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Viewership for women’s sports has grown rapidly, with expectations that this year’s Women’s World Cup could have double the 1.12 billion viewers who watched the tournament in 2019.

Sports betting may be a good way to bridge gender pay gaps

3 min read . 01:20 AM IST

As digital devices have a high rate of obsolescence, free and instant access to the latest products is imperative. (AP)

Import licensing on its own is not an industrial policy

4 min read . 01:17 AM IST

Central bankers forgot Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Central bankers should ponder coin tossing odds and avoid golf

4 min read . 01:08 AM IST

Rate cuts unlikely as RBI trains guns on inflation

2 min read . 07 Aug 2023

Swiss bank relationships are undergoing a churn after the merger. (AP)

The UBS-Credit Suisse union has unsettled private banking

3 min read . 08 Aug 2023

The new law requires Data Fiduciaries to erase personal data as soon as it is reasonable to assume that the specified purpose for which it was collected is no longer being served.

Companies must work hard to ensure data protection

4 min read . 08 Aug 2023

Continued upside pressure on prices of cereals and pulses remains a point of stress. (Bloomberg)

Tricky query on inflation that everyone ducks

3 min read . 07 Aug 2023

A protest organized by the Delhi Meitei Coordinating Committee over the violence in Manipur, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (PTI)

Manipur requires a solution for the long term, fast

3 min read . 06 Aug 2023

Rishi Sunak cited UK energy security as a reason to increase output.

The UK’s latest hydrocarbon policy is not climate friendly

3 min read . 07 Aug 2023

According to several reporters, a procession of Hindus led by a Hindu outfit was attacked by local Muslims. (HT_PRINT)

The character of Gurgaon is drawn from its rural roots

4 min read . 07 Aug 2023

A view of the Batagaika crater, as permafrost thaws causing a megaslump in the eroding landscape, in Russia's Sakha Republic. (REUTERS)

when a worm wriggles back to life after 46,000 freezing years in siberia

5 min read . 04 Aug 2023

Delays in GST compensation paid to states highlight problems in India’s fiscal system, including a lack of timely audits, even as the cess that funds it seems headed unfortunately for permanency.

Six years of GST: Compensation cess still needs to be sorted out

4 min read . 04 Aug 2023

Sam Altman has a visionary view of how humans could be paid a universal basic income in an AI-driven economy but the retina-scan mechanism for that already exists in India. (REUTERS)

Altman’s Worldcoin idea is out to reinvent the Aadhaar wheel

4 min read . 04 Aug 2023

And earlier this month, fertilizer giant Nutrien announced plans to distribute a new GMO soybean created by the startup ZeaKal Inc.

Genetically modified corn is welcome but won’t help much

3 min read . 03 Aug 2023

Under the previous Congress-led coalition, India’s Olympian feat on the global trade scene, had been to bring World Trade Organization meetings to a standstill.

India’s approach to trade remains too anachronistic

4 min read . 03 Aug 2023

States need to have robust institutions for academic work in the school education system.

A few good actions may actually be enough to improve education

4 min read . 03 Aug 2023

a modern republic requires a collective of engaged data users to ensure that the pulls and pressures of competitive politics do not impair statistical governance.

A data collective can strengthen our statistical system

4 min read . 01 Aug 2023

Prosus has concerns about the “strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance matters” of Byju’s, which means pretty much everything.

Venture capitalists find it tough to escape the ‘sunk cost’ fallacy

4 min read . 01 Aug 2023

The main reason for saying this is that there is a concern in the North-east that the fires in Manipur might spread to Mizoram and other neighbouring areas (PTI)

Ethnic rivalries must be brought to an end quickly

3 min read . 30 Jul 2023

While children of lower-income families have slightly better odds of getting into elite schools (assuming they have similar scores) than upper middle-class students, children of the 1% have a much better chance than everyone else. (AP)

Who gets into Harvard is not America’s inequality problem

3 min read . 31 Jul 2023

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