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New Year, Richer Fare

By Inderjit Badhwar Our first issue of 2021, marking the seventh eventful year of our publication in its current avatar, is laden with a wealth of original, information-packed interviews, analyses...

Bank NPAs: The new AMC rope trick

A bankers’ panel is working on faster resolution of stressed assets in public sector banks. The new concept will, they claim, help resolve the problem of large bad loans.

After Vodafone, Cairn win against retrospective taxation puts India in a corner

India’s retroactive tax demands have come back to haunt the government, with the Permanent Court of Arbitration awarding damages of $1.2 billion plus interest and costs to oil and gas explorer Cairn. What options does India have?

Funding lawsuits: For a piece of justice

According to the new concept, financiers pay legal fees and other costs of commercial lawsuits, arbitration or shareholder disputes, and in return, get a share of the award from a settlement or a win.

India: Democracy or Mobocracy?

As protests subsume India, the above question is being increasingly asked. While we are a democracy, we haven’t got it right as critics are put in detention, dissent silenced and majoritarian tactics used.

Vaccinating India’s Billions: A Gargantuan Task

As the centre gears up to vaccinate Indians for Covid-19, it has to keep in mind a number of parameters and give it to those who need it the most. India’s cases are among the lowest and the drive could see it on top of the game.

Ensuring Data Residency and Portability

Governments around the world have been trying to regularise it so that local laws may apply, but this is proving elusive in the absence of enforceable cross-border legal agreements.

FDI in banking can revitalise sector

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s suggestion that foreign investment be allowed in the beleaguered banking sector is just the help it needs. It will boost the economy and lead to efficient use of resources.

CCTV cameras in police stations: SC order in right spirit but may not work on ground

The apex court order to have CCTVs in the centres may be an attempt to check police brutality, but it is not practical as torture often takes place in barracks, quarters and safe houses away from cameras.

Farmer revolt: What the economists say

The authors of the letter posit five fundamental reasons why these three Acts, tied together by the government, are deeply detrimental in their repercussion on the small farmers of India. I reproduce below excerpts of these arguments:

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