<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Furqan Qamar and Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui"><item><title>Come clean on clean economy and clean note policies</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/come-clean-on-clean-economy-and-clean-note-policies/</link><pubDate>June 12, 2023, 8:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/02-17.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The brain has two organs &amp;#8211; the nucleus accumbens and the anterior cingulate. These organs illuminate when an activity takes place around us and start searching for possible patterns in the environment. This primal instinct helped humans obse...</excerpt></item><item><title>The Fatal Affliction</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/come-clean-on-clean-economy-and-clean-note-policies/</link><pubDate>June 12, 2023, 8:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/02-17.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Abraham Lincoln, in his letter to Albert G Hodges on 4th April 1864, wrote: “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” Abraham Lincoln. What was true then remains true now but few would want to adm...</excerpt></item><item><title>NPS could be made as good as OPS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/come-clean-on-clean-economy-and-clean-note-policies/</link><pubDate>June 12, 2023, 8:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/02-17.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The central and the state government employees and their brethren and sisters working in their autonomous institutions have been unhappy with the New Pension Scheme of the National Pension System (NPS). They want the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) that ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Old vs New Tax Regime: What you need to know</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/come-clean-on-clean-economy-and-clean-note-policies/</link><pubDate>June 12, 2023, 8:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/02-17.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The past two budgets have been nudging people to opt for the New Tax Regime (NTR). Budget 2023 claims to have made NTR all the more alluring for all categories of taxpayers. Standard Deduction as applicable to OTR has been extended to NTR besides ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Bank-corporate ugly nexus: No easy way out</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/come-clean-on-clean-economy-and-clean-note-policies/</link><pubDate>June 12, 2023, 8:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/02-17.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) are inherent in the financial system’s very nature but must be contained within enduring limits. Lately, however, they have been skyrocketing, impinging adversely on the credibility of the banking industry. It is grati...</excerpt></item><item><title>Bad assets must come down for good health of banks</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/bad-assets-must-come-down-for-good-health-of-banks/</link><pubDate>August 22, 2022, 6:43 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/best-banks-2021-40543452-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Increasing NPAs may deter people from depositing their savings in bank and prompt them to withdraw their deposits, which may in turn cause credit contraction leading to decline in profitability of banks.
</excerpt></item><item><title>‘Bad Bank’ must succeed to have good banks</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/bad-bank-must-succeed-to-have-good-banks/</link><pubDate>June 29, 2022, 5:56 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/np-2-2.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Non-performing assets have been beleaguering the banking sector in India fo﻿r a long time, but have worsened lately. Designed policies often fail to deliver desired results due to implementation challenges. In this case, time is of the essence and...</excerpt></item><item><title>Perilous pitfalls of the ease of doing PhD</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/perilous-pitfalls-of-the-ease-of-doing-phd/</link><pubDate>June 15, 2022, 5:06 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/UGC-suggests-compulsory-course-for-UG-PG-pupils-in-community-engagement.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>PhD is poised to become mandatory for entry into higher education as a faculty. Simultaneously, steps are afoot for the ease of doing PhD. In tandem, these do not augur well for higher education in India.</excerpt></item></author></feed>