Opinion

Hope versus experience: Optimism over US-Iran deal should be cautious

The US will not impose new sanctions and lift existing sanctions in accordance with an agreed timetable and release $25 billion of Iran's frozen assets

The rupee's problem runs deeper than West Asia war and oil price surge

While foreign firms have been reluctant to invest in India, Indian firms have been expanding their investment abroad

Focus of manufacturing policy should be on new startups and tech growth

Perhaps the most important development challenge India faces at present is the revival of manufacturing growth and a greater prospect of achieving the 25 per cent target, articulated first in 2012 and

Improving economic inclusion: Access should enable empowerment of women

A larger number of women are participating in economic activities, but the quality of employment remains a concern

A new era of 'free' deposit rates begins with RBI's LCR-based window

The Reserve Bank of India recently opened a window allowing banks differential interest rates on deposits, based on their LCR runoffs

Best of BS Opinion: When access becomes power

From AI access and workforce disruption to economic reform and market opportunities, this edition explores how nations and industries navigate narrowing gateways

Echoes of 1990-91? Energy shock revives concerns over economic stability

Let us hope that 2026-27 will remind us of 1991-92, when economic policy shifted from increased foreign and domestic borrowing to implementing serious policy reforms

The rise and rise of smallcaps: Strong earnings, robust demand

The dominance of India's largest companies too is gradually eroding

The upskilling imperative: TCS' plan on AI agents must spur a new approach

IT majors, including TCS, recently experienced erosion in stock-market valuation mainly due to investor anxiety over AI threats as well as geopolitical factors

AI with borders: US' Anthropic curbs should compel a rethink for India

There has been talk of moving to a decentralised AI development model, where no single government has the powers to revoke access

12 years of NDA: A mixed record in foreign trade, tariffs and FTAs

While services exports have expanded sharply over the past decade, India's share of global merchandise exports has remained largely unchanged despite multiple trade policy reforms

Consumer Protection: Sale or allotment of parking space by builder illegal

Maharashtra State Commission cited Supreme Court's ruling in Nahalchand Laloochand Pvt Ltd vs Panchali Co-operative Housing Society Ltd, where it had clarified that parking spaces could not be sold

Checking digital insurance fraud key to financial inclusion goals

As digital platforms expand coverage across India, cybercriminals are targeting first-time buyers with online scams

Modi's next test is not revisiting history but governing the future

Like any Prime Minister serving such a long tenure, Mr Modi has had his share of crises. Three of them were global: Covid, Ukraine, and the West Asia wars

Best of BS Opinion: Why PM Modi must leave the past behind and look ahead

From China's bid to expand the renminbi's global role to India's data centre boom, Narendra Modi's next challenges and Pope Leo XIV's views on AI, here's the best of BS Opinion

Marjane Satrapi's women: How Embroideries shaped a generation of readers

The process of adapting a Tehran-based play into one in Lucknow made us realise how women's struggles - both the everyday and the revolutionary - are often the same everywhere

AI's promise must not come at the cost of human dignity

Whether you agree with the Pope's interpretation depends in part on your answers to foundational questions about what it means to be human and the nature of consciousness

China's push for renminbi global role reflects world seeking dollar hedges

The weaponisation of financial markets is driving the search for less risky alternatives, and China is stepping into the breach

India's data centre boom will succeed only if it stays sustainably green

Policy aspirations to becoming a big player in AI cannot be fulfilled without the necessary DC capacity

Best of BS Opinion: E85 policy push needs a coherent transport roadmap

From India's biofuel push and FIFA's commercial priorities to pressure on the rupee, shifts in the global arms market and Malayalam cinema's evolution, here are today's key opinion pieces