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At a closed-door training workshop for BJP parliamentarians, prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi urged his party members to spread awareness about the new gaming legislation which has been presented as a welfare measure. The Promotion and...
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi promised ‘next-generation’ GST (goods and services tax) reforms as a Diwali gift to India, triggering hopes of reduction and rationalisation of the tax into two primary slabs and an overall...
“Every decision of Justice Sureshwar Thakur that came up to the Supreme Court was overturned…fortunately, he has retired.” This brutal comment from chief justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai last week, was in connection with...
President Trump’s 50% tariff threat on Indian exports in mid-2025 sent shockwaves through Indian’s power elite. Policy-makers, business leaders and economists say it is a wake-up call: India must act decisively—or risk...
One step forward, two steps back—that’s how depositor protection feels at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under its 26th governor, Sanjay Malhotra. While financial inclusion is a government objective, millions of depositors...
After a decade of studious indifference to financial recklessness, defaults and allegations of financial jugglery, the Anil Ambani group is finally in the enforcement directorate's (ED) crosshairs. Early August saw the ED summon top...
In India, market scandals often arrive in rapid succession, each new controversy burying the previous one. So, even as Jane Street, a US-based trading powerhouse faced regulatory heat for alleged manipulation and Viceroy Research launched...
Two important developments rocked domestic markets and captured the attention of global investors and regulators: the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI’s) dramatic crackdown on Jane Street, a US-based proprietary...
Ever since Vedanta listed in London, Anil Agarwal has carefully crafted an image of a self-made, resilient and socially-conscious leader who clawed his way up from scrap metal trading to helm a global mining empire. It is a seductive story...
On 3rd July, India’s capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), did something sensational. In the most stringent action ever, against a foreign trading firm, it barred Jane Street, the formidable...
A modest Rs25 lakh penalty imposed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) last week triggered a small storm on social media. Why should BSE walk away with a token fine of a serious violation...
Vijay Mallya is a perfect example of the government scoring a self-goal in its attempt to showcase the power of its newly minted Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) of 2016. The flamboyant ‘King of Good Times’, who bought...