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TopicGrowth

Topic: Growth

Different but similar — fungi, whales, trees, humans grow the same way, study suggests

Pratik Pawar -
The study, conducted by researchers at ICTA-UAB in Barcelona, finds that growth, not metabolism, is the common pattern that ties all complex life together.

Pratap Mehta on Modi’s 100 days, Mahesh Vyas on jobs in Kashmir, and how to revive growth

Pia Krishnankutty -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Power to water: If India wants to fulfil economic goals, it needs better infrastructure

Partha Mukhopadhyay -
For too long, governments have focused on making money from infrastructure rather than seeing it as a service that can power growth.

New Zealand well-being budget isn’t a new idea, India’s been there and done that already

Nitin Pai -
Excellent marketing apart, there's nothing new in Jacinda Ardern's government prioritising social welfare spending.

Ex-IAS officer’s take on 6 key economic challenges new Modi govt faces

Anil Swarup -
The new Modi government must go beyond statements and take concrete action on ground to address the economic challenges.

Who says rate moves need to be 25bps? Not Shaktikanta Das

Vrishti Beniwal -
RBI's Shaktikanta Das' suggestion on bigger interest-rate moves comes as markets see one more rate cut to boost growth in the $2.6 trillion economy amid risks from abroad.

Narendra Modi’s junking of the economy is like Nero fiddling while Rome burned

Shivam Vij -
The Indian economy cannot afford a slowdown, but the Modi government is not even accepting that there’s a problem.

India needs big, wealthy industries, not more reports pitting poor against rich

Kanchan Gupta -
It is fashionable to be derisive of big industries and industrialists but what is overlooked is that they sustain smaller businesses, generate jobs.

This is what the world’s CEOs think about the global outlook

Sean Fleming -
Far more CEOs expect growth to improve than anticipate it falling back.

Why RBI must cut interest rates in its next monetary policy panel meet

Ila Patnaik -
With no upswing in output growth and low consumer price inflation, the stage is set for cutting interest rates.
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Opinion

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

Bishwajit Bhattacharyya -
The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

The long arc of rural employment—from welfare to rights to rationing

Muslim objections to Vande Mataram are about faith, not rejection of India

Economy

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

Keshav Padmanabhan -
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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