About 8.5 million devices got disabled globally in the great outage that left users of Windows blue-walled by a faulty update from a cybersecurity firm, as estimated by Microsoft. Less than 1% but still too many. Recall what Bill Gates said about astronauts?
1 min read22 Jul 2024With digital transactions fast becoming the norm for an ever-increasing proportion of account holders, and people being nudged online, it’s vital that e-facilities can always be relied upon
1 min read3 Dec 2020A workable way out would be to create a limited set of emission rights that reduce gradually in accordance with our targets, and which industrial units must buy at prices determined by demand and supply
1 min read2 Dec 2020The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s latest outlook for India is sobering. It now expects India’s economy to contract 9.9% in 2020-21
1 min read1 Dec 2020It’s hard for regular shops to compete with online outlets on prices. But banks should consider reaching out to these shops via CAIT with proposals to help them try. Consumer finance deals should reach all
1 min read30 Nov 2020Their main anxiety seems to be over the spectre of being abandoned by the Centre and left to the mercy of corporate overlordship should the state stop mopping up their produce at special support prices
1 min read29 Nov 2020GDP data for the second quarter, soon to be released, is expected to show a far smaller contraction than in the first but still place India in a technical recession. With hope, our covid crisis will prove to be just a short-lived setback to the emergence of our economy
1 min read26 Nov 2020If gushy inflows put the rupee on an upward path, then overseas investors could profit off this as much as off stock-price gains. Nothing wrong with that. But we must watch the rupee
1 min read25 Nov 2020While it may seem to imply a de facto dip in job security, such arrangements are claimed to work well. And not just for employers looking to keep their wage costs flexible, but also for professionals who wish to maintain a roster of clients and diversify their income sources
1 min read24 Nov 2020It would be best if all the three telecom firms started taking tariffs back to levels that would shore up their financial numbers. This may seem like collusion from a regulatory point of view. But, given the depths to which charges had fallen, it would only signify a return to market normalcy
1 min read23 Nov 2020The 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