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Every year, in the weeks before Diwali, sweet shops, spice sellers and dry-fruit traders do brisk business. Every year, a predictable number of us fall ill, and we blame it on ‘season change’. This year, Maharashtra's food...
What began as a logistical reshuffle by the Adani group quickly transformed into a full-blown infrastructure dispute, with such a fierce and unified pushback by international airlines that the ministry of civil aviation (aviation ministry)...
In 2016, when the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Bankruptcy Code) was seen as the answer to the humungous bad loans problem of Indian banks, Sanjeev Gupta arrived from Britain as a saviour of bankrupt companies. Fortunately for us, his...
GenZ has captured India’s imagination and has had quite a year. The youth protests over examination irregularities, that began in Delhi and spread across the country, have focused attention on issues of education, jobs and...
Two heartening developments suggest an irreversible change is under way: Indians are finally waking up to how much of what they eat is not what it is claimed to be. It doesn't matter whether the source is a multinational brand, a...
The Ganesh Chathurti long weekend, when Mumbai virtually stops working, saw a flurry of activity at India’s most storied business house as well as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). On the face of it, RBI issued a simple regulatory...
Even as I write this, somewhere in an Indian courtroom, a lawyer is asking a judge to silence a man who doesn't exist. In the US, he is called John Doe; In India, Ashok Kumar— a placeholder for an anonymous person who has not yet...
Sashidhar Jagdishan ended up doing two things his high-profile predecessor, Aditya Puri, successfully avoided for 26 years: a merger with Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (HDFC Ltd), the illustrious parent, and running a...
Last week brought a familiar Indian story dressed in a fresh set of numbers: an institution funded by the taxpayer treats its biggest defaulters with far more discretion than it shows an ordinary depositor who is late in updating ...
SY Quraishi insists his book is not a memoir. He is right; it is even better. Traditional autobiographies of public men in India tend to follow a predictable arc: hardship, struggle, ascent, vindication. Instead, Mr Quraishi offers a...
The impending exit of N Chandrasekaran (Chandra) as chairman of Tata Sons, takes us back, once again, to 1991, the year when Ratan Tata took charge of the Tata group and irrevocably transformed it from the days of his illustrious...
What is inside your food packet and, more importantly, what is not clearly indicated on its front, is now before the Supreme Court. A public interest petition (W.P.(C) No. 437/2024), filed by ‘3S and Our Health Society’ in 2024...