Economic Times | Dinesh Narayanan

top of page

Dinesh Narayanan

Stories

A year after Case #1, why is Kerala still struggling with a high number of active cases?

A year after Kerala reported India’s first Covid-19 case, the state continues to see a high number of active cases. But it has kept the death rate low.

Screenshot 2025-01-30 152251.png

Atmanirbhar Bharat's container quandary: Where India needs to tick the right boxes, and urgently

India has run into a severe shortage of steel boxes — a key lifeline of global trade — at a time when its exports were just about picking up again after prolonged Covid disruptions. India can go for Atmanirbharta in box building, but building steel boxes to bridge the current shortage may turn out to be a bad business call.

Screenshot 2025-01-30 152451.png

With Chinese help, Sri Lanka is readying a global financial hub to rival India's GIFT City

While the GIFT City IFSC has a head start over CIFC, Sri Lanka can quickly ramp up construction with Chinese help. It has set an eight-year target. If their strategic partnership also nudges some big Chinese firms to set up shop in the CIFC, the race would be on. After all, cash rich Chinese firms have been investing heavily in assets across Asia.

Traveling in a pandemic: The dilemma is real

The virus simply eluded a clear pattern of manifestation. Thousands of asymptomatic people were said to be virus carriers. Many symptomatic people tested negative. What if we brought it home putting the parents at risk?

How states like Bihar and Odisha can leverage Covid into an opportunity

With the right moves, the likes of Bihar and Odisha can leverage the Covid crisis into an opportunity.

Why Visakhapatnam gas leak should set off alarm bells

Report suggest the plant operated between 1997 -2019 without valid environment clearances.

Alexa, report to the e-commerce regulator

The intention is to bring all B2B, B2C, consumer-facing, consumer-based content platforms, apps-based commerce and IoT device-based services under the policy, potentially engulfing products like the Amazon Echo, which is powered by artificial intelligence-driven virtual assistant Alexa, and MG Hector, the Internet-enabled vehicle from Morris Garages in the regulatory realm of e-commerce

View: Treat the crisis as the big nudge

A crisis is also a great opportunity to push through behavioural changes that are difficult to incentivise otherwise. People, for instance, ignore health advice to wear face masks to protect themselves from severe air pollution. But the virus has managed even the most intransigent of them to cover their faces

MPs, VCs action group to scout, fund ideas to fight nCovid19, economic stress

Over a dozen parliamentarians, VCs, academics and institutions will scout for a virus fix together.

Coronavirus would reset distances, labour market: Experts

The sudden displacement of migrant labour would have far-reaching impact on the Indian economy.

Coronavirus may have long lasting impact on inter-state migration

f the shutdown prolongs, those who have returned home would be under pressure to earn. With few livelihood options in villages, they would want to return to the cities again. As states began enforcing lockdowns and public transport and inter-state travel halted, lakhs of workers are stranded in cities where shops are shut and essential services are badly hit.

Screenshot 2025-01-30 154633.png

Facial Recognition: Let's face it, it's a big market & a big danger

The technology has opened up a massive surveillance market in India which still lacks a legal framework.

Pegasus spyware can target up to 50 phones at once

The spyware can monitor up to 500 phones in a year, but can only track a maximum of 50 at one go. He said it costs about $7-8 million per year to license Pegasus as per the sources on Pegasus' snooping capabilities. Allegedly the Israeli company developed a program that copied WhatsApp’s network traffic to target devices over the app’s servers.

.jpg.jpg

WhatsApp row: Company that backed Israeli cyber technology company NSO Group has an 'India connection'

WhatsApp lawsuit reveals how private equity firms play key roles in the growth of surveillance tech companies. NSO cofounders did a classic management buyout of the company from San Francisco-based PE firm Francisco Partners. Francisco Partners was co-founded in 1999 by former TPG Capital principal Dipanjan ‘DJ’ Deb along with David Stanton, another senior TPG executive.

India wants data localisation in RCEP for security interests

Interestingly, although the FSA was negotiated by the RBI, the contact point for the FSA is the commerce ministry and not the central bank

Panel seeks ‘Right to Health’, shift to Concurrent list

The idea of making healthcare a right has been a matter of debate for long.

Indresh Kumar outfit to expand break-up-Pakistan campaign

"There is no reason why Pakistan should exist. What has been its contribution except terrorism?’’ Kumar told ET.

ICSSR and research bodies cross swords on performance standards

Social science council says compliance below par; some institutes say quality under threat.

Are you Arya Samaji, Bohra, Marthomite or Kuka?

For next census, proposal being debated on adding separate heads for sects/branches of 6 major faiths.

Ritam: A news app that aggregates ‘truth’ as right wing sees it

The app — Ritam, an acronym for ‘reliable, informative, trusted, authentic and motivating’ — was launched in early February by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Android.

PMO tells departments, PSUs to pick ‘Made in India’ products

“Our concern is Make in India,” Nripendra Misra told ET. “We want progressive, continuous increase of indigenous components in products procured by us.”

Ola, Uber strike: Trade unions see delivery boys, drivers as the new 'oppressed'

Devendra Fadnavis promised to get the transport secretary and commissioner, unions and representatives from Ola and Uber at one table to thrash things out.

India's data localisation push can give rise to new business opportunity

With RBI not budging on financial data localisation and the government finalising the data bill, a new business opportunity is set to explode

.jpg.jpg

Digital dispensaries take affordable healthcare to remote locations

Despite years of state planning and spending billions of rupees, India has not managed to reach affordable, quality healthcare to most of its citizens.

Bajaj bids adieu to hamara Chetak

Bajaj Auto has finally written the epitaph of the scooter that is an icon of post independent India.

bottom of page