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Deepening reach?

The debate over banks as insurance brokers

Bolstering the safety net

If rupee's strong for now, then RBI should buy dollars

Mature transitions

New government should carry forward the projects of the old

Strong recovery

But complacency about external weakness should not creep in

Growing intolerance

Authorities must allow individuals the freedom of choice

Regulatory failure

In Sahara case, the Supreme Court's interest made the difference

No due diligence

India's institutional investors have been sleeping on their job

A decision on GM trials

But beef up safeguards for genetically modified crop trials

A long hot spring

Notes on a lengthy election season

Old price, new terms

How government can solve the natural gas pricing problem

Crimean spring

As Russia enters Ukraine, global inaction has grave implications

An ailing health ministry

Failure to fix medical regulator's problems

Doers all

But what exactly do India's leaders want to do?

Forgetting forests

Funds for crucial mission approved a decade late

The task ahead

For growth to revive, capital efficiency must improve

Clicks of the future

Liberalisation of online retail is overdue

Dropping a call

Half-hearted merger norms for the telecom sector

Reinventing the G20

Focus on harmonising standards and rules

Farewell the chairman

Ashok Gulati revitalised a sleepy wing of the government

Polls that mislead

Transparency needed in opinion polls, not an outright ban