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Fighting digital financial fraud: India needs new laws to reach global standards

New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Since November last year, the Indian government, along with regulators, banks, and other entities in the financial sector, appear to be taking a more proactive stance in combatin... Read More


Zomato lands in a sweet spot after remarkable recovery

New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Food-delivery service Zomato actually has several other revenue streams and significant 'other Income'. While the company has done well to tighten operations to improve margins, ... Read More


India's AI boom could exceed Satya Nadella's expectations

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Satya Nadella's commitment to skilling up two million Indians in tier-2 and tier -3 towns to work with artificial intelligence technologies is one of many signs that India could o... Read More


PM Modi must forget the past, revive farm reforms; it's the only way to repair rural economy

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ambitious goal of doubling farmers' incomes, a committee was set up in April 2016 to delve into the feasibility of this target. Ov... Read More


India's fintech entrepreneurs must accept that they are not above the law of the land

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- On Monday, soon after the regulatory action against Paytm Payments Bank, a few entrepreneurs of new-age companies wrote to the finance minister and to the Reserve Bank of India go... Read More


Lacklustre capex by PSUs is blunting government's growth stimulus

New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- The Narendra Modi government's strategy for supporting growth has been to increase capital expenditure through its budget in the hope that the infrastructure created would nudge t... Read More


New law on prompt p​ayment for supplies will help MSMEs, but it falls short

New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- A new law derecognising as an expense any payment companies owe to registered micro, small or medium enterprises beyond 45 days of receiving goods or services will push them to ma... Read More


Paytm fiasco: A question mark over India's acclaimed fintech industry

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- It is rare in India's regulatory history for a financial sector firm to be in the line of fire of the regulator for persistent non-compliances and continued supervisory concerns. ... Read More


The big tax growth the finance minister spoke of isn't reflecting in the interim budget's estimates

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- In her interim budget for FY25, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman took credit for the surge seen in direct tax collections (mainly taxes on personal and corporate incomes) over ... Read More


Sitharaman delivers a low-decibel, pitch-perfect interim budget

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- With three politically critical states of the Hindi belt in its bag, its key election promise-a Ram temple in Ayodhya-delivered, and the Opposition alliance suffering debilitating... Read More