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Interview
Biplab Kumar Deb wants to make Tripura an economic powerhouse
Biplab Kumar Deb became chief minister of Tripura on 9 March 2018 at the age of 47/ He was the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since January...
Without justice India cannot progress
Part 1
The judiciary’s fabric is frayed, thanks primarily to the government . . .
Why should legislators and bureaucrats have longer tenures than judges? It should be the other way around. Are judicial vacancies a way...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/new-government-will-inherit-unpaid-infrastructure-bill-of-rs-12-4-lakh-crore-3937001.html
Unpaid bills for the new government
RN Bhaskar -- May 06, 2019
The latest report titled ‘Status of Infrastructure projects’, from CARE Ratings (dated 18 April 2019) makes for interesting reading. But reading between the numbers, it becomes evident that the...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/euthanasia-debate-all-you-need-to-know-about-how-other-countries-dealt-with-right-to-die-2785488.html
Do you know how many countries have made euthanasia legal?
One of the first countries that decided to promote the cause euthanasia was Switzerland. The Swiss Criminal Code, which became effective on 1 January 1942, penalizes assistance in suicide out...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/argentinas-g20-sherpa-pedro-villagra-delgado-womens-empowerment-needed-for-care-system-to-scale-up/1242940
Argentina’s G20 Sherpa, Pedro Villagra Delgado: Agriculture is an important issue
— By Pankaj Joshi and R N Bhaskar | Mar 23, 2018
The G20 group of nations, currently presided over by Argentina, has been among the opinion leaders in global matters....
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/when-will-the-budget-provisions-actually-liberate-this-yellow-metal-2507939.html
Budget 2018 and gold -- a long way to go yet
To understand how significant the provisions of the Budget are, one must go back in the past where gold was largely been treated only as a commodity – albeit...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/banking-is-becoming-messier-in-india-rn-bhaskar
The easiest way to thieve is by focussing on banks
RN Bhaskar -- 19 December 2019
In her statement before Parliament on November 19, 2019, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that public sector banks had reported fraud worth Rs 95,760 crore...
Amazon’s customer unfriendliness
RN Bhaskar
Despite half a dozen calls to Amazon and its local office in the past few months (https://twitter.com/rnbhaskar1/status/1775011149408264299) and despite several assurances that my orders will be delivered to me properly, last night my order was cancelled.
What...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.htmlhttps://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.html
Water series-1 (list of the entire series given at the end of this article)
India’s rapidly worsening water crisis
RN Bhaskar -- May 21, 2019
The old talk about water wars may not be entirely true today. But in India it could...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-air-india-goes-into-a-free-fall-but-is-nobody-to-be-blamed-1924458
Air-India -- a story of corruption, mismanagement and greed
If one wants to get an inkling of the mess at Air India -- the merged entity of the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air-India -- do not go to the annual...
