http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-and-sweden-trying-to-take-their-sambandh-to-next-level/1117582
India-Sweden ties to grow stronger
— By Rahul Nayar and R N Bhaskar | Aug 08, 2017 09:44 am
Shortly after India’s independence in 1947, Sweden recognised India as an independent country, following which both Sweden and India established formal diplomatic relations...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/maharashtras-criminally-reckless-water-management-and-its-industry-unfriendly-moves-3138561.html
Reckless water management in Maharashtra borders on criminality
Water levels underground have fallen by more than a metre during the past few years. That bodes ill for both the quality of groundwater — which could turn saline or toxic or...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/true-anywhere-else-banks-wouldve-settled-with-mallya-but-nowhere-else-hed-have-got-the-loan-2757580.html
Was Mallya wronged?
In some ways, Vijay Mallya, Chairman of the UB group of companies, may be right. He does rightly point out in a recent interview to Financial Times that the speed with which his passport was revoked is unprecedented in India’s...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.htmlhttps://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.html
Water series-1 (list of the entire series given at the end of this article)
India’s rapidly worsening water crisis
RN Bhaskar -- May 21, 2019
The old talk about water wars may not be entirely true today. But in India it could...
Japan eyes big ticket projects in India
Finance and skill development would be key issues for projects being looked at by Japan and China
In some ways, the deal with Japan for setting up India’s first bullet
train was almost decided when...
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1873228/report-china-and-india-different-perspectives
Within the next two months, one more delegation of senior educationists from India will travel through China, to work out modalities for having student-exchange-programmes between educational institutions from both countries . The initiative is more from the Chinese side...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/what-india-could-not-learn-from-germanys-hermann-scheer-solar-power-model-2749400.html
The scorching pace of solar power – IV
This is the fourth article in a five part series. The others can be found at
Part I: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/is-fear-of-bankruptcy-forcing-oil-rich-saudi-turn-to-solar-power-wait-for-25-april-html/
Part II: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/crashing-prices-india-can-gain-immensely-solar-power-space/
Part III: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/india-tremendous-advantage-solar-power-space-money/
Part V: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/you-snooze-you-lose-early-entrant-germany-scores-over-india-in-rooftop-solar-power-scheme-html/
In order to understand what made solar power become...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/poverty-alleviation-a-great-service-to-humanity
China has alleviated its poverty; India has a lot to learn from its success
By JesciliaK
Poverty is a growing concern for the world. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, global extreme poverty has increased further. In order to understand the various...
Stories and analyses about Sri Lanka which India should pay heed to
RN Bhaskar
This time, there is no policy watch, my weekly column. One reason is that I have been travelling through Sri Lanka for the past six days with...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-govt-needs-to-assure-foreign-investors-with-stable-laws-4853971.html
Pre Budget notes #4
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RN Bhaskar -- 24 January 2020
By now, there is no doubt that India is sliding down a slippery slope. Even the IMF recently downgraded India’s economic growth to 4.8% for the coming year (https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/sbi/thread-message-79498903-81298903.html). Privately, economists...
