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Voter lists and marketing research

Voter Lists were available for a small fee those days and all good market research agencies sourced these lists to create a sampling frame

Cost of annuity projects: A new risk has emerged in govt's financials

This favoured route for financing roads is gaining traction for other infrastructure projects but could result in unsustainable liabilities for the government

It's time to formalise the normalisation process: Part 1

Inflation may not be as transitory as has been estimated since rising demand will add to the supply bottlenecks

Despite high downloads, mobile apps struggle to make money in India

InMobi surveyed 1,000 smartphone gamers and was surprised to find that 74 per cent preferred to watch an ad for progressing within the game rather than make app payments

Spooky but secure: A big leap for ISRO in quantum communications

Using quantum computers for calculations involves using the superpower of superposition

Confusion in the crypto universe: Budget leaves many unanswered questions

Budget announcements on taxing digital assets and creating a digital rupee involve complex issues that need to be addressed first

Union Budget 2022: How the India's social sector gets short shrift

Government allocations on health and education do not meet its targets and consistently fall short in terms of actual spending

Budget 2022: Emphasis on asset creation over direct income enhancements

The government has enhanced its capital expenditure significantly with specific focus on infrastructure in areas of railways, roads, and logistics

Budget 2022: India to join a small group of countries with digital currency

Till now, only nine of the 91 countries have launched a central bank digital currency

India must step up coal imports to avoid a repeat of last year's crisis

Unreliable domestic dispatches prompt customers to either pay more for imports or stop operations

Employment and the government

Almost every political party promises jobs during elections. But, governments do not seem to recognise the problem of employment adequately

States charge up for a data centre boom as global majors bet big on India

An inevitable rise in land prices in such areas is also a cause for concern

Mass transport awaits a green revolution: How FM can power up EV industry

Clean energy public transport is crucially dependent on the mechanics of financing

India, with lunar odyssey planned this year, is among many looking moonward

The Chinese already have robotic probes on the moon, including a lander-rover set on the dark side

India's great wall for Chinese investors, after 2020 Ladakh conflict

How the government bled China-based FDI after the Ladakh conflict

Bollywood actors among those who breached ASCI influencer ad guidelines

Ranveer Singh, Urvashi Rautela, Jacqueline Fernandez named in report that lists 28 instances of violations by influencers, brands

Lockdowns and learning curve: Digital access doubled, but outcomes uneven

With schools having been closed for long periods, learning has inevitably taken a hit

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-13

If there was any economist who deserved more than one Nobel Prize it was Kenneth Arrow, whom I have always regarded as the greatest economist of the 20th century

B'desh hospital, a cyclone-hit area's lifeline, rated world's best building

The building uses water as its central point and provides sustainable, low-cost essential healthcare to the local communities

Fuel demand, capacity addition by refiner likely to inflate oil import bill

Demand for all fuels rose 5 per cent in the April-December period to 148 mt from a year earlier, according to the oil ministry