https://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2022-why-provisions-for-agriculture-and-the-poor-are-laughable-with-no-attempt-to-reward-the-efficient-10341031.html
Budget2022
Everyone seems to be smiling, but the strains are visible
RN Bhaskar
The Budget papers have been presented before the Parliament. At the time this article is being written actual numbers for education and health are not available. The education budget...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/mission-paani-authorities-slip-up-badly-on-waste-management-even-water-harvesting-4204031.html
Water Series #9
Other articles in this series are listed below.
The govt slips up badly on waste-management, even water harvesting
RN Bhaskar – July 15, 2019
Once the water is made available, it must be preserved. That is where water harvesting comes...
Doing business with the dead?
Those who do not respect the dead cannot be expected to respect the living either. And democracy and elections cease to have any meaning if rampant impersonation and dummy voting is permitted. Remember the brilliant...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/flying-higher-and-higher-with-haier
The incredible growth path of Haier in India and elsewhere
13 November 2019
Haier Appliances (India) P. Ltd is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Haier Group. It likes to remain low-key in its announcements to media, yet manages to be...
https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fanciful-figures-of-uttar-pradesh/64715.html
Uttar Pradesh and the numbers it conjures up
RN Bhaskar
When prime minister Narendra Modi described the Covid management of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as “commendable”, or even “unprecedented”, it made even the most neutral of economy watchers squirm uncomfortably. The same...
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,...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/some-red-flags-in-the-economy-numbers-agriculture-is-the-most-alarming-2477189.html
Economic growth continues to falter. Watch agriculture
When agriculture’s GVA growth climbed from -0.2% in 2014-15, to 0.7% in 2015-16, everyone expected agriculture to continue doing well. This was confirmed by this growth rate further rising to 4.9% in 2016-17....
http://www.firstpost.com/india/iit-fees-hike-jump-from-rs-90000-a-year-to-rs-2-lakh-is-still-not-high-enough-and-heres-why-2718988.html
The Union ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) has just announced that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will increase their annual tuition fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh. “A decision to hike the fee over two-fold...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/we-always-want-to-deliver-value-products-to-the-customer-says-xtep-general-manager-antone-liu
XTEP - from footwear to trendy wear
‘We always want to deliver value products to the customer’, says Xtep General Manager, Antone Liu
XTep focuses on R&D, quality, technology and designs in all its products, he adds
Rebello Dominic RN BhaskarUpdated: Monday,...
