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http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/promotion-of-corruption-act-is-now-in-place-r-n-bhaskar/1331485 How to promote corruption by changing the law — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 09, 2018 Last week the government finally got the Parliament to clear the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act (PCAA).  It appears to make the right sounds.  It aims to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/manufacturing-continues-to-disenchant/1114582 Manufacturing gets pushed aside in India — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 03, 2017 06:48 am The government talks about strengthening the manufacturing backbone of India.  Slogans of ‘Make in India’ continue to rent the air. Everyone talks about how this is to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/major-financial-turbulence-ahead-the-rupee-may-weaken-further   Crisis stations in India as the INR may weaken further RN Bhaskar Is India going down the rabbit h9le? The finance minister insists that India’s financial condition is not that bad.  That India’s rupee has weakened less against the US dollar...
Mumbai’s traffic police has huge gaps in its service delivery RN Bhaskar Mumbai has a glorious record of having an efficient police force.  But, over the years, the starch in the upright image of the force is getting crumpled.  Even past...
The dairy sector could be in for more confusions and value destruction By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org    On 3 March 2025, the government’s Press Information Bureau or PIB came up with a very interesting item (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2107807&reg=3&lang=1).  It was titled...
R N Bhaskar January 28, 2014 First, the good news. The government finally cleared a slew of projects worth Rs 1.5 lakh crore what had been gathering dust, possibly because it adopted a suitcase by suitcase approach towards clearances. There was also...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jatin-mehta-files-a-usd-5-billion-suit-against-de-beers-stanchart-and-kroll Kroll's refusal to face facts The Jatin Mehta submissions before the Surat court have squarely put the blame on Kroll, which it says acted in concert with De Beers and SCB. Also see report at https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/ From the court documents, it...
Cough syrup deaths: Why is India FDA protecting promoters and not common human lives? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image sourced using Perplexity.ai   Had it happened in any developed country, chargesheets would have been filed against India’s drug authorities. Key...
R N Bhaskar February 10, 2014 The government's advertisements talk of Bharat Nirman. But numbers tell a different tale. It was evident by 2010 itself that India would have to brace itself for a slowdown of mammoth proportions. Workforce numbers in both organised...
The government abets cybercrime By RN Bhaskar The image has been generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img On 30 June 2025, news headlines talked about how the digital-gold website of Aditya Birla Capital Digital (ABCD) had been hacked (https://www.livemint.com/news/digital-gold-hackers-struck-aditya-birla-capital-digital-weal-encyption-cyber-criminals-ey-india-data-privacy-11751192030975.html).  The company said that it had...