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  • Positive impact of raising the exempt income slab limit and single rate of income tax for individuals
    We are aware that the Income Tax Act as currently applicable to individual tax payers is unfair and non-equitable in the sense that it excludes agriculture income from income tax payment and no efforts are...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 9:37am -
  • Age-old borrowings or electoral bonds?
    The Supreme Court recently struck down the system of electoral bonds that was introduced to provide funding to political parties. The court directed the State Bank of India, that was authorised to issue such bonds,...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 9:01am -
  • Five key factors 2024’s winning strategy must optimise
    Incumbent Modi-led NDA remains the clear favourite, judging from both opinion polls and anecdotal evidence. Yet, Lok Sabha elections remain notoriously hard to predict. Judging from Lokniti-CSDS data going back two decades, around a third...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 8:53am -
  • What to watch out for as India gets ready to vote
    With EC firing the starter’s gun for the biggest democratic exercise in human history, the immediate question to ask is not who will win or lose, but what will influence the outcome. There is no...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 8:46am -
  • Plenty at stake
    All LS elections are consequential. But 2024’s may be more consequential than most The model code of conduct that kicked in on Saturday will continue till June. The actual polling will start on April 19...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 8:33am -
  • How the election economy works
    Nothing official about it The election economy will make its presence felt in the coming weeks through the massive expenditure that is the hallmark of Indian polls. There is scope for moral outrage over the...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 8:24am -
  • Master the art of cultivating power
    By Thich Nhat Hanh It is true that if you do not have power, you cannot do anything. Money is power. There are those who have a lot of money. They are so rich, but...
    - 1 day ago 18 Mar 24, 8:00am -
  • Basics of nutrition: Respiratory system
    Last week, we discussed the Gastrointestinal Tract, which provides the essential nutrients our bodies need to sustain themselves. These nutrients require oxygen to metabolize and produce energy. The respiratory system is crucial in delivering fresh...
    - 2 days ago 17 Mar 24, 10:42am -
  • The blinding light
    Spiritual Growth Is By Contrast: We have all experienced this phenomenon, where we have looked directly into the light and it has temporarily blinded us.  Looking into the glare of the sun or the reflection...
    - 2 days ago 17 Mar 24, 10:19am -
  • Valuations-over-values mindset can sour India’s startup story
    Startup successes have been among India’s standout achievements in the last decade. From uniquely Indian innovations to clever tweaks of global plays (such as cash on delivery for e-commerce), Indian founders have used ingenuity, skill...
    - 2 days ago 17 Mar 24, 5:30am -

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  • View: Sitharaman's announcements make a revival in investment look likelier than ever
    Import duties have been tweaked for manufacturing exports that are being pushed through production incentives. Small enterprises that are yet to see an uptick in the investment cycle are in for a beneficial tax treatment. The finance minister has tried to cover all the bases for a revival in investment. It is now a matter of when, not if
    - 1 Feb 23, 4:03pm -
  • Economic Survey 2023 underlines development economics
    The Indian economy's medium term growth is predicated on demographics that require synchronised improvements in inclusion. This requires reforms of governance at the grassroots level, the Economic Survey recommends. The Centre and states would do well to heed it.
    - 31 Jan 23, 8:30pm -
  • ET View: India growing back well, but to grow more, faster....
    This is a direct fallout of economic management during and after the Covid outbreak that vaccinated a labour force in time to resume work, pushed-up public sector capital expenditure to generate higher income and employment, brought inflation to manageable levels relatively quickly, and restored consumption through targeted emergency welfare.
    - 31 Jan 23, 4:19pm -
  • ET View: Many a slip before Shinde rebellion succeeds
    BJP and Shiv Sena together have the numbers to form the government in the 288-member Assembly. With 145 being the majority mark, BJP (106) and Shiv Sena (55) add up to 161. Independents are also likely to support.
    - 22 Jun 22, 5:25pm -
  • ET View: HDFC merger spells consolidation in India's private banking space
    HDFC Bank, in turn, can use its heftier balance sheet to write bigger loan cheques. The costs of the merger have been brought down by the recent streamlining of reporting and delinquency provisioning rules for non-bank finance companies and banks. And HDFC’s exposure to affordable housing and micro-lending makes it easier for its loan book to sit within the development finance requirements of HDFC Bank.
