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Get it right

Centre must now work towards a flawless GST

Mihir S Sharma: Why Raghuram Rajan matters

Transition in RBI's top job should be openly discussed, and the pros and cons of possible candidates weighed by the public

M J Antony: Monsoon clouds over judiciary

The Supreme Court faces twin challenges when it reassembles after vacation

Andrew Ross Sorkin: An unspoken reason behind the LinkedIn sale

That would be the company's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation

Define your trading system properly to increase gains

There are hundreds of trend-following trading systems available but the last mile will always be up to the individual

Subir Roy: The bell tolls for public sector banks

RBI's new experiment

Borrowers' cash flow holds key to tackling stressed assets

Forget currency, FCNR redemption will test the equity markets the most

Past trends show that a weak rupee leads to outsize drops in the equity markets

BJP's UP strategy: Reach out to Dalits, shock & awe Yadavs, Muslims

To repeat 2014 Lok Sabha results, Amit Shah working round the clock to ensure a three-cornered contest in UP; asks party cadre to launch peoples' movement to fight illegal occupation of land

Shyamal Majumdar: Don't fret over salary disclosure

Mutual fund houses can't argue in favour of opaque compensation practices

Shyamal Majumdar: Nano at a crossroads

Somebody in the company should have the courage to tell the new boss that it would be a futile exercise as the "people's car" has tried to don a "cool" avatar at least thrice in the past with pretty c

Shyamal Majumdar: Daiichi Sankyo's self-goal

Udta Punjab row highlights talent crunch in BJP, govt

Nihalani as Censor Board chief and Chauhan as chief of FTII highlights crunch that plagues the Centre in deciding heads for these outfits

Are fears of Raghuram Rajan's exit overdone?

Rockstar Rajan's exit will be a temporary blow, not a permanent one

Modi govt's tactical retreat on labour reforms

Jaitley has had to roll back several measures under pressure from unions, such as tax on withdrawal from EPF and 0.1% cut in PPF interest rates

RBI's pause not without reason

Is Pahlaj Nihalani out to bury the Indian film industry?

Indian audiences now have international options available. If Indian films don't match-up to their expectations, they will move on

Revival is still patchy

Growth will be heavily dependent on consumption in the absence of strong investment

Web monkeys

I even set up a gang called Web Monkeys, a group of hip, high-tech teens supposed to save the still-new internet from doom: clearly, computers were magical back then

A critic's Raj hangover

Khakhar's work, outside of its context and milieu, can appear difficult to absorb, but to Jones, who seems not to have made the effort, "He is genuinely not good."