NMDC’s lust for foreign gold is mysterious indeed
NMDC rushes to seek gold overseas, when goldfields and mine development are pending in India.
RN Bhaskar
On 5 November, NMDC made an unusual announcement – captured by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-nmdc-subsidiary-legacy-iron-ore-mine-gold-australia-2023-11-05/). It said that it...
R N Bhaskar
3 August 2015
Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-should-not-be-trusted-with-banks/1198570
The government is responsible for bank NPAs
— By RN Bhaskar | Jan 04, 2018 08:34 am
A seminal document, that CARE Ratings brought out on December 27, 2017, showed how precariously perched India’s banks are.
In that list (see chart alongside) CARE Ratings...
In the Bing generated image above, the onlooker observes how pygmies try to weigh down a larger and more powerful person. That can be a terrible tragedy when the big and powerful are sought to be pulled down by...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-invest-in-india-right-message-wrong-approach
Invest in India – right message, wrong approach
RN Bhaskar
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited global funds and businesses -- which have about $6 trillion of assets under management -- to invest in India. He pitched the nation as...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-textiles-ii-apparel-apparition
T & A II: Missing a sound apparel policy
RN Bhaskar - The first part of this article can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2021/11/indias-textiles-and-apparels-can-achieve-a-lot-more/)
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-droning-government-and-its-wake-up-call-for-drones
The government wakes up to the urgent need to open u0p the market for drones
RN Bhaskar
You can always count on the Indian government to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (With apologies to Winston Churchill)
Roll...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-could-learn-a-lot-from-post-covid-19-spending-patterns-in-china
India must be forward looking, not defensive, as is evident frompost-Covid-19 spending-patterns
RN Bhaskar – 13 August, 2020
After a country has been hit by a pandemic, how should people spend money? Different cultures spend money differently. There are countries where...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/speedy-dispute-resolution-will-silence-drumbeats-of-jobs/1522321
Job creation depends on speedy dispute resolution
RN Bhaskar -- May 09, 2019
The clamour of drum-beats grows louder. If it was a rallying war cry in 2014 – Narendra Modi’s elevation as prime minister was partly on account of this...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-makes-farmers-more-sarkar-nirbhar-not-atma-nirbhar-writes-rn-bhaskar
The government makes farmers more sarkar nirbhar, not atma nirbhar
RN Bhaskar
Last week, the government shocked economy watchers when it announced an extension of the ban on futures trading in select agricultural commodities for a year. It would appear that...
