Saturday, May 16, 2026
Modi warms up to China By RN Bhaskar Image generated through  https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img In some ways, one could say that Prime minister Modi has the proverbial nine lives of a cat. His visit to Tianjin in China this September could provide him a...
Education: India gloats, but shrivels under scrutiny RN Bhaskar Image generated by https://deepai.org/ On April 3, 2025, media headlines talked about how the state government of Maharashtra scrapping the “one state, one uniform” policy. It said that individual School Management Committees (SMCs),...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/why-no-transparency-in-funding-by-insurance-cos/1506508 Why is there no disclosure of investments by insurance companies? RN Bhaskar April 18, 2019 On 11 April, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (or SEBI) issued a circular (No. SEBI/HO/IMD/DF2/CIR/P/2019/57).  It is addressed to all  Mutual Funds...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-india-needs-a-national-policy-on-waste-management-2011519 India needs a national policy on waste management True, there are other municipalities that have also blundered, but without either a concrete plan, or even a transparent tendering process. A case in point is the way the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)...
Reinsurance and the dangers for India RN Bhaskar Reinsurance markets are in a state of confusion.  They cannot comprehend what could have driven the IRDAI (an acronym for Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India -- https://irdai.gov.in/) to come up with...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/transform-india-through-jobs-wealth-generation/1536648 Wealth generation and jobs are urgently needed RN Bhaskar – May 30, 2019 The new government is in place, with a larger mandate than the previous one.  Obviously, people expect it to fulfill their aspirations. The trouble is that jobs and wealth...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-the-abject-state-of-medicare-in-india/1008722 India's Medicate -- terrible state; forgotten objectives How does medicare fare in India?  The blunt answer is that nobody really knows.  There is very little data available.  Or at least, if the data is available with the government, little goes...
https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-policy-watch-india-splurges-51-of-water-it-could-have-otherwise-saved-1995733 India splurges over half the water it gets Monday, 16 June 2014 - 6:26am IST | Agency: DNA | R N Bhaskar If the next wars would be fought for water, it is time to look at how countries manage their...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gst-actually-promote-a-cashless-economy/1459489 GST can even encourage cash transactions RN Bhaskar February 14, 2019 There’s a restaurant in Ballard Estate in Mumbai which is frequented by many upper middle-class customers.  It is one of the few organised sector restaurants that refuses to accept payment...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/agnipath-indias-trial-by-fire Agnipath: India's trial by fire? RN Bhaskar There are riots on the streets in many states (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/violent-protest-continues-over-agnipath-scheme-in-bihar). In a bid to douse the fires, the government increased the recruitment age from 21 to 23 (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/agnipath-scheme-upper-age-limit-for-recruitment-process-for-2022-increased-to-23-years). But this may not help. The...