Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/this-is-how-government-can-clean-up-gold-trade-and-make-it-both-healthy-profitable-2327393.html
Gold - III :
Three steps which can clean up the gold trade in India
(part-I can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/india-loves-gold1/; and
part II at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/07/duties-taxes-corruption-government-abets-smuggling-gold/)
Rn bhaskar Jul 17, 2017 02:40 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
The need for a fresh approach...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/law-and-judiciary-more-sloganeering-less-vision
The judicial and the extra-judicial -- will there be a faceoff?
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar
India has always been good at coining phrases. They sound impressive. They suggest a caring and concerned...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/business/atma-nirbhar-doesnt-it-mean-self-sufficiency-and-promoting-honest-ways-of-doing-business/12637a11-2dd0-4d3e-b2f2-a0d8f46de60b
Atma Nirbhar for MSMEs -- mixed messaging, little audit, and an encouragement to default on loans
RN Bhaskar -- 16 May 2020
A few days ago, Prime Minister Modi outlined details of a Rs.20 lakh package his government had outlined for...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/why-did-the-government-continue-importing-pulses-when-domestic-production-was-growing-3430972.html
Pulse of the nation - III
A story of how pulses imports drove domestic growers to the ground
Part I – Introduction. Misplaced fallacies.
Part 1I talks about why wheat and rice have grabbed the politician-policymakers minds’. And how this has...
The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more. Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is the accusation that the...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/the-electrifying-plan-that-would-create-83-million-jobs-from-solar-energy-2410301.html
Decentralised, cluster rooftop solar could trigger employment growth in India
RN Bhaskar - Oct 11, 2017 04:20 PM IST
The key reason for not creating enough jobs has been the inability of the government’s planners to think out of the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-future-may-lie-more-with-russia-and-china-than-with-the-us-writes-rn-bhaskar
India’s future may lie more with Russia and China than with the US
RN Bhaskar
In 2009, this author had predicted that India, China and Russia would have to work together (https://asiaconverge.com/2009/03/will-india-china-russia-dance-togetherincreasing-water-needs-will-china-dehydrate-india/). Geo-politics suggested this combination. During the past 15 years,...
Xiaomi is shamelessly disdainful about the inconvenience it causes to customers, especially the disabled
Please also refer to https://asiaconverge.com/2023/06/customercare-at-xiaomi-sucks/ which is the first part of this sorry saga.
On 14 June, 2023, I wrote to Xiaomi, informing me about how it...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/transformation-of-maharashtra-industry-revitalised-webinar-mahas-goal-of-1-trillion-remains-unchanged-despite-the-pandemic
MIDC confident of achieving a US$ 1 trillion output soon
By Jescilia Karayamparambil - April 5, 2021,
When you are among the best performers, then the expectations around such performers are also high. Thus, when India aspires to become a five-trillion...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/union-budget-2019-will-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-be-able-to-salvage-the-agriculture-sector-6872501.html
Union Budget 2019: Will the Union Budget salvage the agriculture sector?
RN Bhaskar – June 24, 2019
Within a few weeks, the government will unveil its financial programmes for India. This time the budget will be watched more keenly than at...
