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India's new rules for data privacy may be more like China's than Europe's

The Indian government has junked the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with "a comprehensive legal framework"

Bangladesh economy outshone India, now it must learn from its neighbour

Bangladesh's per capita national income is now higher than that of India next door

Indian diaspora, global bankers may profit from New Delhi's dollar crunch

India isn't in the same boat as its South Asian neighbors, even though it's in the same choppy waters

Sooner or later, US recession will come knocking at India's tech-hub door

India's tech industry is ruling out a US recession. Or so you would think from Infosys Ltd.'s cheery forecast of 14 per cent to 16 per cent annual revenue growth

How Indian tutors are making millions off NEET, JEE aspirants' anxiety

The Indian test-prep market has always been about turning anxiety into cash. More than 1.5 million hopefuls scramble for a little over 100,000 medical and dentistry placements nationwide

As Adani prepares to bid for 5G, should Mukesh Ambani prepare for battle?

Just the threat that Adani might eventually come after the $2-per-month customer could see capital-starved Vodafone Idea buckle, in which case he could swoop in on it later

How data privacy, Razorpay became victims of Alt News vs Delhi Police fight

Alt News received money "through Razorpay from Pakistan, Syria, Australia, Singapore, and the UAE, which all require further investigation," a public prosecutor said

5 years of GST: Why the indirect tax regime may not see big-bang reforms

From July 1, 2017, a uniform tax on goods and services - marketed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "One Nation, One Tax, One Market" - replaced a bewildering array of local sales and entry levies

How Mukesh Ambani will divide his business empire to avoid dad's folly

Ambani's first-born, Akash, 30, will succeed him as chairman at India's No.1 wireless carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

The RBI is no fan of 'buy now, pay later' and it's wholly understandable

Last week, the Reserve Bank of India brought out its regulatory axe and hacked away at a popular path to small-ticket fintech loans

India's Aadhaar ID system delivers benefits but at risk of widespread fraud

Modi's new welfarism rests on Aadhaar. But if there are cracks in the edifice, they need to be acknowledged - not to frighten users away, but to make them more aware

DeFi can't hold a candle to the centuries-old trust-based system hawala

Decentralized finance needs to give up on its techno-anarchist utopia, and get more real and centralized. Otherwise DeFi lending will enter annals of finance as failure where hawala has been success

How Covid, lax controls, recklessness and a flawed founder sank Zilingo

Bose, a co-founder, lived the high life at company expense: When she wasn't showing up at Paris fashion week, she was shuttling off to New York for a meet-and-greet with a prospective client

Mukesh Ambani's consumer empire gets a cricket spin with IPL digital rights

The spoils from the digital rights for Indian Premier League cricket, snagged by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Viacom18 by dethroning Walt Disney & Co. for the next five years

RBI is getting its way on policy rates. But how long will this last?

It will be interesting to see if Shaktikanta Das can keep his political masters in good humor. Or if his relationship with the government - like that of his two predecessors - will also start to fray

Gautam Adani faces off against Kumar Mangalam Birla over cement in India

Kumar Mangalam Birla comes from old money, unlike Adani, a first-generation entrepreneur

Singapore Airlines' long-delayed flight to India finally ready for takeoff

Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong wants to pursue a multi-hub strategy as he expects India to be the third-largest aviation market after China and the US by the middle of the decade

With a chapati crisis brewing at home, can India afford to feed the world?

As global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius or more above pre-industrial levels, the country's chapati challenge is only going to become more urgent

Billionaires Adani, Ambani at a turning point in their rivalry in India

While both would like markets to reward them for scripting India's future in renewable energy, what's ticking for them right now is all the polluting stuff in short supply

Inflation: Why RBI should have paid more attention to detergent prices

Operating at magic price points is like running a high-school experiment in "titration," dripping a liquid of known properties into another of unknown concentration and stopping when the color changes