DFS secretary M Nagaraju said on Monday that the insurance reforms bill would be introduced in the ongoing budget session of parliament.
7 min read3 Feb 2025How far should India’s recent thaw in bilateral ties with China go? While this week’s patch-up moves are welcome, the real challenge is to engage the People’s Republic in a relationship that serves Indian interests well.
2 min read29 Jan 2025Deliveries of the indigenous Tejas fighter jet have been disappointing. Defence production needs lessons from the auto sector. Let’s foster competition and attract private investment to get the fighters we need.
4 min read12 Jan 2025The Indian economy needs a long capital-expenditure cycle to keep GDP growth up. Policy measures must aim for more private investments, larger FDI inflows and a deeper corporate bond market that has long-horizon investors—like insurers and pension funds—as participants.
4 min read9 Jan 2025India has been the world’s top recipient of these transfers from abroad in 2024, with inflows of $129 billion. This money is helpful, but we must speed up our digital rupee project and push for global mechanisms that’ll make remittances faster and cheaper.
1 min read20 Dec 2024We should let in Chinese FDI and technology to make the most of our China-plus-one opportunity. Whatever the US leader says, Americans wouldn’t want cheap imports to stop—and we could use Chinese investments to our advantage in fulfilling this demand.
4 min read9 Dec 2024The meeting between Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in Brazil reinforced the mutual will to take bilateral ties to new heights. We can expect many new UK-India bridges to be built.
4 min read8 Dec 2024The Delhi high court stayed the court proceedings against P Chidambaram, and listed that the matter will be taken up for a detailed hearing in January 2025, reported the news agency PTI on Wednesday.
2 min read20 Nov 2024News and developments from the week gone by, through numbers and charts.
1 min read15 Nov 2024Net foreign direct investment (FDI) into India has petered off in recent months. There are both local factors and global capital undercurrents at play.
3 min read11 Nov 2024The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared