Thursday, May 28, 2026
A variant of this article appeared at Moneycontrol (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/the-government-should-set-an-example-to-the-private-sector-on-corporate-governance-4599811.html) Good governance must begin with the government RN Bhaskar – 25 October, 2019 In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and...
How to give India's gold a better glow yet make it part of a "Make in India" movement You can download the full report from here: Gold is one of the oldest industries in India employing almost 3.5 million people. But its...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-to-fix-the-slowing-economy-begin-with-agriculture-4810561.html Pre-Budget #1 Economic revival must begin with agriculture RN Bhaskar  --  13 January 2020 Another Budget season is just round the corner.  The finance minister and even the prime minister are determined to show that they can introduce measures that can revive...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/ningbo-port-in-china-grew-despite-the-prevailing-economic-slump Ningbo becomes the world's largest port Jescilia K and RN Bhaskar 3 December 2019 Ningbo/China: There is a constant talk about the adverse effects of the US-China trade war on the export-import. But for one of the largest ports in China, Ningbo...
This article first appeared in DNA in April 2009. But it does not appear on the dnaindia website now. Maytas may soon be taken over by IL&FS RN Bhaskar There is every likelihood of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (...
Surat is where the action in diamonds can be found Dharmanandan Diamonds, established four decades ago, is among the premier players in the established Surat diamond industry with offices in three continents overall. Having seen lots of ups and downs,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/uk-continues-to-make-money-from-india The UK Visa office and its money-making ways RN Bhaskar -- July 25, 2019 Commerce and the UK were never strangers.  Napoleon called this country a nation of shopkeepers.  Even during colonisation, the British first came in as a trading company,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/introduce-the-cash-for-clunkers-policy-soon Revive the economy with speedy judicial redressal and a scrapped vehicle policy RN Bhaskar – 5 September, 2019 Last fortnight, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures that she thought would galvanise the economy. Among them was a roll-back...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/how-to-protect-indias-agriculture-sector-from-over-zealous-govt-functionaries-3435752.html Pulse of the nation - V Pulses and some simple ways to protect India's agriculture Part I – Introduction. Misplaced fallacies. Part 1I will talk about why wheat and rice have grabbed the politician-policymakers minds’.  And how this has pushed back focus...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-praapti-transparency-or-tokenism-you-decide-2606461.html PRAAPTI looks and sounds good, but could be plain tokenism RN Bhaskar Late last month, R.K.Singh, minister of state  in charge of power, launched the PRAAPTI app and web portal (http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=179615). The idea was to bring in transparency related to electricity...