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WPL has set the stage, now the playfield needs to get bigger: Mithali Raj

Hammering boundaries: Meet Mithali Raj, former captain, Indian women's cricket team

Why Irdai's flexible rules are significant for insurance industry

By removing the limit for agents, the regulator has provided insurers greater scope to build their businesses

International arbitration in India: One step forward with new rules

The Bar Council's latest rules go a long way but there are some major hurdles to India's evolution as a global arbitral centre

Future bets: LIC to Axis Bank, here're 10 bright spots to keep an eye on

The third-quarter financials didn't excite market watchers. But equity investors can still make money if they invest in the right stocks

Here's why India's gig workforce is still outside purview of basic benefits

The Social Security Code of 2020 offered guidelines to companies for gig work

India's start-up story remains robust

The ecosystem would experience rationalisation of valuations in the current period, with funding expected to gradually increase from Q3 2023-24

Tamil Nadu's Hosur belt switches on as hub for EVs, ancillary units

Tamil Nadu is pulling out the stops to develop this north-western region of the state as a centre for the EV industry

Rahul Gandhi's expulsion: A turning point in politics

Bharat Bhushan writes: The disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament can reinforce the Congress party's newfound commitment to the path of political struggle by hitting the streets

BJP's three-variable challenge: What will it drop to ensure victory?

A six per cent increase in the Congress share will probably not get it anywhere, but a similar decline in the BJP's vote share could end its majority, writes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan

Banking on a systems upgrade: What more could we expect going ahead

The cautionary tale from the Block Inc debacle is that increasing digitisation of retail financial services in India has raised the threat levels of frauds

Govt seeks to fill up posts with hires from non-IAS pool, sparks debate

The decision to extend the application date for head of the competition watchdog underlines the old debate over reserving regulatory heads exclusively for administrative service officers

India faces basic contradiction in drafting policies for renewables sector

Frequent changes in rules governing domestic equipment use in projects is slowing capacity addition

Women, villages and the less affluent drive internet growth in rural India

The message from Nielsen's latest India Internet Report is that media planners need to get out of the reach game and get more creative to leverage the new type of audiences coming online

Banking crisis: It's time for a relook at funding ecosystem for start-ups

The crisis in global banking has unsettled the Indian start-up ecosystem and raised afresh the old question of overdependence on offshore investors

The perfect moment for innovation or 'anusandhan' is now: Six reasons

Innovation can be a sustainable wealth creator for nations

DMRC-RInfra controversy shows potential glitches in framing PPP contracts

The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee has cleared 79 projects with a total project cost of Rs 227,268.1 crore from FY15 to FY23, noted the latest Economic Survey

A labour hurdle to South Korean auto major Hyundai's expansion in India

Hyundai's aim to boost production by buying General Motors' Talegaon plant runs up against a two-year-old labour dispute

Statsguru: Six charts explain India's changing energy landscape

The industrial sector is the biggest consumer of electricity and accounted for 41 per cent of the 1,296,300 gigawatt hours of electricity consumed in India in 2021-22

States' capital budgets: Spending, classification can be variable exercise

Most of the other major states, including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Telangana and Haryana, hew close to either extreme

From Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh, the 'greening' of investor summits

Renewable power project proposals are beginning to make their presence felt in state investment meets