Tuesday, July 28, 2026
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/commodities/gold-needs-some-very-urgently-needed-policy-changes-4820471.html Policy changes for gold urgently required RN Bhaskar  -- January 15, 2020 Successive governments in India have waffled on gold policies for long (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/11/urgent-needfor-gold-reforms/). As a result, the entire gold trade was allowed to either go underground, or go to seed. The...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-is-a-global-servicing-hub-for-alfa-laval-products/1117581 Alfa Laval has big plans for India — By RN Bhaskar and Rahul Nayar | Aug 08, 2017 10:14 am For over three decades, Anantha Padmanabhan has been serving Alfa Laval at various senior and leadership positions in India, Indonesia and Middle East....

India is blessed with water, but it is misused, abused Water Series 1  - http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/05/india-faces-a-water-crisis-of-its-opwn-making/  - India’s rapidly deteriorating water crisis Water series 2 - http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/05/india-should-learn-water-management-from-china/  -- Lessons to learn from China Water series 3 -- http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/06/the-stranglehold-of-the-water-tanker-mafia/  -- The stranglehold of the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/fpj-initiatives/will-budget-2017-change-the-colour-of-money/1014480 Budget 2017 -- many unanswered questions — By RN Bhaskar | Feb 07, 2017 08:05 am Photo by B. L. Soni Budgets in India get dissected ad infinitum. Very often, though, the long-term thought and vision of the Finance Ministry and their subtle...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/warehousing-is-a-great-idea-but-the-linkages-need-to-be-fixed-to-make-it-work-4893161.html Budget2020 Warehousing is a great idea, but the linkages are missing RN Bhaskar -- 1 February 2020 India has an estimated capacity of 162 million MT of agri-warehousing, cold storage, reefer van facilities etc. NABARD will undertake an exercise to map and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-inevitability-of-trumpism Trumpism was an extension of other US crimes of commission and omission RN Bhaskar  --  10 January 2021 “There is always something that isn’t working … (with) people taking a path against the community, against democracy, against the common good,” --Pope Francis...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-plenty-of-talk-on-solar-power-but-where-are-the-policy-underpinnings-2500069.html A huge transformation of the power sector can be expected Making declarations and signing MoUs is one thing. Getting capacity augmented, and making solar power relevant to India is quite another. RN Bhaskar -- Feb 05, 2018 03:47 January was full of...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/gujarat-elections-how-the-hindutva-beef-ban-may-have-actually-hurt-the-bjp-2463527.html Beef ban and Gujarat elections results may have a connection The Bharatiya Janata Party has won an underwhelming victory in Gujarat. And, ironically, one reason the result is a damp squib in this laboratory of Hindutva could be the measures...

The gold mining series- a blessing and a curse December 2020 - January 2021 India is both blessed and cursed.  It is blessed with a geography that can make it rich with gold and other precious metals and rare earths.  But...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/contract-farming-now-has-to-take-roots-in-mp-rajnikant-rai-ceo-itc-agri-business-division/1290275 Contract farming now has to take roots in Madhya Pradesh: Rajnikant Rai, CEO, ITC Agri Business Division — By Pankaj Joshi and R N Bhaskar | Jun 05, 2018   The state of Madhya Pradesh has made rapid progress in the agricultural sector....