Monday, October 19, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/rn-bhaskar-india-russia-friends-for-70-years/1051178 India-Russia: Friends for 70 Years — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 12:05 pm Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov arriving in New Delhi 1947 to establish formal diplomatic relations with India It was in Goa, India, that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime...

How India was plundered, again and again Part I – http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/08/government-plunder-productive-states-in-india/ Part II – http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-again-by-tweaking-rules-against-prosperous-states-and-encouraging-profloigacy-irresponsibility/ Part III — http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-iii-through-tax-devolution-and-transfgers/ Part IV — http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/indian-governments-outdid-aurangzeb-they-emasculated-hindu-temples/ Part V :  http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-v-many-ways-plundering-india/ ——————————————
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/good-portfolios-are-made-during-bad-times-mistakes-are-made-during-good-times-aseem-dhru-founder-ceo-of-sbfc Bad times help identify good portfolios says Aseem Dhru of SDFC Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar  --  January 18, 2021 MSME-focused SBFC Finance has grown significantly in just three years. Today, the NBFC’s Assets Under Management (AUM) stand at Rs 3,516...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/covid-19-march-will-soon-become-a-terrifying-sprint-in-india Covid-19 -- the government has been caught swimming naked RN Bhaskar Today is Tuberculosis  (TB) Day.  Unlike coronavirus, where a vaccine has yet to be developed – it could take anywhere between a year to several years – tuberculosis has a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-has-become-key-focus-area-for-netafims-ceo-ran-maidan/1022717 For Netafim, India will become a bigger market than the US — By RN Bhaskar | Feb 21, 2017 08:09 am Israel’s Netafim is the world’s largest micro-irrigation company. For several decades, the US has been its largest market. But times are changing,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/opinion-how-our-laws-are-increasingly-undermining-war-against-corruption-2872271.html Are some people above the law? Sadly, legislators forget that when laws get corroded either by inaction or through amendments, or through moves that make the collection of evidence difficult, the very fabric of governance gets frayed. RN Bhaskar -- Aug...
NMMC tries making money from a notified area of MIDC (Parts II and III of this series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-ii/ and http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-iii/ There’s an ill-wind blowing across the Trans Thane Creek MIDC (popularly known as TTC-MIDC). It is the premier MIDC...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/tata-power-is-setting-up-the-worlds-largest-rural-electrification-sustainability-project Tata Power: Powering rural micro-entrepreneurship through clean energy TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power has launched what could be termed as the world’s largest sustainability programme of renewable energy for rural areas.  It has covered more than...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/commodities/gold-needs-some-very-urgently-needed-policy-changes-4820471.html Policy changes for gold urgently required RN Bhaskar  -- January 15, 2020 Successive governments in India have waffled on gold policies for long (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/11/urgent-needfor-gold-reforms/). As a result, the entire gold trade was allowed to either go underground, or go to seed. The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-us-has-just-given-the-eu-a-kiss-of-death The US has just given the EU a kiss of death RN Bhaskar Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30 August 2022 ( he was born on 2 March 1931).  And when he died, there was a confused pain among Russians, and a...