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The Centre's last big moves to reform agriculture were rolled back. Getting Indian states to experiment with structural change, as a new draft policy sets out to do, is now worth a try. It may help soften farmer resistance to market orientation.

The purpose of an official Bitcoin reserve proposed by the US president-elect is unclear. Perhaps it's a stand-in for gold. But Bitcoin's launch aim was to supplant all manipulable currencies. Hence, the irony of Trump's embrace.

As this year's Nobel prize winners' work shows, institutions matter to chances of prosperity. While these may have let people down, the solution is to reform them, not blow them up. It's too risky for other nations to be inspired by Trump's approach.

The 46th president laid the groundwork for US exceptionalism lasting many years, perhaps even decades, after his administration has long ended.

The carnivalesque cryptocurrency bull run has confounded crypto-sceptics. Donald Trump's support has played a key role, as also Bitcoin being touted as digital gold, but a crypto mania fanned by politicians could result in mishaps.

India raised and then lowered import tariffs on apples from the US, exposing local apple growers to policy instability. Their interests shouldn't be collateral damage in a game of top-level diplomacy. Let's align trade policy in domestic favour and . ...

Rising instances of data breaches across the online ecosystem make it imperative that the privacy shield passed by Parliament is quickly put in place. Even after the awaited rules are notified, it'll be a while before citizens benefit.

From Europe's rise to that of America and then others, the success script has been familiar. Innovation in generating value has mattered, but power has largely been achieved so far by making the most of geopolitical upheavals.

It's welcome that this retiral fund plans to enable ATM withdrawals as part of an upgrade plan billed as EPFO 3.0, with added flexibility options, but it urgently needs to relieve its pensioners waiting for a Supreme Court order to be implemented in ...

Switzerland's withdrawal of the most favoured nation status given to India under a tax agreement, in response to an Indian Supreme Court ruling, is a blow to investment ties. We may need some damage control.