https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-the-governments-gold-policies-make-indias-neighbours-richer-and-this-country-itself-poorer-4574121.html
India's gold policies have impoverished the country
RN Bhaskar -- Oct 25 2019
In 2013, P Chidambaram decided to impose a 10% import duty on gold (https://in.reuters.com/article/india-tax-finmin/gold-duty-raised-to-record-10-percent-as-imports-revive-idINDEE97C03J20130813). The finance minister was quite savvy about the way financial markets work.
He knew too...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/slush-around-defence-deals-bribe-givers-are-penalised-but-bribe-takers-are-seldom-convicted-2823408.html#disqus_thread
Slush around defence bribery deals: no major defence scam has resulted in a conviction
Last month, the Government of India announced that it was cancelling the Rs 1,800 crore deal with Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei (WASS). The reason: WASS is...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-floating-solar-set-to-make-a-splash-2560037.html
Floating solar gains allure
RN Bhaskar -- Apr 30, 2018
Floating solar power projects have suddenly caught the fancy of the government. Eight projects were announced recently, and two more projects have their tenders still open. But more on that later.
The...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-has-begun-to-make-waves/
India has begun to make waves
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 11, 2015 01:11 am
There’s a lot going on in media nowadays that makes one believe that India is going downhill. It could be an orchestrated approach to malign the...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/india-has-tremendous-advantage-in-solar-power-space-but-where-is-the-money-2746748.html
The scorching pace of solar power – III
This is the 3rd article in a five part series. The others can be found at:
Part I: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/is-fear-of-bankruptcy-forcing-oil-rich-saudi-turn-to-solar-power-wait-for-25-april-html/
Part II: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/crashing-prices-india-can-gain-immensely-solar-power-space/
Part IV: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/india-not-learn-germanys-hermann-scheer-solar-power-model/
Part V: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/you-snooze-you-lose-early-entrant-germany-scores-over-india-in-rooftop-solar-power-scheme-html/
There is the crisp static of expectation in the...
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...
INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Oct 1-7, 2022
The environment be damned
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to impose a huge burden on the global economy, (especially the EU economies), on global trade and on the environment. The pledges made...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/comment-what-makes-madhya-pradesh-tick-2583155.html
Madhya Pradesh economy snapshot
During the past 12 years, ever since Shivraj Singh Chauhan became the MP chief minister in 2005, the state has witnessed a blistering pace of growth in agriculture
RN Bhaskar -- Jun 05, 2018
Some 15 years ago,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-slum-creation-is-a-mammoth-scam-across-indian-cities-and-towns-2961321.html
Slums: the destruction of democracy and financial propriety
Slum formation and protection is nothing short of demographic tinkering on the one hand, and buying votes on the other
RN Bhaskar -- Sep 18, 2018
Last week, in a quiet move, the government...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/farmers-on-the-war-path-solution-lies-not-in-msp-but-in-giving-farmers-a-share-in-the-revenue-5313951.html
Farmers on the warpath – expected and inevitable
RN Bhaskar - Oct 4, 2018
In many ways, the agitation by farmers around Delhi and Gaziabad was to have been expected. India is moving rapidly towards general elections. Each constituent of India’s...
