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Legalising the currency ban

The jury is out on whether an ordinance or an amendment in the RBI Act is required

Answers to the Strategist quiz (#489)

What was priced at $666.66 as the mark of the beast when it was introduced for the first time?

The Strategist Quiz (#490)

Connect The Delhi and London Bank established in 1844 with the business family which owned the first car and telephone in Delhi

An 'outsider' who is an insider

Bali Padda, new chief executive of Lego

IRFC an outlier in project finance for core sector

Railways' mega investment plan of Rs 8.56 lakh crore over five years starting from 2015

Venture capital shift from growth to early-stage funding

It is moving from growth stage to early-stage; from consumer to enterprise (b2b), to those offering SAAS

ESAF to raise Rs 300 cr for small finance bank

The new SFB is expected to start operating by mid-February 2017

Key deals last week

Start-up funding eases, but crunch is not over

Winter is here but the freeze in funding could be easing for start-ups

Amma's legacy: Social, industrial, crime rankings among India's best

J Jayalalithaa, who died on Monday, was known for gifting her 72 million people a record set of freebies

What is holding Indian jute mills back?

The jute industry continues to rely heavily on govt purchases to sustain itself and has resisted any efforts to modernise

ibibo sets off on new journey with MakeMyTrip

The merger has allowed the travel portal to shift focus from survival to growth and put resources in expanding to new markets

After demonetisation, govt should tighten noose on high-value cash deals

After demonetisation, govt should come up with follow-up measures to curb high-value cash transactions, say experts

Newsmaker: Qamar Javed Bajwa

Trying to decipher Pak's new strongman

Debate: Draft medical device rules, 2016

The landscape for the medical devices industry is at an inflection point with the government re-working the regulatory framework

Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: Demonetisation, black money and GST

The way GST has been done, there is as much scope of making black money as was there in the existing tariff

Statspeak: Premium opportunity

The total premium of the overall insurance industry in India is projected to reach Rs 26 lakh crore by 2020, according to a report

Sarfaesi Act is above tribal land laws

Brief case: A weekly selection of key court orders

US Congress to enshrine defence ties with India in new amendment

Congress to clear bill next week, President Obama will sign into law thereafter

Newsmaker: Erubothu Venkataiah

This bureaucrat from Karnataka is making a daring bid to own a slice of oil pie