    - 4 Apr 22, 2:15pm -
  • ET View: Make budgetary hay while the economy is turning around
    Recent experience with divestment has dictated a more realistic assessment of capital receipts, although 5G spectrum is up for auction in the next financial year.
    - 1 Feb 22, 7:08pm -
  • ET View: A bold move to bury the retro tax ghost
    The Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha, nullifies the tax demand on the indirect transfer of Indian assets on transactions prior to 28 May 2012. The law will apply prospectively: gains from the sale of shares of a foreign company will be taxable in India if such shares, directly or indirectly, derive value from assets located in India. This makes eminent sense.
    - 5 Aug 21, 9:13pm -
  • View: The cost of a rate-cut rollback and how to set it right
    ​​Elections are underway in five crucial states, inflation is rising, and the country facing the second wave of the pandemic that has hurt incomes and livelihoods. A crucial policy decision on cutting the administered interest rate on small savings ought to have been thought through well.
    - 1 Apr 21, 10:55am -
  • ET View: In terms of growth contraction, the worst seems over
    In terms of current prices, GDP for Q3 is estimated to have gone up by a credible 4.3%, over the like period in the previous year. It does reflect higher value addition, read dearer prices, in sectors like agriculture, given rigidities in supply amidst pandemic-imposed restrictions in delivery and logistics.
    - 26 Feb 21, 9:00pm -
  • View: Why doesn't the Supreme Court crack down when lower courts violate its orders with disdain?
    The government should stop trying to suppress the voice of dissent through arrests, charges of sedition or causing enmity between communities and arm-twisting of social media platforms. And the Apex Court should pursue contempt charges, not against those who make open criticism of its rulings, but against the lower judiciary that subverts the constitutional order.
    - 11 Feb 21, 5:29pm -
  • ET View: Negative rates as conscious policy
    The RBI’s policies on maintaining high liquidity to fuel recovery, keeping a Targeted Long Term Repo window open is most sensible. It is unlikely to be used much, though, considering the oodles of liquidity being created by the RBI’s attempt to keep the exchange rate reasonably stable, even as foreign capital floods in, as confidence returns to mature markets.
    - 4 Dec 20, 12:29pm -
  • ET View: Remembering Jaswant Singh, the team player
    While valuing his officers’ inputs on reforms to steer the economy, Jaswant Singh had an ear to the ground – be it putting more money in homemakers’ purses or being responsive to industry’s woes. He was quick at decision making.
    - 27 Sep 20, 5:14pm -
  • ET View: Even before Covid, economy was slumping
    The government needs to fix the banks and create a functional bond market. This alone can raise the rate of investment. Gross fixed capital formation as a share of GDP was down to 26% in Q4 of 2019-20, and 26.9% for the year as a whole. Without raising it by six percentage points of GDP, India cannot shed its low growth trap.
    - 29 May 20, 7:53pm -
  • ET View: Welcome steps by RBI; it can surely do more
    While the monetary policy measures announced today are certainly necessary, they can hardly be deemed to be sufficient, in the face of severely weakened demand conditions economy-wide, following two entire months of severe economic lockdown.
    - 22 May 20, 7:05pm -
  • ET View: A big bang for small and medium enterprises
    Liquidity for power utilities, subject to state government guarantees, will ensure that power generation is not shut down. Of course, the power sector cannot be redeemed without a change in the political culture of patronising power theft and open-ended giveaways.
    - 13 May 20, 7:28pm -
  • Time to junk captive mining policy
    The way forward is to policy design a vibrant market for ore, so that steel and other metal producers face no uncertainty in procuring minerals and other raw materials at competitive rates.
    - 4 May 20, 7:47pm -
  • ET View: Extension of lockdown uncalled for
    The government is making a hash of loosening restrictions while extending the lockdown.
    - 1 May 20, 10:31pm -
  • ET View: Give liquidity directly to companies and state governments, RBI
    All the regulatory measures are welcome and will help companies and real estate developers. The liquidity measures have a more mixed import.
    - 17 Apr 20, 5:09pm -
  • ET View: Normal monsoons good augury
    The IMD projection says rainfall is likely to be 100% of the Long Period Average (LPA) precipitation for the country as a whole, with a model error of plus or minus 5%. But note that over the years there has been wide variability in monsoon rainfall patterns across regions.
