Merger of Sebi and FMC will hopefully lead the way to a unified regulator for the financial market.

But despite the separatists’ electoral victory, Catalonia’s road to freedom is far from obstacle-free.

Modi’s right noises abroad need to be backed by concrete policy actions back home.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on September 28, Forty Years Ago.

Modi and Obama need to lock-in recent gains, compel their bureaucracies to turn declarations into outcomes.

Without police reforms, Gujarat’s proposed counter-terror law will, once more, institutionalise persistent abuses.

Sustainable development goals will only be met if they account for social contexts.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on September 26, Forty Years Ago.

India’s quest for a place at the world’s high table continues, with no end in sight.

As long as half of Nepal feels it has been shortchanged by the new constitution, political stability will elude it.

Finally, the best-known English song is free of the clutches of the copyright regime.

Gujarat offers financial support to the poor among upper caste students. It must expand its notion of deprivation.

Non-functioning of Parliament is best addressed in the political arena. Judiciary does well to stay out of it.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on September 25, Forty Years Ago.

Information security, law enforcement goals of encryption policy need reconciling.

As PM returns to American shores, his US agenda creates a simultaneous domestic economic reform agenda.

Kin and clan dominate candidates lists in Bihar. Parties need to think differently.

The Volkswagen emissions scandal is a breach of trust that will have widespread ramifications .

PM’s push has generated a productive moment in Indo-US ties. But he has to work harder to convince American industry

1965 shows that a war can’t be limited just because one side wants it to be.

Jackie Collins’s books recast women in a new light and broke stifling gender moulds.

Modi and Nawaz shouldn’t meet in the US. They need to speak to each other away from the media glare.

Finally, there’s a PIL-free green initiative, and it’s being embraced everywhere.

Government’s mishandling of encryption policy frames a shambolic approach to internet governance.