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R Gopalakrishnan: Independent directors add value to a company, not only through their explicit knowledge and cognitive skills, but also through their experiential intuition and heuristic skills.
A K Bhattacharya: The 31 per cent rise in GST collection has been significantly fuelled by imports.
The first edit, citing the report of the International Monetary Fund, says the government should demonstrate its resolve to bring down the fiscal deficit. And also find space for growth. The second edit looks at ways to reduce the plastic menace.
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India has been doing very well in 2022 and is expected to grow fairly robustly in 2023.
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