Customers are finding it all but impossible to get through to many firms by the phone. It means those calling to challenge a higher renewal price or ask about cheaper deals are left out in the cold.

Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about various economic aspects of the pandemic

Business Standard opinion pieces for the day talk about the fiscal and other aspects of the pandemic.

Covid-19 continues in different parts of the world, including India. Among other things, the pandemic has significantly affected global financial markets

Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about various aspects of the pandemic

Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up the views

The next crisis may be a climate one. Are we preempting it? Are we ready for it? Can technology help compensate for some of the downsides of social distancing? Alokananda Chakraborty sums up.

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Though people welcomed these initially, many now opine that some of these are unscientific and rather than helping the public

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Follow up demonetisation by bringing land and real estate into the GST, suggests the survey

It has recommended reforms in labour and tax policies to make these two sectors globally competitive

Upsurge in protectionism, affecting India's exports, is a matter of concern, says Sunil Kanoria

Announces special scheme for leather & footwear industries for creating employment

It will amend Drugs & Cosmetics Rules to ensure availability of low-cost drugs & promote generics

It proposes zero customs and excise duties on certain items related to cashless transaction devices

For passenger safety, a fund to be created with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh cr over a period of 5 years

Government aims to take strategic crude oil reserve capacity to 15.33 MMT with two new facilities

Assistance of up to Rs 75 lakhs to be provided to every e-NAM (National Agricultural Market)

Harmonisation of rules for medical devices will have a positive impact for healthcare sector

Focus on infrastructure is bound to channel lot of growth opportunities for downstream industries

More spends on the infrastructure & agriculture will put India on the growth path in the future

However, this will require investments in grid management and digitisation of the grid

The fact that impact of demonetisation will not spill over to the next year augur well for industry

However, there are certain reductions in duties of components to promote domestic manufacturing

Some steps to cover recycling cost of end-of-life product would have helped e-waste recycling sector

Niche sectors such as robotics, will benefit hugely from skill development programs

Lagging behind in biosciences is not good for social security and strategic national security

Move to reduce corporate tax for MSME will boost exports & manufacturing at large

However, there are no significant steps for enabling access of feedstock to petrochemicals industry

While agriculture got allocations of Rs 13,741 cr, fisheries & aquaculture received only Rs 401 cr

Budget's proposal to reduce basic customs duty on LNG to provide respite to petrochemicals sector

Reduction in corporate tax rates for MSME to give a boost to medium and small companies