Thursday, December 4, 2025
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-china-india-steeling-up-the-marketplace-1400885 Steel: China ups production; India ups consumption There’s a whirlwind of confusion within the Indian steel industry.  On the one hand, there is euphoria — demand for iron and steel continues to soar. And India knows that it, along with China,...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2017-with-polls-nearing-will-uttar-pradeshs-farm-sector-industry-get-a-boost-3195220.html Budget proposals that could swing voter sentiment - I: Will agriculture get priority in Budget 2017, on the eve of Uttar Pradesh elections? (With elections being announced for many states, including Uttar Pradesh, many believe that the budget to be...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/banks-npas-non-performing-assets-psbs-foreign-banks-private-sector-banks-restructuring-fpj-imc-forum-rbi-reserve-bank-of-india-ss-mundra-2792866.html Banks and the NPA problem S.S.Mundra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) put it quite succinctly when talking about the NPA problem confronting India. Quoting Harold Macmillan, he said, “To be alive at all involves some risk.”...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-to-drink-4082681.html Water series #4: abundance and penury in India RN Bhaskar -- 11 June 2019 (Other articles in this series are listed below) The title lines, taken from Samuel Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could sum up India’s pathetic condition...
http://www.firstpost.com/world/lessons-from-brexit-immigration-to-remain-one-of-the-most-debated-issues-2856770.html Brexit lesson: Don't every treat immigration casually; beware of demographic tinkering The cataclysm has happened. The die is cast. Events will now roll their painful course. Nobody knows what will actually happen. The British premier has resigned. And there is no...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/from-loss-of-jobs-in-the-middle-east-to-rising-unemployment-back-home-heres-how-the-oil-price-crash-will-affect-india Oil prices tumble.  Is that good for India? RN Bhaskar  --  21 April, 2020 Oil prices have crashed.  Just look at the chart alongside sourced from https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082. It has plunged into negative territory because traders want to jettison the stocks they...
  http://m.firstpost.com/politics/demonetisation-atm-chaos-pm-modi-should-have-gone-after-8-lakh-wealthy-farmers-not-common-man-3104572.html More black-money could be collected from 8 lakh 'farmers' than through demonetisation The demonetisation drive of the Narendra Modi government is expected to flush out black money. By demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, the government has rendered illegal...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/iit-fees-hike-jump-from-rs-90000-a-year-to-rs-2-lakh-is-still-not-high-enough-and-heres-why-2718988.html The Union ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) has just announced that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will increase their annual tuition fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh. “A decision to hike the fee over two-fold...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-how-the-new-corruption-law-protects-the-corrupt-and-why-some-bribes-should-be-legal-2802741.html The government protects bribe takers The amended law does nothing of this kind. Instead the only amendment it makes is extending the prison term to a maximum of seven years. RN Bhaskar -  Aug 03, 2018 Parliament’s latest attempt to curb corruption...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/dairy-will-be-a-key-player-in-the-rural-income-growth-story/1013018 NDDB's crucial role in the dairy development saga in India Feb 04, 2017 07:00 am The recently announced Budget 2017 has brought agriculture and dairy farming into the limelight once again. In India, dairy farming is associated with two names –...