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'What are you willing to sacrifice for Truth?'

Excerpts of Nobel Lecture given by Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021 Maria Ressa

Cryptocurrencies, meme stocks atop Google's year in search in 2021

In entertainment, Walt Disney's Marvel franchise dominated the top five searched movies

These tech firms are taking the e-commerce battle to India's hinterlands

How social commerce firms are democratising e-retail by tapping community group buyers from tier-2 and smaller towns across India

Surging prices threaten to scupper India's coming-of-age gas party

Domestic gas prices are much lower than LNG rates as they are controlled by the government

Private credit fashions a cautious entry, attracts attention of PE players

Despite differences over the projected size of this market, a growing number of PE funds are testing the waters

EV scooter startup Simple Energy to invest $330 mn for new Tamil Nadu units

Simple Energy plans to invest as much as 25 billion rupees ($330 million) in new capacity to make electric scooters, with support from the government in Tamil Nadu

Fino Payments not planning to turn into small finance bank 'right now': CEO

Company is only profitable payments bank and 'lot of things need to settle down first' for it to consider seeking a licence for conversion, says Rishi Gupta

PE players need 'patient capital' of 11 to 20 years to maximise valuations

PE funds are increasingly exploring longer investment options beyond the standard five- to 10-year template

Does size matter?

If what we are seeing is not a passing trend, video consumption in India is moving more and more towards the mobile phone

Dish TV vs Yes Bank battle: A matter of principle for both companies

The Supreme Court's interim order that the police have no right to freeze voting rights has set an important precedent for the practice of applying criminal law in civil-contractual disputes

The learning curve: Why college education for women matters

The correlation between districts with college-educated women and multidimensional poverty was very high for 10 of 12 indicators

Vu TV refocuses its sales strategy on emerging market of high earners

Vu Store went live on December 1, and is housed in a new retail business called VU D2C Private Limited

The tech holes that ensure that crypto can never be effectively banned

It is estimated that $1.25 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions have happened on decentralised finance platforms from India

Women still bear disproportionate burden in many areas, shows NFHS-5 data

One in 10 women in the hinterland wanted ac­cess to family planning methods in 2019-20 but did not have an opportunity

Assessing the case for a legal MSP

Greater clarity on its precise connotation could help resolve the continuing standoff between the government and farmers

Current steel rally might make FY22 a turnaround year for Tata Steel Europe

The removal of "Section 232" - 25 per cent tariffs by the US while allowing limited volumes of steel from the European Union - should also augur well for TSE

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-9

Every time I have contributed to EW and its successor EPW, I have felt like paying a small part of my debt to Sachin Chaudhuri

Repeal of the three farm laws: For FPOs, it's back to square one

The repeal of the three farm laws has erased the small gains that would have accrued

India will remain a coal-dependent economy well into the future

Despite diplomat-speak at Glasgow, the country will remain a coal-dependent economy well into the future

BS Number Wise: The case of the missing coronavirus data

Judged on 11 criteria, state and central governments don't do a good job in sharing accessible and timely information on the disease