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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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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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Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Musk’s golden touch is on the line. Tesla needs him to do what he does best — sell a pen

Chinese chatter says Trump tariffs will make India turn to China and Russia

Economy

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Akanksha Mishra -
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Defence

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

Javaria Rana -
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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