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http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-great-indian-irony-farmers-starve-while-politicians-agriculture-income-continue-to-rise-3360212.html Loan waivers, farmer suicides, private wealth and public starvation RN BhaskarMar, 30 2017 16:56:33 IST There is something horrible, almost Kafka-esque, that is taking place in Maharashtra. Politicians across the spectrum have been demanding loan waivers.  When a banker cautions against erosion...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/we-want-to-grow-fast-and-right-abhicl-chief-executive-officer-mayank-bathwal/1355086 We want to move from pure health financing to health risk management says Mayank Bathwal, ceo, ABHICL — By S Narayanan and R N Bhaskar | Sep 13, 2018 Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company (ABHICL), the sixth standalone health insurance company in India,...
http://m.firstpost.com/business/china-spectre-is-only-in-indias-mind-new-delhi-cannot-afford-to-ban-chinese-goods-3055522.html Boycotting China is a joke If you are an Indian, even a short walk through China's cities will tell you that few people in this country even think of India as an adversary. This is quite unlike Hong Kong where...
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.firstpost.com/business/as-parliament-readies-for-gst-debate-supreme-court-to-decide-on-entry-taxes-2899728.html Are entry taxes unconstitutional? Even as the Narendra Modi government prepares to give one big push to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Monsoon Session of Parliament that began on Monday (18 July), a legal doorway has been...
Global growth requires much more than GDP and population By RN Bhaskar On 9 December, 2023, a senior minister of the Indian government spoke at an industry forum.  He exhorted industrialists in the audience to collaborate further with the Government to...
Souece: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/the-story-of-indias-uncertified-deaths-why-the-grim-reaper-cant-link-up-with-aadhaar-2365737.html Death and Aadhaar don't mix R.N.Bhaskar -- Aug 21, 2017 08:07 PM Linking deaths to Aadhaar would have allowed the government to know when to terminate entitlements and direct transfer of benefits to a recipient once deceased. Recently, the government flip-flopped...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/making-the-poor-even-poorer   Making the poor even poorer RN Bhaskar On Independence Day came the news that the finance minister planned to soon review the exemption-free new tax regime with a view to making it more attractive for individual income taxpayers, sources said. Eventually,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/mission-paani-authorities-slip-up-badly-on-waste-management-even-water-harvesting-4204031.html Water Series #9 Other articles in this series are listed below. The govt slips up badly on waste-management, even water harvesting RN Bhaskar – July 15, 2019 Once the water is made available, it must be preserved. That is where water harvesting comes...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/how-gnfc-is-reviving-the-glory-of-neem-2316943.html Project Neem –I     the second part can be found at  http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/gnfc-expands-its-neem-business/ GNFC triggers a neem revolution Rn bhaskar - Jul 03, 2017 01:06 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com There are some concepts that have the potential of changing an entire country.  And...