Best of BS Opinion: What's behind the bull run, can India be financial hub

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

On Saturday, the Indian Council of Medical Research set a deadline of August 15 for the Covid-19 vaccine that is being developed jointly with Bharat Biotech. Given that human trials, which potentially take months, have not begun, this is a remarkable demand, which the medical fraternity openly suggests has been written under government pressure. As the top edit points out here, the search for a vaccine should not compromise on trials because the costs of an error can be cataclysmic. On Sunday, GSTN, the IT infrastructure provider for the Goods and Service Tax, put out a rare