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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

After the Chabahar exemption, India must push for a trade deal with the US

The pause of the export restrictions on rare earths and magnets will be a particular relief to many places, including the European Union and India, which had been caught in the crossfire

Your credit is easier to steal than your money: How online lending works

A simple 'Buy now, pay later' click can trigger a full loan without consent. Weak verification, no alerts, and instant disbursals are fuelling identity fraud in India's digital lending ecosystem

Regulators have an issue to solve: Balancing dynamic pricing's cost

Pricing decisions rely on mathematical calculations. Over time, the practice has transitioned from a unitary method to probability

A new wave of reforms set to sweep banking, boost capital and growth

At this juncture, allowing higher foreign stake in PSBs is the right call. It will help them increase capital and scale up business

Best of BS Opinion: The night, the noise, and the need for balance

Today's pieces look at public debt and economic stability, trade as strategic leverage, the continuing unemployment crisis in Bihar, and how pollution has turned the Milky Way's light into an irritant

New currency of hard power: How Trump turned US imports into an asset

If China is an exporting superpower, America is an importing one. Mr Trump has turned what would usually be a liability into an asset

The perils of economic centrism in a polarised world: Growth or restraint?

While stimulating the economy during a downturn is important, the size of the stimulus needs to be calibrated, especially if it leads to very high debt

Grandmaster Danya's death exposes cyberbullying threat in online chess

Danya, the son of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, was a few weeks short of his 30th birthday. He was a former World Under-12 champion, a bestselling author, and a very popular coach

Night stolen by light: How our love of brightness became overexposure

As cities battle filthy rivers and toxic air, with cloud seeding now the latest half-measure, few mention another pollutant - the constant glow that is erasing the stars