Opinion

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

While our cities need investment, they also need something harder to build and easier to ignore to become truly livable

From a garage startup to a $3.7 trillion giant, Apple's 50-year journey blends innovation, design, and a tightly integrated ecosystem that reshaped global technology

WTO meet in Cameroon tests global trade unity as India pushes reform with pragmatism amid rising geopolitical tensions and shifting economic priorities

Firms' behaviour suggests that they see a link between rating purchases and index inclusion

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Everybody loves a good war, especially if they are oil-rich. Here's the algebra of the calculus of war for Iran

The IBC was designed to address collective action problems and prevent a race for enforcement that destroys going-concern value

As Indian companies prepare their FY26 annual reports, they should treat the process as more than a compliance exercise

The larger opportunity lies in the rapid expansion of the AVGC ecosystem. India's media & entertainment sector was estimated at around ₹2.5 trn in 2024 and is projected to reach about ₹3 trn by 2027

The latest deal is UpGrad's second offer in two months

From the economic fallout of the West Asia conflict and lessons from modern warfare to the RBI's upcoming policy decision and Kanwal Rekhi's memoir, here are the key views from today's Opinion page.

In inflation-targeting economies such as India, communication is a key instrument of monetary policy

The principal medium-term, geopolitics-related challenge that India will face is the drift of the US towards becoming an isolated and arrogant global power, or, more accurately, a global bully

The star for the Iranian side has been the Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which carries a 25-kg warhead and costs less than $30,000 to make

Last week, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a ₹1 trillion economic stabilisation fund to enable India navigate such global headwinds

Today's Opinion page covers Trump's tariff strategy, the Supreme Court's passive euthanasia ruling, rupee depreciation amid West Asia tensions, farm diversification and a Syria war book review

The Supreme Court's decision allowing passive euthanasia for Harish Rana highlights India's evolving right-to-die framework-while exposing gaps in state systems to implement living wills

After the courts blocked earlier tariffs, the Trump administration turns to Section 301 probes to justify new duties-putting India and other major trading partners under scrutiny

India's farm sector is steadily shifting from cereals to high-value segments like horticulture, livestock, and fisheries - sectors now emerging as key drivers of rural incomes