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Best of BS Opinion: A question of spirit, Reforming judiciary & more

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

Retail rush: Keeping faith in markets

The surge in retail participation, combined with increasing market complexity, poses new challenges for the Sebi

A question of spirit

Busy civil servants preparing a five-year plan for the next government raises questions about convention

Challenges for ECI

Young voters must be encouraged to vote

Reforming judiciary

Reserving judgments adding to delays and backlogs

Productive employment

Policy must also focus on earnings

Best of BS Opinion: Buybacks' importance, productive employment, more

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

Huge tax and licence raj in liquor

There is a need to avoid huge taxes and undue licensing. All this can also reduce corruption and even doubts about corruption

Buybacks and their importance

Paying money back to shareholders does not mean that you have no growth. It may simply mean that you do not need all the capital you generate for your core business

Eyeless in Gaza

Little visibility on the end of the conflict

The BJP and the political turncoats

The BJP's assimilation of turncoats from other parties essentially contributes to its expansion not only numerically and geographically but also by enlarging the party's social base

Best of BS Opinion: Exciting world of data science, Poll promises & more

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

In world of extreme weather, plan financial inclusion for the weakest

Poor households are the most vulnerable in extreme weather. Women bear a disproportionate burden as they source scarce water and work in high temperatures

Kudos to CBIC for instructions on GST investigations

For issue of summons, prior approval of an officer not below rank of assistant/deputy commissioner must be obtained and relevancy and propriety of information/documents being sought must be recorded

That tricky issue of job creation

Why is it so hard for government action to create jobs - so much so that even high economic growth under different regimes is not good enough to change the basic picture of unemployment?

Exciting world of data science

...and say bye to the humanities-science divide

Poll promises

Congress could have offered a more progressive agenda

The last mile

Climate issues can complicate monetary policy

Insurance: High surrender charges deter exits

Policyholders are not the only sufferers. Taxpayers subsidise insurers' and banks' profits via unjustified tax concessions given to the maturity value of life policies

All the RBI's men

As the Reserve Bank celebrates its 90th birthday, the concluding part of a two-column series offers a peek into the lives and works of its governors over the past three decades