Editorial Comment

Dorms to degrees

India needs a well-regulated student-housing market

Warsh on the job

Global uncertainty and interest rates may remain elevated

The next frontier

Digital-payment trail can improve risk assessment for lending

Rules beyond borders

Beijing has started making laws for the world

A dose of innovation

Pharma sector needs a supportive environment

Mounting cost of a stalemate

India must again prepare for higher oil prices

Message from Bishkek

If the summit underlined a critical international message, it was the emergence of China and President Xi Jinping in particular as a powerful competing sphere of influence

Macroeconomic management

The Iran war and disruption in energy supplies, resulting in higher prices, created the possibility of an expansion in the CAD

The product guys

It gave up work on creating an Apple-branded electric vehicle - a decade-long effort called Project Titan - in 2024, even though it poured cash into the project and recruited aggressively

Terms of engagement

If Meta is forced to abandon the engagement-algorithm for its most committed users, and if other platforms follow suit, the industry will undergo a tectonic shift

Rising forex reserves

Besides the uncertainty in West Asia, India must also be prepared for shifts in global financial conditions

Unconditional reforms

The fact that the BIS statute is mandated by different ministries and that the process can take up to six months adds to investment complexities

Skilling to employment

Workplace exposure also needs to be expanded because 80 per cent of learners cite inadequate practical experience and industry exposure as a major gap in their degrees

Inclusive lending

Economists have shown that information asymmetry can produce adverse selection and that markets can lose good opportunities when one side does not have enough information about the other

Bitter harvest

The government says stocks are sufficient to meet domestic demand until the new crushing season begins in October, but the sharp price rise shows how sensitive the market has become

Mask up

Like other kinds of seasonal flu, H1N1 flourishes in humid weather

Limits of 'Economic D-Day'

Beijing is the customer of almost 90 per cent of Iran's exports of crude oil and it supplies Tehran much-needed infrastructure support and dual-use technologies

Fixing the foundations

India needs to strengthen teaching infrastructure

Increasing telecom tariffs

Operators must not leave those looking for basic services

Development vs conservation

Kaziranga is famed for the one-horned rhinoceros; it has 2,613 of them, accounting for two-thirds of the world's population of this species