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Statsguru: Seven charts explain India's tryst with cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin, which commands more than $50,000 on any exchange today, was founded anonymously in 2009

Kolkata Port sails on asset monetisation, intends to expand portfolio

India's oldest port has been leasing its vast land bank for decades. With the Budget announcing plans to monetise public assets, it intends to expand its portfolio and extend to non-land assets, too

How to revive PMC Bank

Mired in corruption, politics and with a history of suicides by its hapless depositors, PMC Bank's revival is a challenge very different from Yes Bank and LVB, both for the regulator and the rescuer

Oiling the recovery

Private players struggle against excessive regulation. The result is loss of investment and employment opportunities in India

India's visa curbs for Chinese workers hurting Taiwan tech giants

India has been slow to issue visas to Chinese engineers, who are needed to help Taiwanese companies set up factories in the South Asian nation

A long jump for IIFCL as DFI tag to support financial needs, growth

Its planned incorporation into a larger development finance institution could present challenges for a company with a founding covenant that restricted its scale of operations

Elon Musk should come clean; Tesla's carbon emissions are rising

A company that thrives on the power of the sun shouldn't hide the footprint of its own operations in shadow

When we will buy grocery and watch movies with cryptocurrencies

Experts believe we are not too far from those days

Auto part makers shift to top gear as industry's growth accelerates

After being stalled by the economic slowdown and the pandemic, growth is accelerating rapidly for the industry

Decoded: Understanding the draft guidelines on credit default swaps

In the past too, the RBI has tried to launch a comprehensive CDS product but it never really took off

Constitutional challenges to a complete cryptocurrency ban in India

The need then is to regulate, not ban, experts say

We need to understand our own ethnic genome better: Albright's Mehul Mehta

In an interview, Mehta tells Anjuli Bhargava that picking up mutations before a spike in numbers is crucial and genomics is the future of medicine

Year begins well as January recovers employment loss of past three months

Employment in India is still lower than it was before the lockdown, but there are lesser unemployed people willing to work as well. The recovery is still incomplete but, we made good progress in Jan

Maruti Suzuki moves up the gears, plans to become an aspirational brand

To that end, it has worked hard on design tweaks and technological upgrades in its models, besides overhauling its retail network in a big way

Too many questions on bad bank and infra DFI

Why do we need a bad bank, owned by the banks themselves, when there are at least 28 ARCs around?

The self-regulation toolkit: OCC operators struggle for a fine balance

Arguments over a voluntary code for self-regulation intensify even as the prospect of government intervention looms

Decoded: What are pro forma NPAs and how does that impact borrowers?

An analysis of results declared by listed banks so far shows that the NPA figures shown in the bank income statements are lower than the ones earmarked on pro forma basis

Trademark row to 'financial creditor' under IBC, here're key court orders

A selection of key court orders

Govt eyes different monetisation models to raise resources for investments

Unlike privatisation, monetisation of assets does not require transfer of ownership to private hands; instead, projects are vested with a trust or a private operator

Pawan Ruia's Air India bid is another example of faith in his own abilities

The move, even by his standards, seems bold. Especially, when his companies - Jessop & Co, Dunlop - that earned him the moniker "turnaround tycoon", are facing liquidation