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The chicken-and-egg problem of NPCI shows what’s needed to improve its performance

Mandar Kagade -
NPCI is both the operator and infrastructure provider of IMPS and UPI, and does not have the structure to generate the right incentives.

Creating new winners

TN Ninan -
We can no longer argue simplistically that, if the government or public sector can’t do the job, call in the private sector.

The sub-seven reality

TN Ninan -
For India to return to sustained 7 percent growth, it will need serious reform of the kind not attempted so far.

RBI data isn’t enough to argue if demonetisation was a success or failure

Jagdish Bhagwati -
It's premature to decide whether demonetisation is a success or failure, write economists Jagdish Bhagwati, Vivek Dehejia and Pravin Krishna.

Staring into the hole

TN Ninan -
Loans given by banks during the boom years are torpedoing them, and we will all feel the ripple effects.

Maharashtra’s Rs 30,500 cr loan waiver is the latest ‘moral hazard’ in the name of farmers

Nikhil Rampal -
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has finally cleared a Rs 30,500 crore debt waiver for farmers, but has been told by the Union finance...

Our payments bank is more secure than PSU banks — Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma

ThePrint Team -
India's youngest billionaire spoke in Mumbai about taking on the big banks, Aadhaar, privacy and the NPA debate.
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Opinion

Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

+TFP Praveen Swami -
The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Women are missing from Chinese politics. CCP is a boys’ club

TTP is byproduct of Pakistan’s own policies. Attacking Afghanistan won’t solve crises at home

Economy

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Udit Bubna -
Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

Defence

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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