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Oil's lost decade is about to be repeated amid rising clean energy bets

Even looking forward to 2026, crude output is likely to remain below the production peak the world hit in 2018

Master of artistic coups: Panahi's Palme d'Or divides Cannes, Iran

Oppressive rules are a universally occurring absurdity, as Panahi's travel experiences establish

H-word, M-word & fading K-word: Stop seeing India through old prisms

If the only superpower, which calls India an ally, sees the region through an India-Pakistan prism, it is unacceptable. Rather than endorse India's sphere of influence, this undermines it

Needed: A war on accidents after crash, stampedes, and derailments

Running more trains during peak hours on a system already running at over-capacity is difficult

11 years of Seva, Sushasan, and Garib Kalyan: From stress to strength

From twin-deficit stress to five balance sheet strength, India's economic turnaround reflects 11 years of focused policy reforms under Prime Minister Modi's leadership

Best of BS Opinion: Playing by instinct when the board is barely visible

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Operation Sindoor: India needs information-defence, not just rebuttals

Counter-narratives do exist today, but coming from unofficial sources, they often get lost in the noise of disinformation

Is a financial crisis in the offing? Watch US rules, not shadow banks

Financial crises cause greater loss of economic output than macroeconomic crises. They are also more difficult to get out of

Silver touch rally: Individual investors must follow the core basics

Traders use the ratio of the price of gold to silver as a thumb-rule to judge relative valuations of the two precious metals

Tangled trade ties: US-China agreement offers little hope of breakthrough

For other trading partners, the US-China deal, as it currently stands, suggests that tariffs would settle at significantly higher levels than before the announcement of the so-called reciprocal tariff

Roads that changed the direction of India's development

In the past 11 years, the roads built have already reduced our logistics costs from 16% to 10%, and next year, we aim to bring it down further to 9%

Best of BS Opinion: Crossing the river with memory, not just momentum

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A S Dulat's new book explores betrayal, belief and Farooq's Kashmir

He never considered independence for Kashmir, but Delhi still failed to trust him fully

Multi-partisanship for reforms can help India unlock stalled growth

Unravelling the Gordian knots in the ease of doing business demands wisdom from across the political aisle

Avoiding the growth mirage: Reforms must go beyond capital infusion

Despite some setbacks and global uncertainty, the economy has shown remarkable resilience and is poised to surpass Germany before the end of the decade to become the third-largest

Balancing act: India needs a practical framework for gig workforce

In a labour landscape riddled with a shortage of good-quality jobs - ie those that come with benefits - gig workers are not to be envied

A fresh start: Base revision will better inform policy decisions

The expected revision will not only change the base year but also include new data sources, which should help make these indices more robust

Best of BS Opinion: India is faced with a strategic turning point

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Reimagining India's quality control mandate as an export enabler

As of today, out of approximately 23,000 BIS standards, only 187 QCOs covering 769 products have been notified. This suggests that while the momentum is rising, the journey is far from complete

Perils of overestimates: Balancing deficit targets with accurate estimates

The sharp downward revision in personal income-tax collections for 2024-25 was perhaps one of the main reasons for the government applying the brakes on its revenue expenditure