Tuesday, December 9, 2025
http://www.firstpost.com/india/with-drought-looming-maha-govt-dresses-up-budget-to-please-the-farmer-but-key-flaws-remain-2688018.html On the face of it, the government of Maharashtra has sought to bring forth a budget that is farmer friendly. It has allocated some Rs 25,000 crore for agriculture. It has introduced schemes that appear to be aimed at...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-milkmen-in-north-cry-mother-dairy-laughs-all-the-way-to-bank-1667390 Milk imports, farmer distress, and Mother Dairy's profits RN Bhaskar -- 26 March 2012 Mother Dairy's monthly earnings are anywhere between Rs72 crore and Rs117 crore more than those of rival Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation. For the last three months, Mother...
An edited version of this article appeared at https://www.cnbctv18.com/healthcare/coronavirus-what-india-can-learn-from-singapore-in-fighting-the-disease-5508351.htm Coronavirus: lessons from Singapore RN Bhaskar  --  18 March 2020 India is in various stages of a lockdown.  In many cities and even states, schools and colleges have been closed.  People have...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/tata-power-ceo-and-md-praveer-sinha-we-are-doing-a-huge-amount-of-rd-in-micro-grids/1276683 Tata Power's Sinha wants  wants his company to be well-positioned to cope with the coming disruption — By RN Bhaskar, Jescilia Karayamparambil | May 15, 2018 Praveer Sinha, the newly-appointed CEO and MD of Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, is embarking...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/falling-price-of-food-isnt-always-good-news-it-signals-deep-trouble-for-indias-rural-economy-5552731.html But for oil, inflation is down. But the rural economy is still hurting RN Bhaskar -- Nov 15, 2018 First the bad news.  Inflation continues to climb (see chart).  The wholesale price index (WPI) kept climbing since August this year, But when...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/heres-why-the-make-in-india-and-atma-nirbhar-bharat-ruse-can-cause-more-harm-than-good The cobra effect the govt is blind to -- in IT, telecom, finance, and elsewhere RN Bhaskar -- June 5, 2020 Management gurus call it the Cobra effect.  That’s when a decision is taken that you think is brilliant. But it...
Doing business with the dead? Those who do not respect the dead cannot be expected to respect the living either.  And democracy and elections cease to have any meaning if rampant impersonation and dummy voting is permitted. Remember the brilliant...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-asking-for-investments-is-good-but-can-india-guarantee-speedy-and-fair-grievance-redressal-2489553.html Speedy grievance redressal is crucial for healthy investment flows Much of the fresh investment into new projects has not taken off, even three years after Modi began wooing investors. Investors make conciliatory noises, but something keeps them away. RN Bhaskar...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_a-great-deal-of-gas-to-harness_1807789 A great deal of gas to harness Wednesday, 6 March 2013 - 8:33am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna R N Bhaskar India has an unbelievable advantage in methane generation. Not just from bullshit, as this column explained last week, but...
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...