Opinion

Best of BS Opinion: Government must get real on spending

Today's opinions examine India's critical-minerals strategy, FSSAI's food-warning labels, Budget discipline, the RBI's dollar-rupee swaps and lessons from industrial policy

Get real on spending

Ensuring a realistic assessment of expenditure is critical in the current environment of uncertainty

The search for durable capital

The dollar-rupee forex swap was necessary and successful. Now, it is time to weigh the pros and cons of making capital inflows more attractive

Red alert

Stringent food labelling is a good first step

Mission mineral

India needs to build processing capabilities

Best of BS Opinion: Rules that read well vs those that work

Good rules matter only when they work in practice, from regulation and governance to business and public services

Media's post-liberalisation report card

Thirty-five years on, India's media & entertainment industry still accounts for less than one per cent of GDP

What is a personal guarantee really worth?

Beyond the face value of the promise, recovery, incentives and the counterfactual matter

All fall down

Ill-financed municipalities are endangering citizens

Rules for growth

India needs fewer and simpler regulations

Best of BS Opinion: Symptoms demand attention, solutions require diagnosis

A military strike is mistaken for strategy, even when no one has planned what comes next

India's wealth story needs a chapter on retirement

India's ageing population makes retirement planning an urgent financial priority, with NPS emerging as a broader retirement tool beyond government employees

FTAs: The gulf between market access and market success

The larger concern is that excessive emphasis on FTA awareness diverts attention from the central issue - competitiveness

The GDP combat sport

The dispute concerns methodology, base years, deflators, and the various adjustments required to convert the bewildering activity of 1.4 billion people into a single number

Profit and purpose: The ongoing clash

The ideal situation for Tata Trusts is to let go of the controlling interest in Tata Sons, thereby unshackling the commercial arm from the charitable burden

The cost of rising sea

Where coastal land is sinking at the same time as oceans are rising, the effective increase in relative sea level is considerably greater

Consumer Protection: Builder's failure to get OC is deficiency in service

The State Commission observed that a builder is statutorily obliged to obtain the completion and occupancy certificates before offering possession to buyers

The wrong cure

The fact that Beijing stands isolated on this issue is a signifier of the fact that it has consistently refused to address these concerns, and is now in fact denying that they even exist

From empty wallets to 24.5 bn transactions

The very idea of money is in flux. Digital money is gradually starting to behave like software

Blended fuel and BJP's mileage

While EBP may be a great idea, it needed three to four years of preparation. Now, the result is a sugar shortage, imports that are bleeding foreign exchange, and higher prices in the festive season