'There won't be a teleprompter': Sanjay Raut dares PM Modi, Shah to sing full Vande Mataram

The Reserve Bank of India has operated under a flexible inflation targeting framework since 2016, mandated to keep headline CPI inflation within a four percent target with a two percentage point band. But food items, subject to monsoon variability and supply shocks well outside monetary policy's reach, make up nearly half the CPI basket. The resulting mismatch has repeatedly forced the RBI into a defensive posture, raising questions about whether the framework needs recalibration.

Eight years after its launch, the Goods and Services Tax has undeniably widened India's tax base and unified a fractured indirect tax system. But its multiple rate slabs, frequent classification disputes and compliance burden on small businesses reveal a reform that was politically negotiated into complexity rather than designed for simplicity. Recent rate rationalisation efforts suggest the government finally recognises the problem, if not yet the full solution.

India's female labour force participation rate fell for decades even as the economy grew and women's education levels rose, a pattern economists have long called a puzzle. Recent Periodic Labour Force Survey data shows a rebound, but much of it is concentrated in unpaid or subsistence-level rural work. Whether this represents genuine economic empowerment or distress-driven labour supply remains a live and consequential debate.

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