RBI flags major risks to India's banking system

Threats to stability

Business Standard

Land ordinance a step towards reviving investment climate

A mark of urgency

Directive on electronics procurement can be counterproductive

Going back in time

Fiscal targets should be met not just by spending cuts

Opportunity to tax

But what do the markets expect from 2015?

A remarkable bull run

Transforming institutions key to India's development

The institutional gap

Government must frame policy on net neutrality

The war over data

Posthumous awards do a disservice to great Indians

Political intent for Bharat Ratna

Oil and Russia decline, as China continues to rise

2014: Living in interesting times

Implications of India's declining fertility rate

Development challenges

Conversion agenda

Regional parties are not going away so quicklyThe elections in Jammu & Kashmir and in Jharkhand have thrown up results that are both surprising and expected, in different ways. As expected, the Bharatiya Janata Party vastly increased its tally in both states; the incumbent governments were hammered, and the Congress hit particularly hard, especially in Jharkhand. These were the expected trends. But, on taking a closer look, some other signs are also visible. It is clearly far too soon to declare the "Modi wave" over. But it is also true that the BJP is perhaps somewhat disappointed with its performance in Jharkhand, where some in the party were hoping for as much as a two-thirds majority for the BJP. It seems that it has not yet been able to penetrate tribal-majority areas as much as it had hoped, with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha holding on to a reasonable proportion of its core vote. Meanwhile, in Jammu & Kashmir, the party's claim of a "Mission 44" to get a simple majority was

Lessons from two elections

Reintroducing tax breaks for special economic zones is a bad idea

SEZ follies

Is the end of business-class air travel visible?

A new class

Farmers still struggling for access to govt schemes

Flaws in policy

Now, the big push

A half century of cold war between US and Cuba ends

A long face-off

United States Federal Reserve gives emerging markets a breather

A temporary reprieve

Perils of open capital account underlined

Russia in trouble

Let SpiceJet fail

Will tragedy jolt Pakistan's establishment into sense?

Peshawar's murdered children

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