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Just under a year ago, I reported (Moneylife Exclusive: Serial Fraudster Dinesh Dalmia Strikes Again: Dupes Lenders of Nearly Rs200 Crore) that Dinesh Dalmia, serial fraudster and founder of the now-defunct DSQ Software group, had...

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Sucheta Dalal 25 Apr 2025
Air travel remains unrivalled as the preferred mode of long-distance transportation globally, with 4.7bn (billion) passenger trips logged in 2023, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).    Its allure...

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Sucheta Dalal 17 Apr 2025
At the grandly titled Start-up Mahakumbh last week, Union minister for commerce and industry Piyush Goyal delivered yet another controversial speech—one that swiftly turned into a lightning rod for criticism. This was not his first...

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Sucheta Dalal 11 Apr 2025
Brazen price manipulation, stock cornering, fabricated financial disclosures and social media influencers fuelling pump-&-dump schemes—this is the alarming new reality of India's capital markets. A growing network of...

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Sucheta Dalal 04 Apr 2025
Three months into his tenure as the 26th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Sanjay Malhotra delivered a hard-hitting speech at the annual conference of bank ombudsmen, on 17th March. His words raised hopes of a much-needed...

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Sucheta Dalal 28 Mar 2025
India is on the rise as a global tourism powerhouse. A McKinsey report says that outbound Indian tourism is already a ‘vital source market for global tourism’ and is expected to double by 2030. Recognising this, many countries...

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Sucheta Dalal 21 Mar 2025
The legal framework surrounding fair comment, influence-peddling, defamation and fraud in social media interactions is still evolving. As always, those exploiting social media’s vast reach for business gains are ahead of regulators...

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Sucheta Dalal 13 Mar 2025
It is Tuhin Kanta Pandey’s first day as chairman of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as I write this column and he is already facing a storm. His predecessor, Madhabi Puri Buch, and three whole-time members (WTMs)...

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Sucheta Dalal 07 Mar 2025
This is not a Valentine Day gift that depositors of New India Cooperative Bank (NICB), founded by the late firebrand socialist leader and later defence minister, George Fernandes, had expected. On 14th February, they found themselves...

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Sucheta Dalal 28 Feb 2025
India’s megacities—Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune—are all suffocating under the weight of their own success. Poor infrastructure, unplanned development, inadequate roads, crumbling public transport,...

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Sucheta Dalal 14 Feb 2025
When aiming to protect investors by eliminating fraudsters, what approach should one take? Should the focus be on pursuing the crooks, or imposing additional regulations and tracking requirements on legal, registered intermediaries...

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Sucheta Dalal 07 Feb 2025
As India gears up for the Union Budget on 1st February, the lofty slogans and promises of ‘Viksit Bharat’ (developed India) are looking increasingly hollow. After a decade of ‘rapid progress,’ the middle class,...

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Sucheta Dalal 24 Jan 2025