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of printing; a Palestinian novel of love and motherhood — plus five books to understand India as it goes to the polls, and Pilita Clark’s pick of the best reads on the environment

April 20, 2024

InterviewIndian business & finance

India seeks to secure critical mineral resources in race for lithium

...is owned by the government of Argentina’s north-west Catamarca province....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Greensill Capital

Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’

...At one point he had a desk and security pass within the Cabinet Office, according to the Boardman review into Greensill Capital and its ties to government....

March 5, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The pursuit of happiness

...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

ReviewIndian politics & policy

Five books to understand India today

...The Struggle for India’s Soul (2021) by Shashi Tharoor India is replete with accounts by disillusioned liberals of how Hindu nationalism under Modi has changed India and altered its democratic institutions...

April 18, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen

Big business bets on Modi

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

April 19, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

News in-depthIndian politics & policy

India halts farmers’ march with smoke bombs and drones

...But the resurgence of India’s farmer protests has highlighted the Modi government’s failure to rationalise an agriculture sector that employs nearly half the population in a country where more than 800mn...

February 29, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The ‘mother of democracy’ is not in good shape

...Preserving political freedoms is in the best interests of Indian growth and prosperity, and of the Modi government’s ambitions to enhance the country’s role as a leading member of the global community....

April 2, 2024

Vodafone idea Ltd

Vodafone’s India unit staves off collapse after record $2.2bn fundraising

...UK parent Vodafone ruled out further support for the unit and wrote off the value of its investments, while India’s government bailed out Vodafone Idea and became its main shareholder....

April 23, 2024

Indian election

India election opens as Narendra Modi seeks third term in power

...“The real question is the strength of the mandate, which will decide how decisive the government will be in pushing ahead not only with its economic reform agenda, but also its more divisive identity-driven...

April 19, 2024

Martin Wolf

The tree of debt must stop growing

...Some economists seem to believe that the demand for a sovereign’s money is infinite: so long as there is some slack in the economy, the government can keep printing....

April 9, 2024

Letter

Letter: What a new temple tells us about a ‘secular’ India

...The government of a secular republic very evidently should not be promoting a particular religion or basing its development on the promotion of that religion....

January 19, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...Another blow for the retail investor community came with the government’s legislation on the rights of nominee holders at the implementation of Crest, an electronic settlement system, in 1996....

April 5, 2024

India

India braced for heatwaves as nearly 1bn head for marathon summer elections

...The India Meteorological Department expects 10 to 20 days of heatwaves between April and June — more than double the typical summer average of four to eight days....

April 20, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...I approached the counter and told the cashier my name. “Oh, India. Yes,” she said, looking slightly concerned for me. “This is quite the order.”...

March 23, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....

March 12, 2024

UK economy

The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers

...The Bank introduced the APF under Mervyn King in 2009, with support from the Labour government....

February 29, 2024

Q&AFT subscriber event

India at the ballot box: what business expects

...The prime minister’s outgoing government is confident enough of victory that it is already discussing an agenda for the first 100 days of his third term....

April 8, 2024

Haiti

Dominican Republic rebuff complicates Haitian leader’s route home

...home via the Dominican Republic....

March 9, 2024

Indian business & finance

India’s central bank bans Kotak Mahindra from signing up digital customers

...Kotak, one of India’s most influential financial figures....

April 24, 2024

Chess

India’s Gukesh, 17, is youngest ever Candidates winner

...The Chennai teenager started the 14th and final round half a point ahead of his three rivals, and had the better of a draw with the USA’s world No 3 Hikaru Nakamura....

April 22, 2024

Global InsightMichael Stott

The simple idea behind LatAm’s star economy

...Despite steady improvements under the current government, Transparency International ranks the Dominican Republic 108th out of 180 nations on its Corruption Perceptions Index, slightly worse than Ukraine...

March 18, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The welcome demise of big-government Toryism

...They exaggerated, too, the feasibility of one. A nation’s economic model isn’t the choice of its present government....

January 9, 2024

Letter

Letter: How government could solve the UK market’s lack of capital

...The UK government is short of funds but there is a simple solution — when offering tax relief, attach the condition that most of the money should be invested in UK assets....

March 11, 2024

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