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Vodafone Idea's AGR dues lifeline: Relief or risk for India's telecoms?

Earlier this week, the apex court allowed the Centre to re-examine Vi's entire AGR dues up to financial year 2016-17

Zohran Mamdani's NYC win signals a turn towards the Left in US politics

Progressive Zohran Mamdani's stunning NYC win and key Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and California signal headwinds for Trump ahead of next year's US mid-term polls

Thin ice: States are drowning in debt and politics keeps adding weight

Cash transfers to women need a wider debate

From Dhaka to Colombo, Gen Z has started raging at rotten governance

Each revolt in our neighbourhood was driven by corruption, with lessons for India

Best of BS Opinion: India's half-open shutters and half-fixed systems

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

Electoral freebies underpin growing drift in states' fiscal discipline

The deepening fault line of sub-national fiscal drift beneath India's political economy is now hard to ignore

Government should reconsider its outdated restrictions on FDI in ecommerce

To be sure, the concerns of small traders should not be dismissed. But protecting them need not mean stifling progress permanently

New maritime policy can revive India's shipbuilding, boost employment

The creation of a Maritime Development Fund can provide the much-needed long-term, low-cost capital, which shipyards and shipping companies require

Trump's bipolar G2 dream is fundamentally unstable, lacks global influence

What is clear is that both G1 and G2 know that their field of geographical dominance cannot increase any more than it already has

Best of BS Opinion: When the noise fades, it's time to command the wind

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

Shares for social good: How India's wealth boom can drive philanthropy

The M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025 identifies 1,319 individuals with net worths above ₹1,000 crore (ultra-high net worth individuals, or UHNIs) - up from 229 a decade ago

Viksit Bharat needs a clean system: Growth depends on fighting corruption

Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. Nor is it unique to India - indeed corruption can be found across the world

Cooling investor sentiment toward India may be a contrarian positive signal

The concerns around India remain the same. Valuations are too high. There is no economic & earnings momentum. We have no artificial intelligence (AI) play or beneficiary

On top of the world: Institutional support has empowered women's cricket

The euphoria over a famous victory should not detract from the fact that the women's cricket has a long distance to travel to catch up with the men's game

Policy transparency: Report on missing inflation target must be released

The framework has been designed to make the monetary policy transparent. For instance, the law mandates even the publication of the MPC meeting calendar well in advance

AI boom, old bubble: Why America's stock surge looks dangerously familiar

Wall Street's AI boom is built on self-reinforcing hype, shadow credit, and trillion-dollar bets - and if history is any guide, the crash could be sudden, sharp and global

India watches as US President Donald Trump engages with East Asian leaders

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) announced the launch of Bharat Aayat Niryat Lab Setu

Best of BS Opinion: India, US must push for a quick trade agreement

Today's opinion pieces look at the US tariff issues, NCR's air pollution hazard, India's diversity as a counter to AI, and the need for knowledge-industry linkages

In an AI-obsessed world, India's craft may yet redefine 'Made in India'

What is currently perceived as a massive, low-tech liability could become a high-value, export-oriented economic engine

NCR's air pollution problem needs hard decisions from states, Centre

The Delhi government's well-meant cloud-seeding experiment to contain pollution must be viewed in this context