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Choosing a lifestyle
Our life is about the lifestyle choices we make
Modi's labour reforms not quite enough
Labour sector needs bigger reform than the PM revealed
Rupee likely to trade weak versus dollar
Dow Jones Industrial Average has gone for a monthly maximum gain of plus 10.65% and a monthly maximum loss of minus 23.22%
Satya Poddar: Cleaning up with the GST
The incremental revenues from taxation of land and liquor will help in keeping the GST rate low
Enabling inflation targeting
Real government action on inflation containment still awaited
Agnikalam: India's strategy - both Japan and China? The answer is no!
We need to reduce our trade deficit with China and make a clear turn exclusively towards Japan
 "Agnikalam: India's strategy - both Japan and China? The answer is no!")
Vivek Oberoi: Mr Modi and the economists
The basic wisdom of economics is that not compromising is costly. If Narendra Modi doesn't heed this lesson, he risks running an administration that is ineffective at best and disastrous at worst
Manage a depreciation
Weak global economy, strong rupee are both hurting India
A K Bhattacharya: Living on hope
Pushback to Modi govt's policy pronouncements has already started, it now has a very small window of opportunity to bring in reforms
Comfort from commodities
Space being created for a cut in interest rates
Katie Benner: Will Yahoo's board save Marissa Mayer?
If you want to know when Mayer will be forced to bow to the activists, watch the board - because she works for them. They'll decide whether she'll stay long enough to turn the internet giant around
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The Tamilian view of independent news
The launch of News7Tamil gives hope to the thousands of professional journalists and editors who do not want news media to be regulated by the government and used as tools of influence
Vinayak Chatterjee: Sunshine over Madhya Pradesh
Well-crafted policies and smart implementation have led to a solar power surge in the state
Ravi Bhoothalingam: India misses a short cut to vikas
The country's 'security' fears in engaging more closely with China's regional economic outreach programmes are overdone
A Nobel for incentives
The importance for India of Jean Tirole
Sumitha Narayanan Kutty: Why we can't take Afghanistan for granted
Hamid Karzai clung tight to India but Afghanistan's new leadership may have other ideas
Daniel Gros: The ECB's faulty weapon
Though quantitative easing, or QE, might work in a debtor economy with a flexible financial system like the United States, it could backfire in a creditor economy with a conservative financial system