Economic Times Editorial

Kudos to Team TCS for its crossing the milestone of $100 billion in market capitalisation(पूंजीकरण), becoming the first company from India and only the 64th in the world to manage the feat(करतब/साहसिक कार्य). The...

This newspaper is opposed(सामने का/विरोध का) to the death penalty in principle. But there are other reasons to disapprove of the proposed amendment(संशोधन) to the Indian Penal Code to award death penalty to...

The just-concluded(निष्कर्ष निकाला) 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting marks the renewal of this mid-20th-century institution. Its renewed relevance(योग्यता/प्रासंगिकता) owes much to the UK’s exit from the EU, the difficult Brexit negotiations(बातचीत/वार्ता), the global...

It is welcome that the first resolution under the Insolvency(दिवालियापन) and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has been completed, with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approving mining giant Vedanta’s plan to acquire(प्राप्तकरना/अधिकार करना)Electrosteel Steels, with...

According to the government and the RBI, the currency in circulation(खपत/प्रसार) has normalised(सामान्यीकृत), after demonetisation knocked off the bulk(विस्तार/बड़ा हिस्सा) of it.Yet, several states have reported a severe cash crunch(संकट/कमी),people complaining of ATMs running dry and not being...

What has a music streaming company in distant Sweden got to do with stolid(सुस्त/आवेगहीन) public sector undertakings in India? Quite a bit. Spotify offers a good way to carry out disinvestment(विनिवेश/लगाया गया पैसा वापस...

Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel has done the right thing to rule out any dilution(हलका करना/कम करना) in the norms for bad loans in the face of lobbying by banks and...

Good sense appears to have prevailed at last. With a fresh set of draft rules to replace last year’s poorly conceived(कल्पना)ones, the Centre has sought to withdraw the ban on sale of...

The finance ministry reportedly wants to convert the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), a private company that manages the indirect tax infrastructure, into a government company to ostensibly(जाहिरा तौर पर) protect sensitive(संवेदनशील)data.This is...

At a time when public confidence in banking has been shaken — 16% of banks’ asset portfolio(निवेश सूची) is stressed(प्रभाव डालना/ज़ोर देना), 11 public sector banks are in need of what banking regulator RBI calls...