https://www.firstpost.com/business/splurging-money-on-mega-welfare-schemes-sans-planning-not-wise-govt-should-find-a-way-to-make-them-productive-6154241.html
From splurge to dirge – this this the future for India?
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 26, 2019
In the few months leading to the general elections, the government has launched least two ‘largest-in-the-world’ schemes. One is the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/now-power-your-gadgets-with-sea-waves-energy
Wave energy could become the next big source of energy
Rebello Dominic | RN Bhaskar
Statistically Wave Energy alone can produce twice the amount of electricity that the world produces now
A nuclear disaster survivor, Inna Braverman is the Founder...
Souece: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/the-story-of-indias-uncertified-deaths-why-the-grim-reaper-cant-link-up-with-aadhaar-2365737.html
Death and Aadhaar don't mix
R.N.Bhaskar -- Aug 21, 2017 08:07 PM
Linking deaths to Aadhaar would have allowed the government to know when to terminate entitlements and direct transfer of benefits to a recipient once deceased.
Recently, the government flip-flopped...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/kanjurmarg-metro-shed-mmrdas-fight-for-the-future-of-mumbai-and-india
Get MMRDA's metro lines rolling in Mumbai
RN Bhaskar - March 10, 2021
Within the next one week, the courts will decide whether Mumbai deserves the chance to plan for a century ahead, or to think development piece-meal. At stake is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-union-minister-piyush-goyal-got-it-wrong-about-retail-trade-and-ecommerce
Five things that Minister Piyush Goyal was totally wrong about.
By RN Bhaskar
August 2021 was a dark day for India. Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Commerce (whom the government has also made minister for textiles and consumer affairs, food, and...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/environment/opinion-govt-must-not-look-the-other-way-at-these-rat-hole-mines-3351001.html
The Meghalaya mining disaster shows how the country has woken up again to the proliferation of illegal mines
RN Bhaskar -- Jan 03, 2019
Even as this article is being written, rescue operations are underway to evacuate the 15 miners trapped...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-as-thailand-plans-maintenance-hub-for-planes-will-india-be-caught-napping-2541081.html
If India does not wake up, Thailand's MRO could trounce AIES
The announcement made many in India sit up. If the Thailand project were to gain traction, it could well stymie some of India’s plans
RN Bhaskar - Apr 02, 2018...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/storm-clouds-gather-on-indias-economic-front/1418661
India's economic front could face terribly turbulent times
RN Bhaskar -- 20 December 2018
It is not often that one gets decent data on India’s economic performance. Even annexures to replies to Lok Sabha statements are not available any more. Hence...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/govts-refusal-to-tax-agriculture-raises-many-questions-it-goes-against-principles-of-equality-3437302.html
Should agriculture be taxed. No says, Jaitely. Why not, say others.
RN BhaskarMay, 11 2017 11:18:37 IST
In the last week of April 2017, Niti Aayog member Bibek Debroy lobbed what could euphemistically be called a hot potato into the lap...
