Best of BS Opinion: A change in course, building social capital, more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The driver of the Budget and the markets. Reading for today.

Mihir S Sharma, through three shifts in the Budget, sees a possible change in the government’s course.

Debashis Basu states three reasons for the current bull run on the markets. Government spending is one reason. Corruption is another.

Tamal Bandyopadhyay: The regulator (the Reserve Bank of India) has recently issued show cause notices to a few P2P platforms for certain practices. Let’s see how they defend themselves and how the regulator reacts.

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Jan Suraaj (campaign) will become a political party on October 2 and contest next year’s Assembly polls. Other details, such as party leadership, will be decided in due course

 

Election strategist Prashant Kishor