The gold mining series- a blessing and a curse
December 2020 - January 2021
India is both blessed and cursed. It is blessed with a geography that can make it rich with gold and other precious metals and rare earths. But...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/water-usage-lessons-india-should-learn-from-china-4026441.html
Water Series 2: Lessons to learn from China on water management
(Other articles in this series are given below)
RN Bhaskar -- May 27, 2019
The origins of this article lie in what this author wrote in the first quarter of 2009...
India plundered V:
There are countless ways in which Indians are being looted
RN Bhaskar – 28 September 2020
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The other parts of this series can be found at
http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/the-plunder-series/
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There are many ways in which Indians are plundered by the government. And while...
China begins serious work on social governance structures
RN Bhaskar
On November 17, 2019, the People’s Government of Wuxing District, Houzhou, China, held its inauguration ceremony of the Nan Taihu Social Governance Institute. It marked the birth of a thinktank dedicated...
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...
India’ economy is not as robust as the RBI report claims
RN Bhaskar
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) just brought into the public domain its annual report for 2022-23 (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/AnnualReportPublications.aspx?year=2023). As always, economy watchers wait for this...
New Blueprint, New Opportunities
By Guocai Tang, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Mumbai
Views expressed here are personal
2020 is a year of outstanding challenges and has a far-reaching impact in human history. Towards the end of the...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/interview-tata-power-ceo-praveer-sinha-says-best-positioned-to-deal-with-coming-disruptions-in-energy-markets-2582025.html
Tata Power rides the disruption wave
"I strongly feel that distribution will open up post the 2019 election and there will be immense opportunities that will come up," he says.
RN Bhaskar -- Jun 04, 2018
Praveer Sinha, the newly appointed managing...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/going-beyond-germany-trying-to-help-other-countries-to-deal-with-paedophilia/1069539
Paedophilia is an ailment that needs treatment
— By RN Bhaskar | May 17, 2017 06:22 pm
Dr. Klaus M Beier was in India in March 2017 (http://bit.ly/2pBWCh1). He is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/beware-the-merchant-charge-that-could-boost-gdp-spur-inflation-2459237.html
Will India’s GDP start soaring because of MDR?
RN Bhaskar -- Dec 11, 2017 06:45 PM IST
It now appears that merchant discount rates --the rate paid by a merchant to a bank for providing debit card services -- may...
