Forest policy needs to be reviewed to plug existing gaps

Another withdrawal

Business Standard

But decision on allowances is a repeat of past mistakes

A fait accompli

India's MTCR membership has few new benefits

Obligations sans rights

Stressed assets still a big problem for banks

RBI's warning signal

Indian ad agencies are learning the art of story-telling

Rich haul at Cannes

Time to fix remaining airwave usage issues

Plentiful spectrum

An early intervention by PM would have been more useful

Curbing indiscipline

The prospect of a sustained global crisis looms large

The world after Brexit

Securing his resignation is good, but not enough

Questions on Mr Khadse

RBI right to keep interest rates unchanged

Play it safe

Government should stay the course on pricing reforms

Right moves

India must follow up on its promises to the region

Dams and ports

Sportsman and symbol

Telecom regulator ties itself up in knots

Net neutrality confusion

No immediate gains, but new spectrum formula welcome

Ending uncertainty

All predictions are off in this strangest of campaigns

POTUS pending

Policy consistency in India's ties with US welcome

Mr Modi in DC

Hope for positive economic effects must be tempered

The monsoon is here

The Indian internet user-base reached 317 million by October 2015, overtaking the United States, courtesy year-on-year growth of 40 per cent. India's rapid growth was largely responsible for pushing the global internet base to three billion by end-2015, according to a widely circulated report prepared by Mary Meeker on internet trends for 2016. The report by Ms Meeker, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC, classifies India as a market with "mixed demographics" and medium-to-high infrastructure barriers. Although smartphones are cheap in absolute terms at an average price of $158 a piece, the price is about 10 per cent of India's per capita income. The report highlights areas where paradigms are changing rapidly. Growth should zoom in voice-operated computer interfaces, image-based e-commerce platforms, mobile video advertising, messenger-based marketing and communication and in on-demand transportation.One out of every five mobile searches is now voice-initiate

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