Best of BS Opinion: Decoding India's dress code, Instant settlement & more

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

Growth with a dress code. New Year reading

Tamal Bandyopadhyay: A rate cut will happen this year. When? It will depend on the growth-inflation dynamics as well as the US Fed action

Debashis Basu: The economy is in the swing. But just a bit of bad news can bring things down.

Ajit Balakrishnan looks at various dress code ideas and if there is any change afoot.

The second edit says T+0 will deepen investor participation. But two ways of settlement can complicate things. And the first edit looks at what’s ahead and how to keep up the growth story

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We are not surprised, concerned or angry but ashamed of the pact (with the government). We were aware of the outcome as when revolutionaries give up their goals, ideals and ideology, a political settlement is not possible.

 

Paresh Barua, leader of the anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent), to an Assamese TV channel on the phone