Laveesh Bhandari

Industry needs to deal with workers differently. Each worker will not just be a cog in the wheel but an active participant taking responsibility for a flexible and malleable production process

What matters, however, is the manufacturing environment India is building

Post-tariffs, a slew of reforms have been proposed by many commentators, and indeed almost all of those would be welcome

Few could have played the role Shankar Acharya did-navigating political, fiscal, and global pressures with clarity and conviction

The retailer in India traditionally provides a low-margin service, frequently provides credit, and may source merchandise for specific needs

Artificial intelligence can help enable real-time decision-making, but its potential depends on how govts adapt

Typically, by the third sequel, authors tend to lose energy, but not A K Bhattacharya. He enjoys reporting the joys and pains of India's finance ministers too much

The challenge is not a small one, for it will affect almost every part of the economy - manufacturing, services, and even agriculture

QCOs should protect against irreversible harm, not shield big firms or suppress imports under the guise of standards, especially as India embraces global integration

It is quite clear that this announcement is only the beginning, and the US will impose tariffs across the board, without discriminating between its friends and not-so-good friends

UNEP has estimated that if current trends and policies continue, warming by the end of the century is likely to be somewhere between 1.9 and 3.1 degrees Celsius

The fear that platforms will replace kiranas is misplaced. India needs a platform-driven economy to fuel growth and innovation

The Khel Ratna and Dronacharya awards could be supplemented with, for example, a Bhishma award for sports administrators

Evidence suggests that both the extent of change and the associated income losses are likely to be higher than expected

While conventional renewable energy (RE) generation is now cheap, storage is not

Debroy was one of the very few economists not bound by any single area of expertise and was simultaneously curious about economics and politics, myths and maths, and what not

India's ambition may seem out of reach, but two and a half decades provide ample time to prepare- if it gets its focus right

The one most important reason on why firms may or may not undertake R&D is not government incentives but the absence of competitive forces

Inefficiencies in the judicial process are stifling growth and investment in India

Inaction on generating new revenue as fossil fuel taxes dry up will harm India's economic prospects