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Encouraging signs

Good export performance reduces risk of rupee volatility

Whatsapp deal and taxation in India

Why the govt's stance on retro tax could impact the Whatsapp-Facebook deal

The European Surge

Ultra-competitive domestic leagues and a massive pool of talent is ensuring success for European nations at major tournaments. Does that signal the end of Latin domination at the world stage?

Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: Jaitley's war on tax terrorism

The finance minister has done well to draw on the Shome report on tax administration reform in this Budget to move towards a more taxpayer-friendly regime

M J Antony: Swamped in cyberland

Lower Budget allocation for computerisation will hinder access to legal information

India plays spoiler

New Delhi should not derail WTO accord on trade facilitation

Temporary reprieve

Inflation lower, but macroeconomic challenges remain serious

Is Flipkart worth $5 billion?

Nivedita Mookerji argues that there's a case for it

President Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party's defence of Amit Shah is inconsistent

One national market

Economic Survey's agricultural road map better than Budget's

Vinayak Chatterjee: Infrastructure - Beyond the Budget

The emphasis has shifted from resource allocation to creating enabling frameworks

Vivek Dehejia: Aiming at the wrong target

Inflation targeting is not necessarily the holy grail its defenders make it out to be. We ought to be mindful of this in India

Ajit Balakrishnan: Job destruction - and creation

Andy Mukherjee: Target - inflation

Rewiring the financial system might just bring back the economy's missing growth spark

Nilanjana S Roy: Jamil Ahmad and the last frontiers

Aadhaar 2.0

NDA should not repeat UPA's mistakes

Devangshu Datta: The BJP's bitter-sweet Budget

Jaitley's first Budget was workmanlike: it avoided major missteps. If the economic cycle is on an upswing, this will not retard it

Transitory or sustainable?

Recovery depends a lot on government action

Differential taxing

Capital gains tax should not discriminate between assets

A K Bhattacharya: Jaitley's 16,473-word balancing act

An analysis of the frequency of various watchwords in the finance minister's Budget speech shows that he was perhaps trying to hold on to his ideas without treading on anybody else's toes