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Jane Street’s India Signal: Redirect Risk Toward Venture Capital

Sebi recently found that Wall Street financial firm Jane Street Capital had manipulated the cash and forward markets, fleeced hapless Indian investors, and made millions of dollars. For many, this would evoke images of the Wolf of Wall Street, howling Greed is Good, rebirth of the East India Company, and finance capital, rising and shimmering, shapeless and threatening, from Lenin’s tract on imperialism.

India’s Research & Development Crisis: Why Innovation Needs Investment, Not Loans

TK Arun The government’s new Research, Development and Innovation scheme is half-hearted hope masquerading as policy. True, it talks big money: Rs 1 trillion, for private sector R&D, which, at present, is vanishingly small, and certainly needs a policy-induced boost.…

Common Research and Technology Development Hubs (CRTDHs) FY14-15

CRTDHs are Common Research & Technology Development Hubs established by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), under India’s Ministry of Science & Technology. Launched in 2014–15, these CRTDH hubs aim to support micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by providing them access to R&D facilities, prototyping, skill development, and innovation infrastructure—resources they often lack.

Financial Assistance Schemes for Higher Education: Empowering India’s Future

The Department of Higher Education (DHE) has launched various schemes to provide financial assistance to students from economically weaker backgrounds to pursue their higher education, in the form of scholarships, education loans, etc. The higher education policies need to be inclusive, liberal, and accommodating to a more advanced, and knowledge-based society.

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