Tuesday, August 4, 2026
http://www.firstpost.com/business/pan-cards-have-huge-potential-for-fraud-heres-how-govt-could-prevent-misuse-3209132.html PAN cards could lead to big frauds The government has announced that it is working on ways to make the PAN card tamper proof. PAN is an acronym for Permanent account number that each potential taxpayer must have to carry...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2017-should-look-at-these-7-areas-to-kick-start-economy-create-jobs-3216160.html Budget 2017: seven things that could help government galvanise economy and create jobs Jobs needed desperately.  That was the writing on the wall even in 2014.  The refrain continues even for Budget 2017. Yet, 2014 was when Prime Minister Narendra...
https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/delay-in-census-enumeration-unreliable-death-registration-and-fake-aadhaar-cards-adversely-impact-integrity-of-elections-leads-to-misuse-of-public-funds/ Delay in Census enumeration, unreliable death registration and fake Aadhaar cards adversely impact integrity of elections, leads to misuse of public funds By EAS Sarma To Shri A K Bhalla Union Home Secretary Dear Shri Bhalla, The statutory census enumeration exercise, conducted under the Census...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/duties-taxes-corruption-how-the-government-abets-the-smuggling-of-gold-2324877.html Gold - II Part I can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/india-loves-gold1/ Part III can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/can-the-govt-clean-up-the-gold-trade/ Smuggling, corruption and poor low credibility afflict this industry RN Bhaskar Jul 13, 2017 03:11 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com The government itself has abetted the...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-petty-graft-could-sabotage-water-and-waste-management-and-even-the-pms-biggest-schemes-4236081.html Water #10 (Other articles in this series are given below) Water and waste management are crucial to the the PM’s biggest schemes, but they are being sabotaged RN Bhaskar -- July 23, 2019 There are three schemes of Prime minister Narendra Modi which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/budget-2021-banking-and-finance-are-we-putting-the-cart-before-the-horse Budget 2021 hurts both banking and Atma Nirbhar Bharat RN Bhaskar -- 09 Feb 2021 =============================== All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/ ================================ The finance minister has been lauded for her decision to create a bad bank and thus clean...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/demonetisation-impact-chidambaram-is-wrong-indias-gdp-will-soar-even-without-new-jobs-3243304.html Epayment spells boom-times for financial intermediaries RN BhaskarFeb, 02 2017 13:59:54 IST Critics of demonetisation (and epayment) are quick to point out that the de-legalisation of high value notes could lead to a slowdown of the economy. Maybe, it will. But even then...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/russia-and-india-have-begun-to-tango-here-is-why-pm-modis-moscow-visit-is-critical-4472911.html/amp Russia and India have begun to tango RN Bhaskar – 25 Sept 2019 Last week, all news wires were full of developments on the India-Russia front. There was information that India and Russia had tied up to activate a maritime route...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-there-are-no-winners-in-farm-loan-waivers-3314251.html Moneycontrol The pestilence of farm loan-waivers Farm loan waivers represent bad economics, bad banking and promote the wrong type of social values. They end up hurting farmers RN Bhaskar – 21 Dec 2018 Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-governments-jobs-problem-is-serious-but-there-are-solutions-at-hand-2567017.html Yes there is unemployment; but is the government serious about redressing it? This government, if one goes by CMIE estimates, could create only 1.43 million jobs in 2017. This is contrary to what the government wants to claim RN Bhaskar --...