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Obituary: Remembering Dr Radhika Pandey (Dec 18, 1978 - June 28, 2025)

Some of her main research contributions were on household consumption behaviour, analysis of business cycles, the inflation targeting framework and regulation of the financial sector

Aamir Khan's strength lies behind the camera, in challenging convention

For the past 40 years, Aamir Khan has carved out a career as an actor with his unique, off-beat choices

Best of BS Opinion: The quiet undercurrents changing the world today

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India needs thousands of innovators like Suhas Patil and Anjan Bose

These are "hidden champions" of strategic research and innovation. They are worthy of emulation within Indian industry, and maybe even a Padma!

Mamdani is someone to be proud of, but his ideas haven't worked in India

Zohran Mamdani's faith, support for Gaza, and dislike of Modi and Netanyahu are reasons why many in India are unhappy to see his rise, rather than celebrate it as another 'Indian' conquest

Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda could actually spur faster growth in NYC

Mr Mamdani's campaign focussed on making NYC an affordable place to live

As US credibility falters, Asia and Europe must lead global stability

Given that everyone will suffer from these shocks, cooperation to ameliorate them should be a priority, especially for Asia and Europe

Best of BS Opinion: Too much of a good thing can ruin the broth too

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Rise in personal income tax collections encouraging, sustainability suspect

Sustained growth in PIT would depend on sustained expansion in taxable economic activity, one that generates employment to support salary income and contributes to business income as well

MF industry shows exuberance, but financials lag macroeconomic tailwinds

Over the past one, three, and five years, many Indian equity mutual funds have underperformed their benchmark indices

Best of BS Opinion: Catching the world in mid-spin and messy realities

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Plurilateral agreements may help keep WTO relevant into the future

A large number of developing economies have been benefitted, through their participation in FTAs, and increased their integration with GVCs and their share of global trade

Customer-centric or customer-obsessed? Companies must choose to be former

Bulky feedback forms and tying up CEO bonus to net promoter scores is not customer centricity

Best of BS Opinion: Ghosts return when we forget why they were banished

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Phil Craig tracks Allied powers' duplicitous endgame in Asian colonies

Operation Semut typified the Allied betrayal of Atlantic Charter ideals. It's a pity Mr Craig overlooks similar betrayals of the Nagas and others who served the British in the India-Burma theatre

Developing EWS flats in cities tougher than households building own homes

An independent study finds that the long-running Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) programme has shown the way for addressing this challenge in non-million cities (under 1 million population)

Falling PSU disinvestment receipts as stark as higher govt capex for them

Disinvestment as a policy was launched in the early 1990s to bolster revenue and use the reduced government stake in PSUs to help enhance their autonomy

Best of BS Opinion: Fragile power and rising risk in geopolitics and policy

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Doubling India's labour productivity in the next decade: Why and how

Rising labour productivity is the foundation of long-term improvements in real incomes, which are crucial for improving living standards and enhanced personal empowerment

Outline for GST 2.0: Steps that will make it a good and simple tax

Rate rationalisation should not be viewed in isolation as a revenue exercise, but as one integrated with trade policy and broader macroeconomic objectives