Thursday, February 19, 2026
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...
Maharashtra could soon become part of BIMMARU By RN Bhaskar Image by Kalpesh Mistry Is Maharashtra headed in the same direction that Uttar Pradesh has taken for the past few decades? Will it become another addition to the BIMARU grouping causing a...
The world could change faster than you think RN Bhaskar Recent developments have the potential to compel people to shed any preconceived notions of the way strategies could play out. The world is changing faster than anyone could imagine. The Latin American...
NBFCs become more relevant to India. Is that a risk? RN Bhaskar All of a sudden, there’s renewed interest in what non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) are doing in India.  Some are alarmed.  Some canny observers are happy.  Yet, the whims of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/do-more-with-global-private-investment/1409946 India could do with a lot more of global private investment RN Bhaskar December 6, 2018 India, like the rest of the world, has begun witnessing the growing role of private equity and investment players in this country. On the one...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs RN Bhaskar The claims are tantalizing.  The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...
Trump merely fiddles -- his offerings are poisonous By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img This article is being written amid the fog of war.  One does not know which way this war will end.  But if current indications are considered,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/how-will-india-fund-its-solar-power-plans/840358 How will India fund its solar power plans? Modi’s electoral survival will require more jobs to be created.  Rooftop solar could offer a solution. India faces a huge problem.  It may not have the money or the ability to set...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-power-govt-takes-bolder-steps-finally-r-n-bhaskar/876404 Solar Power: The government finally takes bolder steps For perhaps the first time in decades, India could actually begin scripting a new business model for power generation. Kurien did this through milk. Piyush Goyal, Union minister for power, could do...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulators-3-corruption-is-often-on-account-of-regulatory-processes Regulatory Games 3: Corruption and regulatory processes A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow RN Bhaskar In the first week of September, a news item in a leading...