The college admission councils should make allowances for students who wish to get off the conveyor belt of education till the world is safe again. India’s new National Education Policy, after all, is bullish on academic flexibility
Opinion
A sensible hold-off

The third tier of government can bolster urban health

A greater role for local bodies can boost urban healthcare but administrative challenges need to be addressed
America’s Supreme Court may frown upon vaccine passports

Are they really the least restrictive means to achieve their purpose?
Joe Biden needs to fix the future of the United States, not the past

The president has an opportunity to consign state-versus-market dichotomies to history and reshape the two as complements
The need for empathetic leadership in the workplace

This crucial aspect of good management can overcome hardship and increase productivity
The UK’s Sewell report reveals a failure to see racism for what it is

Britain is better aware of its inadequacies than earlier but still bristles when warts are pointed out
The kerfuffle over stock options for IndiGo’s boss

What the airline’s promoters saw as a worthy package for its CEO, minority shareholders sought to reject as excess baggage. Who’s right isn’t easy to assess, given the aviation outlook
Monsoon relief

After all, its inflation-targeting mandate had only just been extended for another five years. Favourable rainfall this year will reduce the risk of rising food bills clouding up its easy-money policy.
The role of public trust in people’s subjective well-being

Confidence in governance matters to our lives and recent instances of its erosion are a cause for worry
India can’t ignore the promise of big blockchain innovations

Influential voices have arisen in support of an e-finance revolution
Wanted: A charter on the public purpose of private enterprise

Every business should be designed to manage resources efficiently and also deliver well against a scorecard of public needs
Tech can help unclog our judicial cholesterol

Reform efforts to digitize our judicial system should focus on appropriate flows of data for justice delivery
Financial regulators need to keep up with the evolution of fintech

Their challenges range from threats of market domination and instability to violations of privacy
Go all syringes blazing against this covid wave

At last, the Centre has given all vaccines okayed by major regulators abroad an in-principle go-ahead in India. This could’ve been done earlier. Let’s lose no further time against covid-19
Sputnik’s lift-off

To speed up inoculations now, we should allow other jabs in, too, perhaps even open a market up for them. With regulators keeping watch, we needn’t fear price-gouging
Microsoft’s $20 billion AI deal will shake up how we work

- Microsoft said on Monday that had agreed to buy Nuance Communications Inc. for about $56 a share, or almost $20 billion including debt
Production-linked incentives: A well-designed scheme

Its benefits are easy to avail of and it should boost output and exports without flouting WTO rules
Envy of Elon Musk is growing in the country of Yuri Gagarin

Russia is long past its space heyday and short of private ventures
Empower street vendors to get India’s urban economy moving

Government policy attention and public patronage should combine forces to generate millions of roadside jobs in our cities
RBI is in uncharted territory with quantitative easing

The use of a tool invented by the US Fed will have ill effects that a loan-for-shares scheme could have avoided