Best of BS Opinion: Why SBI should get Navratna/Maharatna status, more

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

A new era in banking, and policies as a guide in certain circumstances

Tamal Bandyopadhyay says the new State Bank of India chairman faces the task of maintaining the bank’s stock-market momentum. The outgoing chairman promised less and delivered more. 

Mihir S Sharma looks at three polities to explore the question if policy matters. When they do, they redefine one and one’s party.

Debashis Basu makes a case for bank fixed deposits, which, he says, are better than having money in debt mutual funds.

 

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We have always emphasised that we want the caste census ... It will ensure that the government has correct numbers. However, I do not want the figures of the census to come out in public.

 

Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party President Chirag Paswan