The Budget has no long-term vision but is full of schemes for the ‘aam aadmi’. Here is how to make the best of it. Analysis by our columnist
R Balakrishnan with Sanket Dhanorkar

Perhaps no other Budget in the recent past has attracted as many eyeballs as this one. Even the Western powers seemed keen on knowing how the government would tackle the twin headaches of rising fiscal...

Despite economic prosperity and multiplying 24-hour business channels, retail investors are staying out of IPOs, mutual funds and pension funds—gypped by self-serving intermediaries and irritated by cumbersome rules of unaccountable regulators. Sucheta Dalal analyses

Media reports suggest that the government is giving up on the fond hope of raising Rs30,000 crore from the capital...

The new governance code is so impractical that it cannot further the cause of good governance or protect investors

“Birds do not build nests on a tree that does not bear fruits,” quotes corporate affairs minister, Salman Khurshid, from Chanakya’s Arthashastra to express his hope that corporate India will ‘generously adopt’ a brand new ‘voluntary’ code of corporate governance released...