Thursday, August 27, 2026
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...
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...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/low-manpower-land-no-longer-hindrance-to-use-of-solar-power-says-ministry-2828976.html Better days ahead for solar power It was perhaps the most candid outline of what lies ahead for the solar power sector in India. Upendra Tripathy, secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, spoke of the big plans that lie...
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...
Xiaomi is shamelessly disdainful about the inconvenience it causes to customers, especially the disabled Please also refer to https://asiaconverge.com/2023/06/customercare-at-xiaomi-sucks/ which is the first part of this sorry saga. On 14 June, 2023, I wrote to Xiaomi, informing me about how it...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/budget-2021-2022-set-up-an-agri-tech-upgradation-fund-suggests-president-of-assocham TCI and the budget expectations for the transport sector according to Vineet Aggarwal, Managing Director of Transport Corporation of India (TCI) and President, ASSOCHAM JesciliaK & RN Bhaskar -- January 25, 2021, Vineet Aggarwal, Managing Director of Transport Corporation of India...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/young-indian-workers-should-come-to-japan-to-work-says-dr-fukahori-yasukata-consul-general-of-the-japanese-consulate-in-mumbaihttps://www.freepressjournal.in/business/young-indian-workers-should-come-to-japan-to-work The world's number 3 and number 6 economies need to work together to create a better future, says Dr. FUKAHORI Yasukata. Consul-General of the Japanese Consulate in Mumbai Rebello Dominic | RN Bhaskar Dr. FUKAHORI Yasukata. Consul-General, cosulate of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cattle-semen-and-breeding-is-a-story-that-india-should-be-proud-of-4473131.html/amp The growth and growth of the cattle semen industry in India RN Bhaskar --  Sep 25, 2019 During the past 25 years, the cattle semen industry in India has been growing by leaps and bound.  In 1995 India produced around 13...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-wrong-diagnosis-and-refusal-to-accept-warning-signals-were-responsible-for-indias-slippage India's economy - the clock is invariably slow Ah! the clock is always slow.// It is later than you think – Robert W Service (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46651/it-is-later-than-you-think) RN Bhaskar There was a time when most people had the confidence that the economy would be pulled...
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...