The stench of bribery is up in the air once again. This time, it is disclosure that a US company, Louis Berger, paid bribes to two Goa legislators to win a contract. At least one of them has been...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/book-by-first-time-author-spells-out-seven-strategic-advantages-that-can-steer-india-to-wealth-6056231.html
Book Review: Game India: seven strategic advantages that can steer India to wealth
By Jescilia K
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The book can be got from:
Amazon
or
Flipkart
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(Also watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJip7YLyzU at the Delhi book launch)
Deepak Parekh, chairman HDFC Ltd puts it quite succinctly on the jacket of...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/maharashtra-farmers-strike-a-handy-tool-for-congress-and-ncp-to-hide-65-years-of-self-enrichment-3519481.html
Could Maharashtra’s farmer strike be a strategy to conceal 60 years of self-enrichment?
RN BhaskarJun, 05 2017 17:01:57 IST
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have together supported a strike by agitating farmers demanding complete waiver of all agricultural...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/fpj-initiatives/covid-19-spurs-decline-in-labour-participation-rate-in-india
CMIE's Mahesh Vyas: State of the Indian economy -- an FPJ SIES webinar
By Jescilia Karayamparambil
The full video lecture can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBM5JY2UX9k&t=1s
To determine the health of the economy, regular data collection is critical. Private institutions like the Centre...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/passports-when-the-best-get-knocked-down/1229747
Is the passport being degraded as an identity document?
— By RN Bhaskar | Mar 01, 2018 08:57 am
Last week, the government came out with a startling notification – that passports would now be issued without the mandatory police verification. Ostensibly,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-china-relations-understanding-history-to-plan-for-the-future
History matters – even in strengthening India-China relationships
GIIS, the Guangdong University Thinktank, in association with JaiHind College, Asiaconverge and the Chinese Consulate in Mumbai held a symposium on "Towards Better China-India Understanding: A Study of CPC Resolution on History".
India...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/judiciary-is-india-a-democracy
Judiciary V: Without good justice delivery and education democracy is just not posible
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar 25 March 2021
S. Jaisankar, India’s minister for external affairs, is not one who is...
India is blessed with water, but it is misused, abused
Water Series 1 - http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/05/india-faces-a-water-crisis-of-its-opwn-making/ - India’s rapidly deteriorating water crisis
Water series 2 - http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/05/india-should-learn-water-management-from-china/ -- Lessons to learn from China
Water series 3 -- http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/06/the-stranglehold-of-the-water-tanker-mafia/ -- The stranglehold of the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/us-crying-wolf-ukraine-germany-russia-china-involved-in-dirty-cloak-and-daggers-game
Geopolitics
The US is crying wolf: USA, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, China are involved in a dirty cloak and daggers game over NordStream2
RN Bhaskar
For the past week this author has been perplexed by the focussed tirade by BBC and CNN against...
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...
