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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-brace-yourself-for-an-economic-slowdown-3401971.html A severe economic slowdown is likely to hit India. . .unless RN Bhaskar – 18 January 2019 The recently released World Bank report on January 8 2019 (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31066/9781464813863.pdf ), confirmed what most people had suspected all along.  The World Bank estimates...

http://www.firstpost.com/business/as-parliament-readies-for-gst-debate-supreme-court-to-decide-on-entry-taxes-2899728.html Are entry taxes unconstitutional? Even as the Narendra Modi government prepares to give one big push to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Monsoon Session of Parliament that began on Monday (18 July), a legal doorway has been...

MARKET PERSPECTIVE By: J Mulraj AUG 5-11, 2023 Can the former innovate fast enough? Some 2400 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said ‘there are, in fact, two things. Science and opinion. The former begets knowledge. The latter begets ignorance.’ Read the...

http://www.firstpost.com/india/marathwada-drought-the-region-is-parched-impoverished-and-desperate-the-exploiters-turned-into-the-exploited-2715116.html Maharashtra is a state full of contradictions. It is a state rife with more inequality than most. And it is a state where each territory tries to exploit, and ends up feeling exploited. The cries for water and the spurt in suicides...

http://www.firstpost.com/business/narendra-modis-israel-visit-how-both-countries-can-draw-on-mutual-dependencies-to-boost-ties-3777533.html India-Israel: Drawing on mutual interdependencies RN BhaskarJul, 05 2017 11:19:31 IST Broadly speaking, India-Israel ties can be summed up by segmenting them into three parts.  The first begins from 17 September, 1950, when India officially recognized the state of Israel.  But in...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/amid-coronavirus-a-fresh-crisis-brews-in-the-indian-milk-industry There is surplus milk production, while milk demand has slumped RN Bhaskar A fresh crisis is brewing in the Indian milk industry.  The causes are two – the current lockdown conditions, and a milk surplus. First, there is no denying that milk...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/coronavirus-pandemic-slums-are-new-hotspots-that-can-ravage-cities-5090381.html Coronavirus: the epidemic could easily ravage cities through its many slums RN Bhaskar  --  31 March, 2020 Last week, the government of Maharashtra formally acknowledged a new problem – slums (https://www.mumbailive.com/en/civic/coronavirus-spreads-to-mumbai-slums-and-chawls-in-ghatkopar-kalina-and-patel-as-4-patients-test-positive-for-covid19-47281). Coronavirus which had spread among the relatively affluent had now...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/uk-continues-to-make-money-from-india The UK Visa office and its money-making ways RN Bhaskar -- July 25, 2019 Commerce and the UK were never strangers.  Napoleon called this country a nation of shopkeepers.  Even during colonisation, the British first came in as a trading company,...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-problem-of-citizenship-and-slum-votebanks-and-the-work-permit-solution-2570637.html Citizenship, votebanks, the Northeast and the need for work permits RN Bhaskar -- May 17, 2018 Last week, the low-hanging clouds burst, both literally and figuratively.  Even as rains descended on parts of the Northeast, the whole region rumbled with sounds...

  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,...