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http://www.firstpost.com/business/shift-to-cashless-are-mumbai-municipalitys-finance-it-depts-hoodwinking-citizens-3411040.html Are MCGM’s finance and IT departments hoodwinking the corporation and citizens? RN BhaskarApr, 28 2017 15:27:45 IST The government of India is rooting for digitisation and financial transparency.  Both are laudable objectives.  Almost every government department has been exhorted to enable...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/rupee-nearing-73-mark-here-are-five-ways-narendra-modi-govt-can-arrest-the-sharp-currency-depreciation-against-us-dollar-5162451.html Can the rupee slide further? RN Bhaskar Sep 11, 2018 The rupee has begun sliding.  The RBI has finally intervened and brought it some respite from the relentless slide.  But that has not stopped marketmen asking the inevitable question: Can the...
http://m.firstpost.com/business/watch-jnpts-neeraj-bansal-explains-how-the-port-turned-around-despite-a-numbing-trade-slowdown-3053152.html JNPT's turnaround During the past one year, JNPT has embarked on a journey towards transforming itself. As Neeraj Bansal, deputy chairman, JNPT, puts it, in the past one year the "progress of JNPT has been fantastic”. Throughput at JNPT's terminals...
Misuse of Article 282 of the Constitution by the Centre to marginalise the political space of States- Fiscal injustice in its larger perspective Given below is a letter by EAS Sarma to all the Chief Ministers of Indian states on...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/can-evidence-be-kept-alive-indefinitely/ Can evidence be kept alive indefinitely? — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 05, 2015 12:00 am This is a true story about a couple in Singapore, where the wife is an entrepreneur. Each year, just before festival time, she asks her extended...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/now-private-banks-too-are-getting-tarnished/1260481 AIBEA should focus more on private bank malpractices RN Bhaskar -- Apr 19, 2018 Stories about wheeling dealing that managements of private sector banks have indulged in have suddenly put the spotlight on such banks. Hitherto, the focus was on mismanagement...
Given below is the text of the talk given by TANG Guocai, consul general, Chinese Consulate in Mumbai, India.  This talk was delivered at Symposium organised by the GIIS, the Guangdong University Thinktank, in association with JaiHind College, Asiaconverge...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/the-killing-fields-that-india-has-become-amid-the-second-wave-of-covid-19 Covid19 -- Who lit pyres on the killing fields? RN Bhaskar -- 27 April 2021 One has only to see the long queues of people standing outside hospitals.  Then one sees the numbers of people who have collapsed by the sidewalks. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/how-to-bounce-back-post-coronavirus Using Coronavirus as an opportunity for doing other things March 21, 2020 Everybody’s been talking about Coronavirus and its impact on lives and economies. While India fights the virus, it also needs to strategise on life after the outbreak is over. In...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget/opinion-interim-budget-great-for-elections-but-worrisome-for-the-economy-3479481.html Budget 2019 -- Great for elections, bad for the economy RN Bhaskar -- 04 February 2019 The mood in the BJP ranks is upbeat.  The recently concluded Budget 2019 session played the right notes for wooing farmers, the middle class and...