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Big pharma: Here's why India's drug industry needs a major overhaul

The latest drug recalls just add to a long line of scandals that have tainted the pharma sector of India

Why disqualifying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi doesn't help PM Modi

In other words, no council of BJP elders appears to have met in New Delhi last week and decided Gandhi had become so great of a threat that he needed to be driven out of Parliament

How future with lower Covid death rate seems like a worthy investment

Unfortunately, turning nasal vaccines into reality has a long way to go. The same is true for any newer approach to combatting Covid

How CO2 removal can take us back to ideal state of pre-industrial era

There are good reasons for governments to utilize novel CDR methods at the same time as expanding established land-based carbon capture and storage

Ugly truth of layoffs: Firms invest huge resources to rebuild workforce

'Understaffing isn't always a result of management short-sightedness'

China has painted itself into a semiconductor corner behind Taiwan, S.Korea

For all intents and purposes, China has failed to achieve its semiconductor goals, and those tasked with realising them are being brought to account

Port City Colombo: The great Chinese white elephant of Sri Lanka

The project is envisioned as a playground for the rich who would earn in dollars and keep all of it

Inflation hedges are getting harder for individual investors to find

If U.S. policy makers follow through on their aggressive tightening rhetoric, we could be in for some testing times

The street has spoken in Sri Lanka: the Rajapaksa brothers have to go

The government prioritized servicing external debt rather than ensuring it could provide for its people

Russia-Ukraine war: Pleas to stop buying Russian oil and gas go unheeded

Washington and Brussels have carved out loopholes big enough for an oil tanker in their current sanctions policy, allowing the trade to continue.

Russia-Ukraine war: Economic power is the West's best weapon against Putin

Russia's onslaught has been anticipated for months

Alibaba has a much bigger problem than the crackdown on technology

Alibaba's struggle is borne out in the numbers. Revenue for the three months to December climbed just 10%, compared with 29% growth the prior period

Omicron may be uncertain, but inflation is a sure thing for economies

Omicron raises questions about the strength of demand in the event lockdowns are renewed and people have to wait for a whole new vaccine.

Don't ban their Bitcoin: India's millennials pull crypto out of the shadows

Industry gains confidence that policy makers have been persuaded of benefits to the economy from blockchain-based innovation.

World's shift to renewable energy could pay the price for fuel crisis

Low prices, until recently, for energy of all types might have left consumers with too-rosy a picture of how much they will pay for fuel.

Power crunch, chip shortage, green goal: China's challenges are growing

State planners have to balance their industrial ambitions with focus on lowering energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Goodbye to the Maharaja: Air India sale signals less govt in commerce

The airline's privatisation is two decades late but Indian taxpayers ought to be relieved to have cut their losses.

For Indian junk bonds, it's love in the time of China's Evergrande crisis

For investors wary of China, looking at India makes sense but the extra dollars arrive with a cost.

Fintech's 'buy now, pay later' credit for kiranas is changing livelihoods

Even small shops can now access large and organised wholesalers, as they buy credit responsibly.

India wants to be the next Taiwan in chips, but its dream is misguided

Its government would be better off saving its money and luring more suitable partners in testing and assembly.