism

Read it to know the pain and joy of activism

Getting the dispossessed to appreciate that access to information and knowledge is vital, was the easiest part.

22 April 2018 2:15 AM IST

People in many states are complaining of cash crunch at ATMs. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

What the cash crunch foretells

The Reserve Bank, unconvincingly, denies that there is any cash crunch & alleges the inefficiency of banks in properly...

21 April 2018 12:26 AM IST

Big Data is too valuable not to be used by social media and digital search, share, see and sell companies.

In an age of leaks, just lock your data & sell it

Using your data to analyse behaviour trends is also acceptable, if only aggregated, secondary data is made public.

3 April 2018 5:35 AM IST

US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Ugly American' is back: Shun all the failed ideas

Unlike China under the Great Qing, the United States runs a massive trade deficit equal to around three per cent of its...

17 March 2018 12:37 AM IST

Sridevi: A superstar till the end

The suddenness of it all made the reservoirs of goodwill that her fans and the public at large had for Sridevi spill...

1 March 2018 12:05 AM IST

Police personnel outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals residence during an investigation in relation to the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Trouble in Lutyens' land: Babus as political fodder

The legislators allege that the chief secretary (CS) used intemperate language in the shouting match between them.

24 Feb 2018 12:50 AM IST

The e-filing facility for ITR-1, which is to be enabled from April 1, will have an online tax calculator and ITRs can be filed till the stipulated deadline of July 31.

Innovate, outsource to fund, deliver services

The conundrum is that higher growth needs higher public spends of around 6-8 per cent of GDP on infrastructure, health...

13 Feb 2018 12:41 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, on Thursday, tabled the Union Budget 2018 in the Parliament. (Photo: ANI)

FM walks the talk, honestly and judiciously, but very diffidently

ore reassurance comes from the fiscal deficit target for 2018-19 set at 3.3 per cent of GDP.

2 Feb 2018 4:58 AM IST

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Reading the tea leaves as fiscal 2019 looms

The FM is fiscally bound this year, not least because the GST is performing below expectations.

22 Jan 2018 12:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi@Davos: A new kind of challenge

Mr Modi was one of the first to warn the developed world that terrorism was a hydra which strikes rich and poor alike.

13 Jan 2018 12:28 AM IST