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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicBloomberg Opinion

Topic: Bloomberg Opinion

India may finally race forward in electric cars

Modi govt's new target of ensuring that 30% of all vehicles be electric by 2030 is a surprising & refreshing change.

What we saw was only a trailer of India’s assault on RBI’s autonomy. The worst is yet to come

Letting weak, unreformed banks back into the lending game will be just the start of a steady erosion of the central bank’s disciplining power.

China’s shadow banking may be a lot bigger than India’s, but India’s is too big to fail

The Indian government can’t afford to see the industry stumble.

A little humility from the Communist Party will serve China well

By taking all the credit for the country’s stunning economic rise, the Communist Party is threatening its continued prosperity.

No kidding, you really are slowly turning into your parents

Studies show humans become more like their biological parents & other family members as they get older.

China faces its eternal dilemma again: Push growth or cut debt?

China’s top leaders meet this week in Beijing to set economic policy objectives for the coming year. The central question is whether they will...

Lawsuits against Johnson&Johnson aren’t going away

J&J faces major liability risk from lawsuits over a possible link between asbestos in its talc products and cancer.

India’s GDP growth depends on which party was in power & under which party it was measured

Investors & analysts must now reckon with politicisation of data at the very time they contend with deteriorating relationship between govt & RBI.

Yes Bank’s Rana Kapoor is playing a dangerous funding game with market money

Yes Bank’s stock has sunk 50 per cent in just three months.

The easiest way to fix Facebook is to break it up

It is a monopoly, having either bought or crushed most potential competitors

On Camera

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.