    - 15 Apr 20, 7:19pm -
  • ET View: Welcome end to total lockdown
    It is welcome that the Prime Minister has restricted extension of the all-India lockdown to six more days after the original deadline of April 20th. The early lockdown has probably saved thousands of lives and helped contain the spread of the disease.
    - 14 Apr 20, 11:38am -
  • ET View: RBI should better target liquidity injection
    ​The central bank is not directly purchasing corporate bonds of large enterprises and major non-bank finance companies (NBFCs), as is par for the course in the mature markets. Instead, RBI has announced long-term repurchase obligations or repo in government securities with banks, so that the latter can then use the liquidity available to subscribe to corporate bonds or commercial paper or debentures.
    - 27 Mar 20, 8:33pm -
  • ET View: Over to the voters of Madhya Pradesh
    It is for the voters to punish defectors by defeating them, their backers or proxies in by-polls. If voters do not care, and allow such shenanigans to proceed apace, political parties would try to grab power by inducing MLAs to defect.
    - 20 Mar 20, 4:00pm -
  • ET View: Focused, forward-looking water policy needed
    The way ahead is to step-up recharge of aquifers and groundwater resources, even as we better allocate resources for surface irrigation systems and their maintenance. We are increasingly dependent on groundwater for irrigation, which is clearly unsustainable. But the maintenance and upkeep of surface irrigation systems is also neglected across states.
    - 12 Mar 20, 10:58pm -
  • ET View: On a wing and invocations of ancient India
    Does it hold out the definite prospect of reversing the growth slowdown? It does not. Does it fix the gaps in financial plumbing that prevent finance from being mediated to viable infrastructure projects? Not quite. A market for corporate bonds is India’s prime requirement now, and that remains a work in eternal progress.
    - 1 Feb 20, 5:45pm -
  • ET View: Economic Survey revives an old tale about Microsoft
    Microsoft has come a long way since then and even became the world’s most valued company. The Survey does not hold out a happy story.
    - 31 Jan 20, 5:16pm -
  • ET View: No-fly overkill over Kamra
    Civil Aviation minister Puri advised other airlines to follow suit. Air India, GoAir and SpiceJet followed suit — if the minister had asked them to do likewise, they would have done likewise — no matter Kamra did not misbehave on their flights. Nor did they convene a meeting of their internal committees that are supposed to ponder over a complaint.
    - 29 Jan 20, 5:35pm -
  • ET View: Why the proposal for PM-Yasasvi is a good idea
    At the broader level, the fact that the students will be selected through a national test is likely to help schools across the country to meet certain basic curriculum and teaching standards. The inclusion of senior citizens in the scheme is a recognition of the untapped capacity for contribution of this segment of the population.
    - 17 Jan 20, 5:55pm -
  • View: SC verdict on internet shutdown in Kashmir rightly demands the restoration of ‘reasonableness’
    The Supreme Court’s verdict that the Internet is a part of Article 19 – key to providing India’s citizenry with the ‘basic freedoms’ that include the freedom of expression – finally calls a spade a spade, and has demanded that Internet service be restored in Kashmir for all essential services.
    - 10 Jan 20, 12:09pm -
  • ET View: Time to boost demand, forget the fiscal deficit target
    The time has come for the government to shed its obsession about fiscal deficit targets and borrow more from the market, both to compensate the states for their shortfall in GST collections and to meet its own expenditure commitments. India still has deep reserves of economic resilience and it is necessary to avoid any self-defeating talk of recession.
    - 29 Nov 19, 7:08pm -
  • ET View: Promptly review levies, charges and the high extent of revenue share in Indian telecom
    The levies, charges and mounting dues would essentially financially cripple and may even bankrupt the leading service providers, and have wholly-avoidable negative effects and signals much beyond the telecom sector itself. The Cabinet needs to purposefully rationalise central levies and charges on telecom operators for the greater national good.
    - 14 Nov 19, 10:35pm -
  • ET View: CPI likely to remain elevated for statistical reasons
    The latest inflation numbers suggest that retail headline inflation, read the overall rise in consumer prices, has gone up beyond the 4% target set up Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The MPC is mandated to policy-induce a narrow 4-6% range for the retail inflation rate. The CPI has risen at the fastest rate since June last year.
