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Floor price ain't good maths

It's avoided by regulators in developed countries as it is considered anti-competitive and anti-consumer

Big e-commerce meets small biz: A balancing act for Amazon, Flipkart

As trader groups cry foul against them, online majors learn to do business with small companies

With no sign of turnaround, NCR real estate market on tight belt

The second of a three-part series looks at how the overall economic slowdown and govt action on the debt-laden builders have altered the real estate landscape of Gurugram region

States, local communities must come together to ensure tap water for all

According to government's estimates, some 146 million rural households do not have tap water coverage

Inside a VC's world

The book is an easy read if you are interested in an insider's perspective of the venture capital and start-up space in India

Channelling into a new stream

Boosting investment to creating employment: Officials managing the Jal Jeevan Mission are setting goals beyond universal water supply

Mistry as Tata Sons chairman: Cloud over key decisions, board appointments

If all those decisions are null and void, the group's business will be in a mess, an official pointed out.

Needed: Seamless internet

In times of need, access to internet should be widened to scotch rumours and fake news and not the other way round

Sitting on piles of data

In the next leap, Ayushman Bharat will not only scale up its data pool and spend but also the model to tackle fraudulent transactions and entities

Nripendra Misra quits PMO, PK Mishra likely to be Modi's new Principal Secy

The PM has asked Misra, a 1967 batch Uttar Pradesh (UP) cadre IAS, to continue for another two weeks.

'PM joked that media trying to trap me by saying anti-Modi things'

PM calls meeting with Abhijit Banerjee excellent, professor thanks Modi for unique experience

Startling parallels between Tiffany, Flipkart

The two got new owners at an identical deal size. But the similarity ends there...

If Vodafone actually quits, India will be the bigger loser

The govt must take a call at the highest level at the earliest, treating Vodafone's exit call with all the seriousness that it deserves

Two books offer a close account of Flipkart and BigBasket's journey

Two books - one an insider account, the other a journalist's narrative - capture the journey of Flipkart and BigBasket, the first-movers in India's e-commerce story

How govt has fared on its promise to connect the unconnected, underserved

Whatever be the outcome of the AGR verdict on telcos, the government must deliver on its promise towards the other India

PM Narendra Modi joked that media trying to trap me: Abhijit Banerjee

Prime Minister calls meeting with Abhijit Banerjee excellent; professor thanks Modi for unique experience

Excellent meeting with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, says PM Modi

Esther Duflo not present at the meeting

Crossed wires

The noise over call tariffs and interconnection usage charges drowned out issues related to customer choice at the India Mobile Congress

Flying high, feet on the ground: Aditya Ghosh on checking in with Oyo

'I wanted to work for a company that has a big presence in India', said Aditya Ghosh

Learning from start-up failure

In Sidharth Rao's How I Almost Blew It, besides the stories of the entrepreneurs, what keeps the reader engaged is the writer's observations on the start-up world