Opinion

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

A greater role for local bodies can boost urban healthcare but administrative challenges need to be addressed

The president has an opportunity to consign state-versus-market dichotomies to history and reshape the two as complements

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

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.

Confidence in governance matters to our lives and recent instances of its erosion are a cause for worry

Every business should be designed to manage resources efficiently and also deliver well against a scorecard of public needs

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

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 said on Monday that had agreed to buy Nuance Communications Inc. for about $56 a share, or almost $20 billion including debt

Government policy attention and public patronage should combine forces to generate millions of roadside jobs in our cities