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Pandemic Pool: Is this the best the insurance sector could come up with?

In case of a calamity, the govt may need to step in to help those at the lower rung of the economic ladder and it may not need the insurance sector as a middleman in those circumstances

Govt deviates from norm, asks House to regularise 2-year-old expenditure

Demonstrates the sluggishness at the Centre in finalising its accounts, which means the states have to depend on older data to make their point about revenue and expenditure mismatch

Of human bondage

It is such detailed work on forced labour that could have been significant

Stamp duty going digital is like demat of shares: NeSL MD & CEO S Ramann

NeSL has set up a secured digital document execution (DDE) platform which will facilitate MSMEs and individuals to avail contactless loans on remote basis, says S Ramann

UP is the new Kerala in terms of remittances from Indians in the Gulf

The northern state houses 21 of the top-50 districts from where most low-skilled Indians go overseas for employment, followed by Bihar with seven; Kerala has only one

Govt asks ministries to review performance of staffers aged over 50

Older, inefficient employees may be pushed into early retirement

How the SC order on use of natural resources could muffle investments

If a resource has become useful only because someone has improved it through an investment, there should be no reason not to let that addition be counted and the valuation determined accordingly

Private investors plan to expand gas pipeline network amid complex policies

Indian and foreign investors have shown interest in the country's plans to expand its domestic gas pipeline network but remain worried about steel capacities at home and the complex pricing policies

Why Atmanirbhar could be govt's biggest gift to Indian pvt sector in 30 yrs

Despite the largesse, however, it remains to be seen whether or Indian companies can shrug off the old habit of jugaad, tweaks and twists

Throwback to SEZ era: Real estate sector makes room for data centres

The central government ministries, too, are getting into the act on behalf of the sector.

Why corporations still struggle to find land to set up manufacturing bases?

Companies, Indian and foreign, have discovered that there are still no developed markets for land

Will the country finally have an integrated tax surveillance system?

Valuable leads on under-payment of tax have often slipped between CBDT and CBEC, who have been more eager to protect their respective turfs

Gas economy: Centre planning to change LNG pipeline pricing policy

The second of the two-part series talks about why zonal pricing may be on the way out

Energy pricing: Centre may allow Chinese miners to bid in coal auctions

The first of a two-part series analyses how price signals have been planned in coal sector reforms

Has ICMR become a super-regulator of sorts in the medical sector?

Clearly, the ICMR as a research body is not the best equipped to handle the role of a regulator for the sector. Yet it has become the most visible face of India's fight against Covid-19

To what extent would Covid-19 yield space for urban bodies to run cities?

Cities are setting the rules that now carry life and death implications for their residents, and most of these rules are sought to be set by the municipal authorities, who have never wielded such powe

Beyond Galwan fastness: Energy security in Indian Ocean may be a challenge

Chances are any such disruption will not occur on the major shipping lanes but on some edge of the ocean between India and China

The inside story of how the govt's Covid-19 package was worked out

Large-scale reshuffles, pressure from various stakeholders and need to revisit all the budget numbers delayed the response

How merely a change of rule can draw more FDI in sectors like insurance

Despite the presence of 24 life insurance companies and 34 non-life companies, the needle of insurance penetration in the country has hardly moved over the years

Has Covid-19 made a unified response to a national crisis the new normal?

While the Centre and the states have been nimble in launching joint action plans to contain the disease, there is sceptism that this is just a one-off