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Desist from an expansionary budget; go for modest, thoughtful spending hikes

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)

3 min read . 21 Jan 2022Mint SnapView

Icra Rating estimates that India’s airlines are hurtling towards their steepest-ever cumulative loss of more than ₹20,000 crore in FY22, about 44% more than the ₹13,853 crore loss a year ago. (Photo: Mint)

Aviation needs support, covid has been lethal for it

4 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

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Digital payments growth: India’s stunning stride

3 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

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Expert View

Investing in new economic shakti for a new India

3 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

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As much as 51% of the 12,900 respondents across 206 cities were found to support authoritarianism and the idea of dismantling not just Parliament but also elections in favour of a strong leader, technocrats or the military taking charge (Photo: Mint)

Millennial stunner

1 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Say’s Law works: Supply does create its own demand

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has kept up his pursuit of legal options on Future (Photo: Mint)

Amazon’s legal entanglement in India offers a cautionary tale

3 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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India’s long game with China and challenges posed by a ‘soft’ state

4 min read . Updated: 21 Jan 2022

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Seven predictions for the world of technology in 2022

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Wanted: A genomic map of our third covid wave

2 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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The government has upgraded the emergency use authorization (EUA) to Covishield and Covaxin to regular use approval (Photo: HT)

Celebrate indigenous vaccine success, but strive to do better

2 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Omicron’s spike protein is different from the one the vaccines were targeted to fight, and that’s why we’re seeing news stories that the vaccines are “less effective.” (PTI)

Why some vaccinated people resist Omicron and others don’t

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Oil alert: Don’t skid

1 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Our education system is a mess. Children are not learning what they should. And there are deep inequities of access, resources and outcomes—often rooted in geographic, social and economic disadvantages (Photo: HT)

A staggering crisis of education confronts the country

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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Negative real policy rates have distorted financial markets globally (Photo: Bloomberg)

Safe assets are now clearly the biggest risk that investors face

4 min read . Updated: 19 Jan 2022

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A file photo of Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka (Photo: AFP)

World Apart

Strongmen are turning emerging markets into submerging markets

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jan 2022

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This century poses new challenges. If we want our children and grandchildren to look back at the progress we made, globally, then our governance model must evolve

Envisioning Governance 4.0 for a world that must not fail its kids

4 min read . Updated: 19 Jan 2022

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A gathering storm over multilateral institutions

2 min read . Updated: 19 Jan 2022

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: ANI)

The Devas case is not as black and white as the government claims

5 min read . Updated: 19 Jan 2022

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Dodge the cross-wire

1 min read . Updated: 18 Jan 2022

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