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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

Omicron displaced Delta as dominant variant in India in less than a month

Other countries with high daily Covid cases have seen similar surge

Internal management: Edtech company Eruditus's next big challenge

Internal management is the primary task before the founders of the edtech company as it witnesses rapid growth

A meaty opportunity for e-commerce industry in India amid Covid-19

Online meat and fish delivery companies see big potential in the growing consumer appetite for hygienic, home-delivered fresh produce

PC, laptop demand on the rise but chip shortage a cause of concern, says HP

The massive 50% surge comes from additional requirements for online learning and WFH; however, demand outstrips actual growth due to chip crunch

Sentiments recovering in January

At 60.3, the index was at its highest in November 2021 since its fall in April 2020 following the Covid-induced lockdown

Conflict of interest in parliamentary panels

While it's up to the government to educate parliamentarians to make their committees meaningful, shouldn't the ones who own industry be kept away from such panels?

Keshav Prasad Maurya: The making of BJP's new OBC face in Uttar Pradesh

Maurya started his political career in the RSS and the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Allahabad