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The framework reads less like an agreement between partners and more like a probation order written by the stronger side.

Former finance secretary S.C. Garg, who served during Piyush Goyal’s temporary stint as the acting finance minister in 2019, depicts Narendra Modi’s commerce minister as favouring headline‑grabbing ideas. Ones that often violated basic principles of sound public finance, while showing little respect for institutional checks or the professional judgement of senior officials like himself. In the book “We Also Make Policy”, Garg writes of a deep personality clash, arguing that Goyal’s combative style as acting finance minister made a relationship of professional equals virtually impossible.
The trajectory of this kind of decision making reached its international zenith during the chaotic …

India’s second-largest brokerage by active clients wants to handle IPOs as a merchant banker. But gaining a foothold in the highly competitive sector is easier said than done.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Former WeWork chief is betting on the Mideast markets, fresh attacks have the Gulf on edge again, and other updates from this week.