Thursday, July 16, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-us-has-just-given-the-eu-a-kiss-of-death The US has just given the EU a kiss of death RN Bhaskar Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30 August 2022 ( he was born on 2 March 1931).  And when he died, there was a confused pain among Russians, and a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-union-minister-piyush-goyal-got-it-wrong-about-retail-trade-and-ecommerce Five things that Minister Piyush Goyal was totally wrong about. By RN Bhaskar August 2021 was a dark day for India. Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Commerce (whom the government has also made minister for textiles and consumer affairs, food, and...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/commodities/gold-needs-some-very-urgently-needed-policy-changes-4820471.html Policy changes for gold urgently required RN Bhaskar  -- January 15, 2020 Successive governments in India have waffled on gold policies for long (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/11/urgent-needfor-gold-reforms/). As a result, the entire gold trade was allowed to either go underground, or go to seed. The...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/jobs-at-risk-is-india-prepared-for-huge-unemployment-or-is-it-blissfully-sleeping-3353496.html Is your job at risk? RN BhaskarMar, 27 2017 08:32:18 IST There’s a buzz about robotics everywhere.  People are already talking about – and experimenting with – driverless cars.  Then there is further talk about robotics – about how they could...
Falling oil prices, remittances and jobs Feb 04, 2016 12:00 am http://www.freepressjournal.in/falling-oil-prices-remittances-and-jobs-rn-bhaskar/771956 Any which way you look at it, non-resident-Indians (NRIs) have done this country proud. With hardly any government support programme, through sheer grit and enterprise, these NRIs have ventured...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/indian-students-abroad-the-darker-side-of-indias-higher-education-myopia-2720800.html Some people are aghast at the government’s decision to hike education fees for the IITs. Ask them to look at the fees that foreign universities charge. It is then that you begin to realise how myopic some of India’s policymakers...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/two-ds-of-india-demonetisation-digitisation-2/1024483 Two Ds of India: Demonetisation & Digitisation — By FPJ Web Desk | Feb 24, 2017 03:17 pm Free Press Journal (FPJ) along with the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) organised a panel discussion on the impact of the Budget in specific...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/a-huge-transformation-of-the-power-sector-can-be-expected-2500499.html Has the Union Budget 2018 planned for the radical transformation of the power sector that is needed? But look close and you begin to see the first stirrings of policy change which could overhaul the power sector. RN Bhaskar -- Feb...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/onion-farmers-distress-verghese-kuriens-formula-of-giving-farmers-50-of-market-price-of-harvest-can-help-5662201.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true How to protect onion farmers from distress prices RN Bhaskar -- December 3, 2018 Social media is rife with the story of a farmer who got just Rs 1,064 for 750 kg of onion.  So upset was he with the amount...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-two-villages-harnessed-solar-pumps-to-create-incomes-for-farmers-conserve-groundwater-4381161.html Harnessing solar pumps to create additional incomes for farmers RN Bhaskar  --  Aug 28, 2019 This is a story of a brilliant concept that NDDB came up with – along the state power distribution company (discom) – which has become a...