http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/when-will-the-budget-provisions-actually-liberate-this-yellow-metal-2507939.html
Budget 2018 and gold -- a long way to go yet
To understand how significant the provisions of the Budget are, one must go back in the past where gold was largely been treated only as a commodity – albeit...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/maharashtra-farmers-agitation-state-worst-performer-in-irrigation-policymakers-deserve-to-be-put-on-trial-5593031.html
The farmers’ long march to further distress
RN Bhaskar -- Nov 22, 2018
The chickens are finally coming home to roost. Thousands of farmers in Maharashtra have started a long march from Thane to Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Included in this...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget-2020-airconditioned-freight-for-perishable-food-cost-will-be-the-critical-factor-4894101.html
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Airconditioned freight? Who will bear the cost?
RN Bhaskar -- 1 February 2020
To build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, inclusive of milk, meat and fish, the Indian Railways will set up a “Kisan Rail” – through PPP...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/traffic-violations-misplaced-sentiments-loopholed-policies-and-sticky-fingers-2448969.html
Traffic violations and misplaced sentiments
Traffic police in Mumbai recently towed away an illegally parked car with a woman inside feeding her baby. Could the cops have reacted differently? And who is to blame? Big questions and answers are few...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/union-amc-aims-to-double-its-aum-in-fy-2022-to-launch-money-market-fund-soon
Union AMC's Pradeepkumar aims to double its AUM in FY 2022; to launch money market fund soon
Jescilia Karayamparambil | RN Bhaskar
Union AMC aims to double its AUM in FY 2022; to launch money market fund soon |...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/satin-creditcare-is-better-off-in-covid-19-times-due-to-rural-presence-says-h-p-singh
Interview -H P Singh -Satin Creditcare
Microfinance has been doing well in these times
By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar -- Sept 4, 2020
A law graduate and fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, H P Singh, has come...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/govt-should-stop-interfering-with-how-iims-should-be-run-better-focus-on-primary-secondary-education-5702601.html
Leave them IIMs alone . . . . .
RN Bhaskar Dec 10, 2018
There is good news and bad for the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).
The good news is that the government has allowed the IIMs to become independent...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/2021-will-be-about-changing-the-narrative-about-zoom-says-sameer-raje-head-of-zoom-india
Sameer Raje -- narratives through Zoom
By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar -- March 10, 2021
Over a Zoom call, Sameer Raje, Country head of Zoom India waits for the interview with FPJ’s Jescilia Karayamparambil and R N Bhaskar to begin....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/goodness-at-the-grassroots
Priti Adani focusses on the grassroots
21 October, 2019
A good corporate enterprise is not just about an organisation with a business plan and one which generates profits. It is also one which touches people’s lives – starting from those who...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/opinion-please-leave-msme-interest-rates-alone-3207301.html
It is both stupid and dangerous to tinker with MSME interest rates
Banks are already weakened by bad loans. Concessional interest rates and forcing them to increase their allocation of funds to MSMEs from the existing 20-25 percent is not...
