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Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

How to get the next set of reforms right

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The government has the willingness, intent and numbers to push reforms. But whether it is able to take everyone along, frame policies factoring in socioeconomic complexities, and stay the course will determine India’s economic trajectory (Vipin Kumar /HT PHOTO)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:15 pm IST

Don’t turn the clock back on investment norms

Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao talking to his Cabinet colleague Manmohan Singh in 1994. (Sanjay Sharma / HT Archive)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:18 pm IST

Trade dilemma in a populist world

India’s foreign exchange reserves could have paid for just two weeks of imports when the balance of payment crisis erupted in 1991.
Published on Jul 09, 2021 05:50 pm IST

Return of India’s poverty challenge

Fruits of economic reforms had not been shared equally across class and region.
Updated on Jul 09, 2021 05:49 pm IST

3 decades of reforms: Cup is only half-full

The 1960s and the 1970s were worse in terms of economic growth than the 1950s.
Published on Jul 09, 2021 05:48 pm IST

Economic reforms: Why 2021 must surpass 1991

In improving the overall competitiveness of the economy, the quality of social and physical infrastructure, along with following through with the important changes which have been initiated over the last two years, will be crucial. We need to make exports an engine of growth and ensure abiding changes in trade logistics. We need to shed the hesitation in becoming a driver of, not a reactive agent to, preferential trade arrangements. (HTPhoto)
Published on Dec 27, 2024 12:14 pm IST

Keeping people, not profits, at the centre of reforms

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Farmers’ supporters protest against the three farm laws outside Raj Niwas on completion of seven months of farmers’ agitation in New Delhi on June 26. (ANI)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:20 pm IST

Three decades of liberalisation: Banking highs and lows

Here is the story of Indian banking since economic liberalisation.
Updated on Jul 02, 2021 03:56 pm IST

Thirty years down memory lane

The new Industrial Policy Resolution was tabled in Parliament on the morning of July 24. In the afternoon, at 5 pm, the finance minister presented his first, and path-breaking, budget. The rest is history (HT Archive)
Published on Dec 27, 2024 12:17 pm IST

Reforms and Indian capitalism

Representational image. (AFP)
Updated on Jun 30, 2021 08:22 am IST

Reforms for a new India in the 21st century

A host of measures, carefully planned and executed with no discrimination, built the necessary environment for the poor to feel included without having to beg for it (PTI)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:16 pm IST

Soft infrastructure, and a tablet for all, can catalyse India’s development

The biggest enabling reform for the future has to be the JAM trinity — opening bank accounts for all Indian households, getting 1.2 billion Indians enrolled onto Aadhaar and getting almost all Indians a mobile phone (Hindustan Times)
Published on Dec 27, 2024 12:19 pm IST

India needs a third generation of reforms

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An equity advisor watches share prices at a financial consultants' firm in Mumbai. (File photo)
Updated on Jun 29, 2021 12:39 pm IST

The 1991 reforms: The right people at a tight time

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Finance minister Manmohan Singh brought in intellectual and technocratic heft, backed up by his long experience in all the highest organs of economic policymaking. (HT archive)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:13 pm IST

From 1991, the lessons for the India of 2021

The 1991 reforms helped the economy stave off a crisis and then bloom. It is time to outline a credible new reform agenda that will not just bring GDP back to pre-crisis levels, but also ensure growth rates higher than it had when it entered the pandemic. (AFP)
Updated on Dec 27, 2024 12:17 pm IST