Best of BS Opinion: Italy locks down, branded generics market, and more

From why analysing state Budgets can be a challenging exercise to how the success of fact-checkers lies in the failure of journalism, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Isn't it time the annual Budgets presented by different state governments received the kind of attention that the Union Budget routinely gets from commentators and economists alike? If relationship marketing is not the way to go, is there a way to build a "branded generics" business in India? Alokananda Chakraborty sums up.

More attention needs to be focused on state Budgets, writes A K Bhattacharya. Click here to read...

There is one silver lining, at least for India, amid the panic related to the spread of coronavirus -- and that's the falling price of oil, says