    - 14 Nov 19, 4:23pm -
  • ET View: Sensible decision in Karnataka, now to let the December 5 bypolls decide the ex-MLAs’ future
    The 14 MLAs who quit from Congress and the three from the Janata Dal (Secular) last July, leading to the fall of the JD(S)-Congress government, may have reasons other than pure disagreement and/or disenchantment with the way their own parties were going about governing and such things. Now, it’s for the bypolls on December 5, to decide the fate of the 17.
    - 13 Nov 19, 12:14pm -
  • ET View: September IIP - Lacklustre capital goods output keeps overall index low
    As for manufactures, which account for over 77% weight in the industrial index, production has contracted and posted minus 3.9% growth. The sharp contraction in automobile production, with the output of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers declining by minus 14.9 % y-o-y has clearly adversely affected production.
    - 11 Nov 19, 10:15pm -
  • ET View: Accept the Ayodhya judgement and move on
    It is the duty of all concerned to not just maintain peace but also to work for sustainable unity.
    - 9 Nov 19, 12:19pm -
  • ET View: Economy, the winner
    For the polity, too, an Opposition staging an extinction rebellion is certainly good news. A healthy democracy needs an Opposition that is not a pushover.
    - 24 Oct 19, 11:38am -
  • ET View: Nobel for Abhijit Banerjee
    While Banerjee got his PhD from Harvard, he did his Bachelor’s in economics from Presidency, Calcutta and his Master’s from JNU.
    - 14 Oct 19, 5:46pm -
  • ET View: It’s not so much Peter Handke, but the Nobel Prize that should be judged by its choice
    What has troubled some critics is that he is a public sympathiser of Yugoslavian and Serbian war criminal Slobodan Miloševic.
    - 11 Oct 19, 1:10pm -
  • ET View: Nobel Prize catches up with discovery that has fuelled the smartphone revolution
    John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
    - 9 Oct 19, 7:05pm -
  • View: Growth not a monetary policy problem, says RBI
    By refusing to cut rate by 35 bps or more the RBI wants to make it clear that liquidity availability is not the binding constraint on growth.
    - 4 Oct 19, 12:48pm -
  • Modi and Trump score from Howdy Modi, but what’s in it for India?
    For Trump, Howdy Modi was a golden opportunity to woo a vital segment of American voters.
    - 23 Sep 19, 1:10pm -
  • ET View: Corporate tax rate cut, the best reform so far
    A lower rate, comparable with Asian peers, and sans any exemptions, will make large Indian cos more competitive.
    - 20 Sep 19, 1:16pm -
  • ET View: Third dose of growth boosters: good but not good enough
    The export sops announced are welcome. But they would take time to kick in and boost exports.
    - 14 Sep 19, 6:42pm -
  • ET View: The Moon is not made of insta-cheese
    Indian Space Research Organisation will analyse the mishap to identify what went wrong and rectify the defect that caused it.
    - 7 Sep 19, 1:27pm -
  • ET View: India needs large banks
    It is in the interest of the Indian economy to have large banks that can lend to large companies, given the greater segmentation of credit now.
    - 30 Aug 19, 8:10pm -
  • ET View: Jalan Panel does a fine balancing job
    Essentially, the committee has decided to keep the RBI’s revaluation reserves out of funds that can be used for transfer to any other account.
    - 26 Aug 19, 10:36pm -
  • ET view: Welcome booster package for the economy
    The reform of taxman-taxpayer interface, deploying technology and eliminating direct contact, is most welcome.
    - 23 Aug 19, 11:32pm -
  • ET View: India must reiterate its status as a 'responsible' nuclear state
    While Singh reiterated India's continuation of the 'no first use' policy, Singh's comment comes at a time when the Indian government has been seen to conduct 'radical' moves.
    - 16 Aug 19, 5:02pm -
  • View: A mellower Modi on Independence Day
    The most notable feature of Narendra Modi’s sixth speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort is an absence: an enemy to attack.
    - 15 Aug 19, 11:26am -
  • ET View: Congress dumps Rahul Gandhi
    Sonia Gandhi values counsel, and patient survival informs her action, rather than impetuous entitlement.
    - 11 Aug 19, 1:09pm -
  • ET View: 3 reasons for RBI's 35 bps rate cut
    RBI shares the general concern about slowing growth and would like to do its bit to lift spirits and get the economy moving.
    - 7 Aug 19, 2:30pm -

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