Policy Rules

Reaching new policy heights: Mission Karmayogi to reshape bureaucracy

Distrust has emerged as a major barrier in policymaking across India, deeply rooted in the colonial legacy of governance

India's foreign policy dilemma: Balancing global ambitions & domestic needs

India's growing global role clashes with its domestic challenges. Navigating foreign policy requires a balance between global responsibilities and the imperative of social and economic development

A short report card

Three successes and two failures of policy in the last five years

Why policies fail

Policymaking is not an easy job, and State Capability in India sheds light on the complexities of this task

Chatroom: DTA units can pay EOU in foreign currency, says expert

TNC Rajagopalan answers to SME queries related to GST, export and import matters

RBI fines Vakrangee Rs 1.76 cr for violating order on ATM deployment goals

Central bank had first issued show-cause; latest action follows company's response to the notice

LIC inaugurates 'Digi Zone' to sell insurance policies online

Customers can use LIC's Digi Zone to buy policies online

Clarity in policies, robust talent supply to spur Indian gaming biz: Nazara

Speaking at the GATO 2020, Nazara Technologies CEO Manish Agarwal said a nationwide gaming policy will help drive more investments in the gaming segment

India can be AI hub, policy set-up for tech can spur growth: Chandrasekaran

He said if India is able to solve the problems using AI, then the solutions can spread to developing as well as developed nations

Industry lauds as India's draft rules for drones enter official gazette

Drone firms say the step may encourage an entire supply chain based on these machines, urges faster implementation of the process

Mihir S Sharma: Ignoring India's problems

Budget set out to address only the problems the govt itself caused, not the ones holding India back

Mihir S Sharma: A big, destructive bang

Post-demonetisation, this government's reputation for decision-making and implementation lies in tatters

Mihir S Sharma: The GDP wheeze

The costs of improving Delhi's air are known, and GDP accounts for them. But not the benefits

Mihir S Sharma: How to create peace

It's when relations are toughest that it becomes most important to see if economic relations with Pakistan can be enhanced

Mihir S Sharma: Unwelcome in India

The government is going out of its way to make foreign investment feel unwanted and insecure

Mihir S Sharma: Truth from the ramparts

Prime ministers have never really taken Indians into confidence about why and what policy reforms they intend

Mihir S Sharma: The war on 'experts'

Across the world, economists and other experts are now distrusted - and their intellectual pliability doesn't help

Mihir S Sharma: India, a Union of economic models

What looking closely at the four big states going to the polls reveals about the challenges facing policy-making in Delhi