Author
Minhaz Merchant is the biographer of Rajiv Gandhi and Aditya Birla and author of The New Clash of Civilizations (Rupa, 2014). He is founder of Sterling Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. which was acquired by the Indian Express group
The essence of the IBC is speed. The bankruptcy code mandates a 270-day deadline for resolving insolvency cases. But the IBC had not accounted for the ingenuity – more accurately, cussedness – of Indian promoters
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Few would have thought that India’s pioneering private airline would end up as a de facto nationalised airline, its future in the hands of PSU banks
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Less bureaucracy in granting patents and fewer votaries of pseudo-science will help India occupy its rightful place at the high table of global science
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Over the next decade the country has a breakthrough opportunity to unshackle itself from the chains that have bound it, economically and socially, for far too long.
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Many observers, including Bill Gates, will be watching closely as India provides free universal healthcare to its most medically under-served citizens
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China’s tech giant, is not the only setback Beijing is likely to suffer
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Many of the government’s regulations on drug pricing and real estate transactions through the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act are necessary and serve the public interest.
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Speed and clarity are of the essence if the IBC is to live up to its promise of cleaning up bank balance sheets
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A fine balance will need to be maintained between pricing and costs to ensure the industry returns to profit and lives up to its potential as the world’s third largest market in the next decade
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India has already reduced its imports from Iran to appease Washington but bringing them down to zero is impossible
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