WEF's index shows India has gained in perception

India's competitive edge

Business Standard

Don't think small

New Delhi must anticipate effects of higher oil prices

The OPEC surprise

Sustained efforts are needed to expand the tax net

The black money haul

Parliament, rather than the courts, should settle the debate

The right to be forgotten

Thursday's strikes send a strong signal to Pakistan

A decisive action

RBI would be justified in opting for continuity

Cause for a pause

India's ratification of the Paris climate deal was inevitable

Smart turnaround

An executive order is adequate to set up the rail tariff body

End the delay

Mr Trump did himself few favours in the first presidential debate

Advantage, Ms Clinton

Govt must augment storage and reduce wastage in agriculture

Water: Missing the real point

Only directly elected and empowered officers can run smart cities

Needed: Smarter mayors

By altering the dynamic of the India-Pakistan antagonism to a question of comparative economic attainments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adroitly succeeded in tamping down the febrile war rhetoric from Parivar hawks and elements in the security commentariat after last week's fidayeen attack on a forward base in Uri in Jammu & Kashmir, along the Line of Control. Increasingly boxed into an undesirable course of action following his initial restrained response that the attack would not go unpunished, Mr Modi chose the time and place to deliver his message well. His call for a "war on poverty and unemployment", delivered with customary flourish, followed the exchange of oratorical hostilities between Pakistan's prime minister and the Indian diplomatic contingent to a largely uninterested audience at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and built on the striking description of Pakistan as the "Ivy League of terrorism".By choosing to frame his riposte at a public meeting ahead of the Bhara

Fighting spirit

Sebi to fix promoters' side deals with PE investors

In defence of small shareholders

A rush job to meet GST's April 1 deadline can be risky

Two done, many more to go

The state can mandate ways for Indians to live together

The limits of intolerance

The Delhi High Court's notable judgment last week lifting a four-year ban on a photocopier kiosk on the Delhi University campus from providing students with "course packs" containing material from books published by three international publishers is unlikely to end the debate around copyright laws and their application. The votaries of a better alignment between Indian and global intellectual property rights (IPRs) will deplore the ruling, which struck down a petition filed by the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses and Taylor & Francis in 2012. There is no doubt that, taken together with India's lax enforcement of anti-piracy measures and the Supreme Court's rejection of a patent extension to Novartis in April 2013, the country's reputation as an IPR enforcer is unlikely to be enhanced.The publishers, however, had based their case on a narrow interpretation of the Copyright Act, saying that the reproduction of work could be allowed in classroom instruction or in an exam paper.

Copyright lessons

Status quo by key central banks implies more FPI inflows into India

Inflation doves soar

Government must come up with a clear strategy urgently

Wake up on air defence

The key issue is to enhance the carrier's autonomy

Rebooting railways

Subramanian panel has many good, and a few bad, proposals

Reading the pulse

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