Page 2 - Business Standard Editorial Comment

Red alert

Stringent food labelling is a good first step

Mission mineral

India needs to build processing capabilities

All fall down

Ill-financed municipalities are endangering citizens

Rules for growth

India needs fewer and simpler regulations

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

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

False nine, true champion

Messi exits the national team in a blaze of glory

Yielding trouble

Rising bond yields can create risks

Message from Bishkek

If the summit underlined a critical international message, it was the emergence of China and President Xi Jinping in particular as a powerful competing sphere of influence

Macroeconomic management

The Iran war and disruption in energy supplies, resulting in higher prices, created the possibility of an expansion in the CAD

Himalayan blunders

The fact that the Himalayas are also a zone of high seismic activity adds to the instability and unpredictability of this phenomenon

Innovative acquisitions

Comparing AI's infrastructural significance to landmark inventions like steam engine and the internet, Mr Chandrasekaran pointed out that AI was an opportunity that would unlock demand

The product guys

It gave up work on creating an Apple-branded electric vehicle - a decade-long effort called Project Titan - in 2024, even though it poured cash into the project and recruited aggressively

Beating the odds

The data from the expenditure side showed that private final consumption expenditure increased 7.1 per cent during the quarter, an improvement over the previous year but below the headline rate

Terms of engagement

If Meta is forced to abandon the engagement-algorithm for its most committed users, and if other platforms follow suit, the industry will undergo a tectonic shift

Rising forex reserves

Besides the uncertainty in West Asia, India must also be prepared for shifts in global financial conditions

Unconditional reforms

The fact that the BIS statute is mandated by different ministries and that the process can take up to six months adds to investment complexities

Skilling to employment

Workplace exposure also needs to be expanded because 80 per cent of learners cite inadequate practical experience and industry exposure as a major gap in their degrees

Inclusive lending

Economists have shown that information asymmetry can produce adverse selection and that markets can lose good opportunities when one side does not have enough information about the other

Bitter harvest

The government says stocks are sufficient to meet domestic demand until the new crushing season begins in October, but the sharp price rise shows how sensitive the market has become