Saturday, February 21, 2026
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.freepressjournal.in/business/approach-towards-market-regulation-is-headmaster-student-in-india ANM: Speaking up for brokerages By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar Recently, the stockbrokers’ body, Association of National Exchange Members of India (ANMI), raised concern over the proposal to lower the settlement cycle for completion of share transactions to T+1 ....
Why is MIDC silent? For Part I see here (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-i/) Legally speaking, MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) properties are ‘notified’ territories.  This means that nobody can use any part of this area for residential real estate development purposes, as it is...
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...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj Dec 13-19, 2025 Or does nobody want to stop the music of passing the parcel? Image created using chatGPT Global debt (sovereign plus corporate plus household) has grown to $ 315 trillion, more than 3X global GDP. One wondered...
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.moneycontrol.com/news/business/between-smiles-and-sorrows-world-bank-forecasts-india-gdp-rise-but-raises-unemployment-concerns-2558785.html World Bank's fears and expectations about India The report says that “40 emerging market and developing economies are projected to grow more slowly in per capita terms than advanced economies, failing to narrow income gaps vis-à-vis the group of more...
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...
Delimitation of Indian states -- rewarding the Hindi belt By EAS Sarma This is a copy of a letter from EAS Sarma to the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, about the dangers of delimitation without freezing the population...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/going-beyond-germany-trying-to-help-other-countries-to-deal-with-paedophilia/1069539 Paedophilia is an ailment that needs treatment — By RN Bhaskar | May 17, 2017 06:22 pm Dr. Klaus M Beier was in India in March 2017 (http://bit.ly/2pBWCh1). He is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which...