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In tandem, the Union Budget allocated ₹1 trillion to the Urban Challenge Fund, aimed at catalysing fund flows to urban local bodies (ULBs) over the next five years

To facilitate retail participation in G-Secs, RBI came out in November 2021 with a scheme for direct retail participation in G-Secs through its own depository system and the NDS-OM trading platform

Cost had earlier been a barrier. In the private market, vaccines such as Gardasil, manufactured by Merck, cost ₹3,000-4,000 per dose

Oil imports account for 3.1% of gross domestic product, and according to Nomura, every 10% rise in oil prices worsens India's current account by 0.4 percentage point

As cities grow, the most important component of planning, its "spine", should be transportation, to connect the periphery and enable movement within the city

Indian IT firms are not uniform entities. Specialised companies, such as Persistent or KPIT, have constructed moats based on deep domain knowledge and long-standing customer relationships

From BharatiyaGPT to tribal language apps, AI is reshaping how India preserves, decodes and revitalises its ancient knowledge systems

Several elements have been introduced in the new series. For instance, the functions of multi-activity enterprises have been segregated, which will provide a clearer picture

The beginning of what could be a multi-decade journey has been made. It will be a slow, consistent process, not a hasty one that may cause disruptions

While survival is no longer at stake, confirmation bias continues to shape our behaviour - especially as investors

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

Sankar brought Kolkata (then Calcutta) to life from the corridors of the Calcutta High Court to the bustling streets of Chowringhee

The political discourse seems to be poised on the precipice of a Himachali-non-Himachali tirade brought on by quarrelling policemen

The IEEPA tariffs were probably already illegal under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, as they violated the principle of equal treatment

To be fair, for Complan, Vaibhav is a good pick, for sure. But would sacrificing school exams, and, in a manner of speaking, putting studies on the backburner, go down well with ordinary parents?

If the Pakistanis think they can do better than the Americans, an Indian partisan can again say, go ahead, make my day

The significance of these figures becomes even more striking when viewed against the backdrop of numerous methodological changes and use of new data sources in the base revision exercise

One way to look at the new series is as a shift from a grainy image to a higher-resolution one. The scene itself does not suddenly change, but the blur is reduced

Overall, the 2022-23 base revision represents a substantive statistical reset