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Bees and drones give wings to farmers

Areas where drones are making their presence felt include seed propagation, pesticide spraying, yield prediction, land records, insurance assessment, and crop monitoring

Upbeat mood in India decoupled from pessimism in rich countries

To combat the cost of living crisis, the central banks of most countries have raised interest rates and curbed excess money supply

Valuation claim must be backed by evidence

The National Commission observed that even though the builder had disputed Naik's valuation, the latter had failed to produce any evidence to support his valuation claim

The case for structural financial deglobalisation

Attempting to minimise the costs of their Faustian bargain, emerging-economy policymakers have pinned their hopes on international coordination of monetary policy

Climate responsibility

India should assert the principles of liability and fairness as the basis for climate action

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Retreating on home turf: Pakistan Army is staring at defeat

When the Pakistani army goes to the media complaining about a politician it fears and talks about being maligned and defamed, you know that its politics has taken a historic turn

Needed: A shoulder to cry on

An ad agency-client relationship is increasingly no longer about client service, but about client servility

BJP's confident despite infighting

Sniping at the senior leadership of the party has reached a new high in the BJP in Karnataka. For the moment, there is a truce, but the party knows the damage it could do ahead of the polls

The contested terrains of lit fests

Literature festivals aren't truly inclusive, but even so, they offer significant opportunities for networking that people can't afford to lose out on

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Arvind Kejriwal's radical transformation

Kejriwal may have shrewdly given up his secular positions, but he is no Hindutva hero. He has simply been able to sense which way the wind is blowing

Bailouts and balances: Tough choices ahead for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's IMF rescue plan has geopolitical repercussions. The Island nation has entered a difficult terrain with China's expansionist interests and India and Japan's security concerns

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CCP Meet: Big Hu, Small Hu and the who's who

Here's what we have learnt about China's emerging trajectory and ideology under Xi Jinping from observing the events before and after the Party Congress

The overvalued rupee: Managing exchange rate volatility and forex reserves

Since the 1950s, a cocktail of partisan domestic interests has resulted in the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian government favouring an overvalued rupee

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Corporate insolvency: Rethinking irregular transactions

So far 786 applications have been filed to recover over Rs 2.2 trillion allegedly lost through irregular transactions. Retrieving this needs a law, policy and regulatory focus

Not a pre-election Budget, please!

The forthcoming Budget should plan a faster fiscal deficit reduction, instead of embarking on a spending spree

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