https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/russia-and-india-have-begun-to-tango-here-is-why-pm-modis-moscow-visit-is-critical-4472911.html/amp
Russia and India have begun to tango
RN Bhaskar – 25 Sept 2019
Last week, all news wires were full of developments on the India-Russia front. There was information that India and Russia had tied up to activate a maritime route...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget-2020-airconditioned-freight-for-perishable-food-cost-will-be-the-critical-factor-4894101.html
Budget2020
Airconditioned freight? Who will bear the cost?
RN Bhaskar -- 1 February 2020
To build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, inclusive of milk, meat and fish, the Indian Railways will set up a “Kisan Rail” – through PPP...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/from-investment-outlay-to-farmers-welfare-five-mistakes-one-must-avoid-while-reading-budget-2021
Budget 2021 has a lot of hype, and does not deal with many fundamental issues
By R.N.Bhaskar -- 1 February, 2021
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All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/
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While the markets are euphoric and people close to the government...
A modified version appeared at https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/how-neglect-of-education-and-healthcare-has-put-lives-of-millions-of-children-at-risk-5279411.html
The other two parts of this series can be found at :
Education #2 and Education #3
Education #1: Lack of good education kills millions of children each year
RN Bhaskar -- 18 May, 2020
India is facing...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-there-are-no-winners-in-farm-loan-waivers-3314251.html
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The pestilence of farm loan-waivers
Farm loan waivers represent bad economics, bad banking and promote the wrong type of social values. They end up hurting farmers
RN Bhaskar – 21 Dec 2018
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/sustainability-makes-economic-sense-says-accs-ceo-sridhar-balakrishnan
ACC works relentlessly towards sustainability
The sustainability focus for ACC, a subsidiary of Holcim, is on account of two key concerns. The first is that every citizen of this world should leave it a better place for our children than...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-supreme-court-reviewing-india-s-foreign-arbitration-processes-1735938
Supreme Court seeks to streamline cases relating to India’s foreign arbitration processes
Also read: http://www.asiaconverge.com/2012/09/judicial-delays-hit-arbitration-awards/
Businessmen and industrialists, both in India and overseas, are keenly awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court on issues pertaining to foreign arbitration awards.
This decision could...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/opinion-how-our-laws-are-increasingly-undermining-war-against-corruption-2872271.html
Are some people above the law?
Sadly, legislators forget that when laws get corroded either by inaction or through amendments, or through moves that make the collection of evidence difficult, the very fabric of governance gets frayed.
RN Bhaskar -- Aug...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/budget-2022-despite-govt-assurances-farmers-feel-betrayed
Budget-22: Has agriculture become irrelevant for India?
RN Bhaskar
As expected, Budget-22 had a lot to talk about farming. But they all amounted to little. Farmers are bitter about the provisions, or the lack of them.
The finance minister made the following...
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...
