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Mayday for airports: Urgent need for de-congestion plans to speed up

With rising incomes and falling fares expanding the demand for air travel over the past decade, almost half of India's key airports may be breaching their capacity in FY19

Another regulatory spat: Govt must insist on independent payments regulator

Following certain recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee, an element of controversy seems to be brewing over the location and leadership of the proposed regulator

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio continues eating into incumbent subscriber pie

Mobile broadband subscriber base growth since last year clearly shows that Jio has continued to get the benefit of the closure of smaller operators

Rafale deal controversy: AAP joins BJP-Congress war on social media

The Congress social media team was helped significantly by the AAP on the Rafale fighter jet issue

Letter to BS: Love transcends everything, but not caste system in India

Inter-caste marriages will go a long way towards the abolition of caste. Caste is antithetical to the spirit of humanity

Letter to BS: Observe 29 Sept as Surgical Strike Day, UGC tells varsities

The government is also attempting to politicise the Army, amid fears that the thin line between the government and the Army might diminish

Letter to BS: Number of divorce cases has shown alarming increase in India

The Bharatiya Janata Party government is trying its best to bring the Uniform Civil Code to cover all the citizens of the country

Hazy guidelines

Confusion over e-commerce policy must end

Let it fall

RBI should not spend dollars defending the rupee

Letter to BS: Q GDP growth quantification will empower decision makers

Reporting Q GDP will make citizens responsible and change consumer preferences

Letter to BS: Rajan's policies, not note ban slowed growth, says NITI VC

It was only with the introduction of the AQR that the real position of NPAs was revealed

Letter to BS: 70.86% rise in I-T returns due to govt's prudent tax policies

Tax collection in the April-July period has increased by only 11.3% and is at a 3-year low

Rains and protests: Women march to Parliament Street against violence

A huge chunk of these protesters made their way from the New Delhi railway station to a muddy Ramlila Maidan today

Bureaucracy and BIMSTEC

India has failed to show leadership in its neighbourhood

Unusual acts of omission

RBI's ambivalent stand on YES Bank CEO raises uncertainty

Letter to BS: Outbreak of rat fever in Kerala a matter of grave concern

The health department has done well to issue a treatment protocol and direct workers and volunteers involved in post-flood relief work to follow its directions

Letter to BS: Q1 GDP growth speeds up, but policy concerns remain

For long these two sectors have been a drag on GDP growth, and a cause for serious worry

Letter to BS: Independent directors of private banks face RBI heat

Large divergence in the classification of the assets created by the banks are not uncommon

Ticket aspirants must have 15,000 likes on their Facebook Page: MP Congress

The Madhya Pradesh Congress has asked aspirants of party tickets for the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state to be more active on the social media

Crisil SME tracker: Flood-hit Kerala MSEs stare at working capital hiccups

As per the National Sample Survey, 2016, Kerala had 2.379 million MSEs, employing 4.464 million people