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Small steps to equity: Lowering SIP threshold should increase penetration

While Sebi may be prepared to subsidise the scheme to some extent, there would still be little headroom to publicise the sachet schemes or invest in distribution

Protecting consumers: Rules for ecommerce must be comprehensive, clear

Estimated at around $137 billion, India's ecommerce market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of over 20 per cent between 2025 and 2030

'Mad about Cuba': Exploring the unique connection between Cuba and Kerala

Cuba is a metaphor in Kerala for communist values, but there is another, lesser-known reason for Malayalis to feel a special affinity for Fidel Castro

Taming inflation: How Union Budget can address economic challenges

By easing supply-side constraints and using counter-inflationary tariff policy, the finance ministry can ensure prices remain in check

Red Sea shipping route may stay open, if Israel-Hamas truce continues

In the last 14 months, the Houthis, using shore-to-ship missiles procured from Iran, have targeted about 200 vessels in the Red Sea

Dark Laboratory: Tao Leigh Goffe ties environmental collapse to colonialism

Aiming to centre Black and Indigenous history and ecology, Dark Laboratory is a pointed response to the dominance of scientific rationalism as the language best suited to the climate crisis

Union Budget 2025: More of the same with similar outcomes expected

Every single feature of India's lower middle-income status remains intact

A sagging India story: Budget 2025 aims to revive flagging momentum

Overenthusiasm about India was so 2024

Durable foundation: The Constitution reflects India's founding values

Constitution remains a guarantor of Indian democracy despite the efforts of those who seek to undermine it

Fiscal health check: NITI Aayog's initiative will inform policymaking

The FHI covers 18 large states and has been developed with a focus on five sub-indices: The quality of expenditure, revenue mobilisation, fiscal prudence, debt index, and debt sustainability

A Budget beyond popcorn: Focus on capex and consumer-driven growth

The government needs to spend more on capex and allow consumers to have money in their pockets if it wants growth. Let's focus on the real issues

Reform inefficient succession processes to ease burden on grieving families

The inefficiency of current succession processes not only frustrates grieving families but also undermines the government's ease-of-living agenda

Microfinance sector seeks support to tackle its several challenges

Microfinance has shown capability and resilience in every crisis: Demonetisation or Covid-19. Attention to the issues it faces can make the sector even more vibrant

Humble CEOs are recalled fondly: History values performance with humility

What mental health is for young people, arrogance and ego are to boardrooms. Is the opposite, the quiet, low-profile performer, even possible?

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India & US: A study in sartorial contrasts reflecting cultural identities

The US is now one of the world's most multi-ethnic societies. Yet when it comes to sartorial choices, everybody hews to type

Middle class & Modi love: Navigating tax burdens and political strategies

The Indian middle class seethes at the growing phenomenon of political parties taking their tax money and showering benefits on the more numerous poorer classes to buy their votes

The End of Progress? Trump era raises doubts over US innovation leadership

Although the US has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under Mr Trump

Echoes of the 1980s: Inflation, wars, and slowing growth resurface globally

The decade was also marked by the so-called "Star Wars". This was an American effort to bankrupt the USSR by pretending to develop space-based weapons

Best of BS Opinion: How small missteps reshape the global big picture

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