Opinion

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines US sanctions on Iran, H1N1 risks, aviation regulation, hard-to-abate sector transition plans and India's software product journey.

A net-zero target without sector transition plans and transition finance is a destination with no map

Like other kinds of seasonal flu, H1N1 flourishes in humid weather

Beijing is the customer of almost 90 per cent of Iran's exports of crude oil and it supplies Tehran much-needed infrastructure support and dual-use technologies

Caps on contracts are only a partial solution for dealing with oligopoly in India's airports

A reimagined skilling system must be built around the changing world of work: What is changing, how fast, and how to responds to rapid changes, and counterintuitive shifts

The focus must shift from the visible spectacle of capacity addition to the invisible architecture of grid management

Durable growth depends not just on expansion but on stronger foundations across telecom, education, energy, skilling and institutions

India needs to strengthen teaching infrastructure

Operators must not leave those looking for basic services

Power needs limits, markets need protection, development needs ecological restraint, capital narratives need scrutiny, and technology needs human oversight

Customs' demand for repayment of RoDTEP credits from DFIA exporters creates a regulatory mismatch that needs retrospective clarification to protect exporters

What makes the Chinese export surge today different from its first, in the 2000s?

For much of the past decade, the Indian investment proposition was almost self-evident

Kaziranga is famed for the one-horned rhinoceros; it has 2,613 of them, accounting for two-thirds of the world's population of this species

Indian households at the net level lost more than ₹2 trillion in the equity derivatives segment of the stock market over the past two years

A consumer commission has held that builders cannot invoke force majeure when their own failure to comply with regulatory requirements contributed to a project's delay

This is a rare phenomenon in the Indian banking industry. What's more, nine banks have half a per cent or more net NPAs

Frontier AI is emerging as a systemic operational and geopolitical risk, underscoring the need for India to build stronger AI evaluation, oversight and resilience frameworks

This is a rare phenomenon in the Indian banking industry. What's more, nine banks have half a per cent or more net NPAs