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February 2, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Budget 2018: Game-Changing Reform for Bharat; a Major Impetus to Rural Economy

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, presenting the last full budget of Modi government before it goes to polls in May next year, announced a game-changing health insurance scheme to 10...

February 1, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Economy

Debt: Good for Banks, Bad for Individuals or Vice Versa?

Debt is seen as a financial necessity and accounting treatment in today’s world. But the old worldly wisdom of living within one’s means is challenged by debt, persuading Tarun...

January 25, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

Is the Stock Market Overvalued?

There are various metrics to measure the value of a stock market. The most common or popular is Earning per share, or EPS, for short. That one metric gives...

January 18, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy, Science & Technology

Bitcoin: Every New Bubble is the Same Old Story

Bitcoin is a virtual currency, which is generated through a mathematical formula by a computer software at regular time intervals. By 2040, 21 million bitcoins would be generated, explains...

January 15, 2018
Dr. Navodita Pande
Advocacy, Economy

Will the Union Budget Respond to the Demand of the Civil Society for a Universal Pension Scheme?

The letter written on behalf of the Pension Parishad, a network of 100 civil society organisations in it, is in response to recent reports indicating that the Centre was...

January 4, 2018
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

Out of the Box Ideas to Kick-start the Economy

Tarun offers a few out of the box ideas to kick-start the Indian economy, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. The economy is going well, right? After...

December 31, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

The Year is Seventeen, Going onto Eighteen!

Tarun takes a stock of the business and economy, in the past year, in his write-up, as part of the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. Writing a year-end...

December 21, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy

Trends in Indian Consumption and Retail

As the consumer moves towards more evolved and emotional buying, the need for finance options, both for consumption, as well as high returns on savings would grow more than...

December 2, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism, Multiculturalism

Salad Bowl and Americanism

American writers of the Indian sub-continent are women. They are Mary Anne Mohan Raj, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan’s important diasporic writer. In their writings, what...

November 30, 2017
Tarun Gupta
Business, Economy, History & Culture

Digitisation: Is it a Boon or Bane?

Money was a simple sack of grains in olden times when barter was used. As the economies grew larger and more complex, the need arose for something, which could...

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