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India's elections under threat (This letter was written as a response to the article as https://asiaconverge.com/2023/04/election-peril-aadhaar-and-the-missing-census/) From: EAS Sarma To Shri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)   Shri A C Pandey Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)   Shri Arun Goel Election Commissioner Election Commission of India...

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...

http://www.firstpost.com/india/bribery-in-india-how-to-minimise-bribe-giving-and-taking-2818398.html How to control bribery in India This is the second and final part of a series on bribery. The first part examined a variety of scenarios wherein Indian laws can be seen to be protecting and promoting bribery and corruption....

This artickle appeared in the 9-23 November 2015 edition of Business India on page Nos. 64-65. The pdf version of the article can be downloaded from here: 2015-11-09_BusinesssIndia-Covestro Bayer spawns Covestro -- and a star is born Covestro plans to carry...

http://www.firstpost.com/business/old-vehicles-scrapping-policy-foreign-exchange-siam-nitin-gadkari-gdp-2795360.html Scrapping old vehicles: cash for clunkers RN Bhaskar -- 23 May 2016 Media reports this morning, quoting a PTI source, referred to Nitin Gadkari, Union minister for surface transport, commenting on the need for an old-vehicle-scrapping-policy. In fact, it is quite possible...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/adar-poonawalla-ceo-serum-institute-of-india-need-to-examine-potential-of-vaccines-to-address-health-issues/1306747 Adar Poonawala - riding the vaccines market globally — By Pankaj Joshi and R N Bhaskar | Jun 29, 2018 The Serum Institute of India, part of the Cyrus Poonawalla group, is a key global player in the vaccine space. From being seen...

The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more.  Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is the accusation that the...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/how-great-eastern-and-shipping-corp-stayed-afloat-amid-global-challenges-3130771.html The vulnerability of giants – yet Great Eastern and Shipping Corporation have survived RN Bhaskar -- Nov 05, 2018 Both companies have been astute in the selection of vessels they own, and have shown tremendous resilience in charting their course during...

https://www.moneylife.in/article/who-is-responsible-for-keeping-farmers-in-bihar-and-uttar-pradesh-poor/64639.html Poverty in Uttar Pradesh & Bihar is not accidental By RN Bhaskar Also read https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fanciful-figures-of-uttar-pradesh/64715.html The prime minister has often promised that he is determined to double farmer incomes.  He was supposed to do this by this year. But then, like most promises...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/pre-budget-series-barbarians-at-the-gates-of-education-4824521.html Pre-Budget-series - III Please save education from the wolves RN Bhaskar  --  17 January 2020 Dear Finance Minister: I write this note both as a journalist as well as a person closely involved with the world of academics. And also as a concerned...