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Maruti Suzuki digitises to click with buyers: How exactly does it work?

India's largest car maker is finding traction in the national roll-out of its digital financial services platform

Statsguru: Six charts explain India's $3-trn market cap cheer amid Covid-19

The ratio of the value of all companies in the stock market to the size of the Indian economy is now in excess of 100 per cent

A no-action policy with focus on growth

'Unwinding' is unlikely to happen before the third quarter of this year even if we don't mess up in tackling a possible third wave of Covid; rate hike may have to wait for next year

Champagne of teas loses fizz amid scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown

Scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea

Explained: What if the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a laboratory

A paper published by the WHO on March 30, 2021 claimed manmade origin of the virus was "extremely unlikely". This view is now being challenged

Parents, school staff must be vaccinated for children's safety: Jacob John

John says that the world needs to start talking about eradicating Covid

Despite suspension of IPL, game on for fantasy sports platforms

The suspension of the IPL put them on a sticky wicket; its resumption has them feverishly working to keep users engaged and improve their offerings

High level of taxation widens divergence in diesel inflation in WPI, CPI

Diesel retail prices are back to more than Rs 80 a litre in the national capital throughout this month and remain on an upward trajectory

IT Rules: Legal experts weigh in on reasonable curbs to Right to Privacy

Say the new rules do not pass the test of proportionality to justify breaching a user's privacy

Bharti Airtel, Jio call on the digital game, but it's a long haul yet

The big two telecom players have reorganised their digital businesses in readiness to monetise them.

Keeping politics out of CBI will be Subodh Kumar Jaiswal's major challenge

CBI has many challenges ahead of it. The most recent is the Narada scam, which re­lates to a sting operation by the Narada News website in 2016 that had allegedly shown TMC leaders accepting bribes

Explained: Why Tokyo Olympics will be like no other amid Covid-19

Covid-19 is still spreading but the games appear to be going ahead, in what would be the biggest world event of the pandemic era

Farzad-B gas field: India one of the losers in energy politics of West Asia

Last week, after chasing India to develop the field for 13 years, Iran announced that it will develop the offshore gas field, which runs along the country's maritime border with Saudi Arabia

Explained: Why impact of 'long Covid' could outlast the pandemic

Weeks and months after seemingly recovering from even a mild case, many patients still confront a wide range of health problems

Fiscal vs monetary policy, under uncertainty

Heightened uncertainty from a second wave is likely to increase the relative efficacy of fiscal vis-a-vis monetary policy

Double-digit unemployment rate makes a return

The unemployment rate touched 14.5 per cent in the week ended May 16, 2021

Statsguru: Six charts explain why monsoon is so important for economy

An even more virulent second wave means that economic growth, income and employment will again depend on agriculture to a large extent

RBI's disclosure dilemma

While the RBI must respect the spirit of freedom of expression, we need to draw a Laxman rekha, and the RTI Act should not become a tool to bypass all confidentiality requirements under other laws

A recovery interrupted

This first of a two-part essay assesses the emerging economic fallout of the second wave

2-DG drug for Covid-19 treatment: Here're the benefits and concerns

The idea behind using 2-DG in Covid-19 is that along with other anti-virals, it can help prevent replication of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in inflamed lung cells of Covid-19 patients