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...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/a-huge-transformation-of-the-power-sector-can-be-expected-2500499.html
Has the Union Budget 2018 planned for the radical transformation of the power sector that is needed?
But look close and you begin to see the first stirrings of policy change which could overhaul the power sector.
RN Bhaskar -- Feb...
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.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/then-a-mundhra-now-a-mallya/299122
If you want to rob everyone, just start a bank
R.N.Bhaskar -
31 July 2017 Business Opinion
There is an old saying which puts it quite pithily: “If you have a gun, you may be able to rob a bank; but if...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/india-needs-to-re-think-at-least-five-policies-in-respect-of-waste-management-4510371.html
India is wrong about waste management in at least five ways
RN Bhaskar -- 9 October, 2019
For the last few years, Indian politicians like to rail and rant against the use of plastic. Some states have even gone to the...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-the-governments-gold-policies-make-indias-neighbours-richer-and-this-country-itself-poorer-4574121.html
India's gold policies have impoverished the country
RN Bhaskar -- Oct 25 2019
In 2013, P Chidambaram decided to impose a 10% import duty on gold (https://in.reuters.com/article/india-tax-finmin/gold-duty-raised-to-record-10-percent-as-imports-revive-idINDEE97C03J20130813). The finance minister was quite savvy about the way financial markets work.
He knew too...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/rs-20-lakh-crore-economic-stimulus-will-india-ever-be-aatma-nirbhar-bharat-when-it-comes-to-education
Whatever happened to education in Atma Nirbhar
RN Bhaskar – 18 May 2020
Except for lip service to online education (Technology driven Systems - Online Education during COVID-19, on page 6 of the fifth document released as part of the Atma...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/
Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am
India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...
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...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-lessons-not-learned-indias-scams-amount-to-enemy-action-2550399.html
Scams have become India's national pastime
RN Bhaskar
Once is happenstance. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
-- James Bond (Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger)
The markets are in a tizzy. Believers in a concept called India are dismayed. The...
