Friday, 1 July, 2022
TopicBloomberg Opinion

Topic: Bloomberg Opinion

Battleground for tobacco control is in emerging markets like India

David Fickling -
WTO has upheld Australia’s plain-packaging laws. But emerging markets may still deliver a new generation of addicts.

Your germ-killing kitchen soap may be doing you more harm than good

Faye Flam -
While bacteria were once equated with causing illness, it’s now understood there are some dangerous species, while others are beneficial

GM foods are safe. We don’t need labels with smiley faces to sell them

Mary Duenwald -
There’s no need to dress up the labels to suggest that genetic modification makes foods somehow better. That risks misleading the public.

A fifth of public sector banks’ assets may go bad in a year

Andy Mukherjee -
This cycle is unlikely to start reversing till the new bankruptcy law grows up a little.

Facebook & Google aim to skip ad agencies, but are still courting them. Here’s why

Alex Webb -
It’s important for Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to not be seen as too dominant, for fear of riling the regulators.

Over 60% of the plastic in our oceans came from eight Asian nations

Adam Minter -
The vast majority of Asia's newly minted consumer classes lack access to garbage collection, modern landfills and incineration.

Three kids, a flute and the Singapore-India feud

Andy Mukherjee -
A minor domestic quarrel has turned into a major court battle over who gets to trade the benchmark Indian index.

New video replay technology is taking football to a higher standard in the World Cup

Leonid Bershidsky -
The introduction of Video-Assisted Referees, know as VAR, to the World Cup for the first time this year is making players work harder on fair-play competition.

Want to save the planet? Take carbon out of the air

Noah Smith -
Deep decarbonisation can reduce carbon emissions by large amounts, but is extremely expensive, and no one is doing it yet.

Trump’s trade war has given protectionists an alibi, and this can cost India dear

Mihir Sharma -
The truth is that India needs trade with America, but officials have been remarkably cavalier about the diplomacy required to keep it going.
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BJP, Modi’s ‘total politics’ stems from insecurity. They still don’t rule the power elite

Dilip Mandal -
Yogendra Yadav is wrong. BJP might have a hegemonic position in politics and economy, but it's not the same in moral and intellectual spaces.
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Economy

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RBI intervenes with multi-pronged strategy in battle against rupee fall

Subhadip Sircar -
The Reserve Bank’s challenges include crashes in forward dollar premiums to rising open interest in futures that adds to pressure on the currency.

Defence

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‘Major milestone’: India conducts maiden flight of unmanned aircraft demonstrator

Snehesh Alex Philip -
DRDO calls flight a significant step towards self-reliance in defence technologies; Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauds achievement, says ‘it paves way for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in critical military systems’.

National Interest

With Agnipath, Modi govt’s shock & awe doctrine may have misfired a vital reform, yet again

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi govt's biggest flaw has been its disinclination to accept limitations of electoral majorities. This ruined land acquisition and farm reform, stalled labour codes.

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