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Akash Prakash: Exit FIIs, enter Indians

Yes, foreign institutional investors can't stay over-invested in Indian equities - but domestic investors are ready to pick up the slack

Smart city pitfalls

Can't rely only on states to power urban renewal

Rohit Lamba & Arvind Subramanian: Why India should focus on leverage not just capital adequacy

In part five of a series, the authors explain that if CRAR is proving to be tricky internationally, exclusive reliance on it in India is perhaps even more fraught with risks

Shyamal Majumdar: Labour law - Can Modi pull it off?

What's needed is a give and take that is more than just giving higher compensation to retrenched employees

Mihir S Sharma: The vanity of good souls

Shyam Ponappa: Greater expectations

The government seems to be dealing with India's many problems like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, without an appreciation of the big picture

Pillars of market rally are crumbling

Rise of Indian markets post May 2014 was built on four pillars

Anjuli Bhargava: Keep it simple, please

Try to resolve the real issues facing aviation instead of tinkering with existing rules

Lalit Bhasin: For 'Make in India', first 'Innovate in India'

Why a manufacturing push requires a modern intellectual property regime with global standards

Statesmanlike decisions

Credit to Centre, states for Bangladesh border settlement

This GST is no reform, and the Rajya Sabha must not pass it

The current draft of the Goods and Services Tax could kill any hope of economic revival - and you should blame the Congress if it rolls over and lets it pass

Belle Epoque and a nuclear deal

Breakthrough at Beau Rivage on April 2 could mark the start of a new chapter in Iran-US relations

Why #IStandWithArvind

If the media will not be accountable to the Chief Minister of a party with 67 out of 70 seats then what hope is there for this country!

How about a Babaji ki butti to cure the incurable?

If Ramdev weren't a Baba, but a mere salesman, what would he make of a medicine or a herb named Putrajeevak Beej?

Auto: Room for optimism, buy on corrections

Hiroko Tabuchi: McDonald's chief promises turnaround in a restructuring

Steve Easterbrook, who took over as chief executive in March, has promised to refashion McDonald's into a modern, progressive burger and breakfast restaurant

Remembrance: When Parag Parikh got (a little) angry

If someone had scored the match between Parikh and life like a boxing match, Parikh would probably come out ahead

Jonathan Bernstein: Will Carson and Fiorina disrupt GOP race?

No one remotely like Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina has come close to winning a US presidential nomination in the modern era. But scholars are split on whether their candidacies matter at all

Ashok K Lahiri: Closing the infra gap

The developmental logic behind the new BRICS Bank is compelling

A backward step

Why is India still on the US' IPR watch list?