https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/india-forgot-about-the-water-footprint-4155691.html
India forgot about the water-footprint
Water series #7 -- other articles in this series are listed below
RN Bhaskar – 1 July 2019
In November 2004, UNESCO brought out a series of papers compiled by A.Y. Hoekstra which were aimed at making...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/will-lithium-become-the-new-bottleneck-2476297.html
Lithium is in demand. Will it outstrip supply?
Solar and wind power – even hydro power – cannot be stored. They must be consumed, or the energy is lost. That is why the battery becomes important. And the best...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/comment-farms-destroy-value-not-because-of-farmers-but-because-of-the-government-2521885.html
Farms remain a value destroyer, not because of farmers but because of the government
RN Bhaskar-- Mar 06, 2018 03:52 PM IST
To some extent the euphoria might be justified. Increasing farm production does normally mean higher incomes for farmers.
Most media...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/true-anywhere-else-banks-wouldve-settled-with-mallya-but-nowhere-else-hed-have-got-the-loan-2757580.html
Was Mallya wronged?
In some ways, Vijay Mallya, Chairman of the UB group of companies, may be right. He does rightly point out in a recent interview to Financial Times that the speed with which his passport was revoked is unprecedented in India’s...
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...
Godda Power Plant Powers Up Bangladesh
Adani Power Begins Supplying Competitive Thermal Power to friendly Neighbouring Nation
Synopsis
· The ultra super critical thermal power plant‘s First unit of 800 MW out of 2x800 MW starts supplying Bangladesh with 748 MW of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-union-minister-piyush-goyal-got-it-wrong-about-retail-trade-and-ecommerce
Five things that Minister Piyush Goyal was totally wrong about.
By RN Bhaskar
August 2021 was a dark day for India. Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Commerce (whom the government has also made minister for textiles and consumer affairs, food, and...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/hydroponics-the-future-of-agriculture/1237244
HiMedia looks at hydroponics
— By Jescilia Karayamparambil & R N Bhaskar | Mar 14, 2018
Mumbai : In one of the many offices of HiMedia Laboratories in Mumbai, there is a lab that is working on basic research relating to plants –...
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.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/investors-who-have-worked-with-ashoka-buildcon-are-very-happy-satish-parakh-2-3114801.html
Satish Parakh believes that Ashoka Buildcon has a great future
Ashoka Buildcon has survived the financial turbulence of the past four years, and has continued to thrive. Recently, it announced a bonus issue which thrilled shareholders.
November 1, 2018
Five years ago,...
