Put off the Olympics (Livemint)

This sports extravaganza, originally scheduled for the summer of 2020, has already been postponed once. Tokyo will be well advised to push i...

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A redux of the Linux movement in open source pharma (Livemint)

  Ajit Ranade Thirty years ago, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki put out a message on a bulletin board, “i am doing a (fr...

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As the second Covid wave hits hard, 1918 Spanish flu offers some lessons (Livemint)

Shashi Shekhar Why didn’t the political class do anything when there was a ‘lean period’ during the pandemic? There is an old saying: “If th...

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Monsoon relief (Livemint)

At a time when our farm sector is going through turmoil, we have a spot of good news on the monsoon front. Skymet, a private meteorological ...

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Equity MF U-Turn (Livemint)

The losing streak has finally snapped. After eight straight months of net outflows, equity mutual funds saw net inflows of ₹9,115 crore in M...

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Internet-first brands are fast gaining traction (Livemint)

Shuchi Bansal March witnessed frenetic action from internet-first brands. Bewakoof.com, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand of multi-category f...

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Cigar, or pancake, from someone out there (Livemint)

Dilip D'Souza One of the truly stimulating things about writing this column is that periodically I need to revisit an earlier effort. It...

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Content on OTTs: Between a rock and a hard place (Livemint)

Shuchi Bansal For the last six months, a Mumbai-based producer was deeply invested in putting together proposals for two web shows, to be ai...

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Beware of taxes when buying bonus preference shares (Livemint)

Gautam Nayak Very often, one may find certain preference shares being traded in the stock markets at fairly attractive yields and, given the...

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Why rejection rate of insurance death claims is very low (Livemint)

One key reason why people hesitate to buy life insurance in India is, some say, because of the low death claim payments in the sector. Nothi...

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New, woke HUL: changing buyer perception on beauty Clichés? (Livemint)

Shuchi Bansal At the end of January, when Sanjiv Mehta, chairman and managing director of Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), was asked about the ...

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Artificial Intelligence: The great oxymoron of our times (Livemint)

An AI cyber-cop crackdown on chess conversations for racism tells us what we should have known all along: that algorithms created by fallibl...

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Decoding CBDT’s clarification on non-residents (Livemint)

Gautam Nayak Many non-residents were forced to remain in India during covid and could not travel back to their home countries due to the abs...

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A positive step forward in the regulation of fantasy sports (Livemint)

Arun Prabhu , Amrit Mathur Niti Aayog’s draft guiding principles on their regulation have the potential to drive innovation and growth of th...

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The tangled balls of untruths that too many Indians harbour (Livemint)

Anurag Behar The May heat had penetrated the thick stone walls and double-height ceiling, melting all restraint. The tale telling began with...

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Stability in focus (Livemint)

While the covid crisis is widely expected to leave our economy scarred in various ways, one big question is whether it would also leave us w...

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For Biden to solve inequality, he’ll need good Wi-Fi (Livemint)

Determining precisely who in the country has internet and who doesn’t would greatly improve upon the scattershot approach employed thus far,...

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The politics of Covid-19 just got even more hellish (Livemint)

Tyler Cowen , Bloomberg New strains of the virus mean the world is about to face some of the most difficult trade-offs yet A new strain of C...

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Leadership is often about getting out of your own way (Livemint)

Jeffrey Pfeffer , M. Muneer Whenever people make statements about wanting to meaningfully change the trajectory of their lives, organisation...

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