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insurance

In case of a calamity, the govt may need to step in to help those at the lower rung of the economic ladder and it may not need the insurance sector as a middleman in those circumstances

Pandemic Pool: Is this the best the insurance sector could come up with?

Business Standard

For financial sector companies sett­ing up shop in India, as of now the go-to regulators are obviously the Sebi and the Reserve Bank of India

Who is the real boss of India's financial markets?

Running with the Dragon: How India should do business with China

It is a remarkable story for the business press in India that reaches reflexively towards the few wellknown stories of Dr Reddy's or Sun Pharma and Tata Motors whenever China is mentioned

Doing business in China

auditing

The list of companies sent by the RBI for bankruptcy resolution shows their auditors do not belong to the big four, or even the big six

Method in the madness

coal

Coal shortage in India had followed an annual cyclical pattern. This year that pattern has not played out

An old tale with a new twist

A trade war with the US might derail China's Belt and Road Initiative investments, but that's exactly what India wants to hear at the moment

Donald Trump's trade war with China could be music for India's ears

ONGC

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A rare exception to this rule was provided by the experience of the merger of the five associate State Banks into the State Bank of India on March 31, 2017

HPCL-ONGC merger: When corporate governance takes a back seat

Underfunded exam-taking bodies are no match for the stakes of examinees

Acid test for the exam system

The go-to person for organisations in distress talks to Subhomoy Bhattacharjee about the need for checks and balances in the corporate world

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee: The man with many hats

Two organisations tracking tax violations and money laundering worldwide identify totally different sets of countries for lack of financial transparency. How one reads the Panama Papers controversy depends on which ranking one believes makes the cut

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee: The legitimacy of capital flow

India must press on with its response to international questioning and criticism by Canada and allies

India Canada

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Big Tech

The legal battle between Humans of Bombay and People of India has exposed questions of originality, ethics, and commercialisation in the world of digital storytelling

Government readies 'improved' IPR policy before PM Modi's US visit

The Indian team on Sunday finished last in a five-team field to crash out of equestrian cross country after rider Ashish Limaye was eliminated here at the Asian Games.
The Indian team consisting of Vikas Kumar, Apurva Dabhade and Limaye finished with a total penalty score of 1070.80 which was significantly higher than other competitors.
Limaye had topped the dressage discipline in equestrian eventing competition on Saturday.
In the cross country event, while Kumar had total penalties of 41.20 and Dabhade had 29.60, Limaye was eliminated for missing two jumps.
"This happens in high-level sports. He is a good rider. He has experience. He jumped the first two fences and after the combination he turned left to go outside (the route), forgot to turn right," said Indian coach Rodolphe Scherer after the event.
"I told him afterwards and he said he was 'stupid' but I do not think he was stupid. Big pressure on the brain. That can happen in your life. I am very sad for him that it happened

Ashish Limaye

A delegation of the Election Commission of India (ECI) spearheaded by CEC Rajiv Kumar arrived in Rajasthan on September 29 to review preparedness for Assembly elections to be held later this year

Voting, elections, Polls, Votes

The India-US relationship is at an all-time high and the Modi government is going to take it to a different level, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that like the Chandrayaan, bilateral ties will go to the moon and even beyond.
Jaishankar's remarks came as he addressed several hundred Indian-Americans gathered at the India House from various parts of the US to attend the 'Celebrating Colours of Friendship' event organised by the Embassy of India here on Saturday.
There is one clear message today that our relationship is at an all-time high. But as they say in America, you ain't seen anything yet. So, we are going to take this relationship to a different level, to a different place, he said at the largest-ever gathering of Indian- Americans at the India House.
Jaishankar said that the success of the G20 could not have happened without the support of the US.
As the host, when things go well, the host always gets the credit. It's reasonable. But, the G20 could

External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is his own master, and the Ghosi byelection is a demonstration

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath

A radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens beyond Earth and among us

The satellite telescope -- the largest ever launched -- was sent into orbit roughly a million miles from Earth late last year, and has been undergoing months of tests, calibrations and alignments.