Monday, June 15, 2026
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/want-to-uproot-corruption-try-this/980341 Want to uproot corruption? Try this How does one win confidence of people, and also strengthen the Indian economy? That is no easy task. After all, most Indians feel deprived; and vulnerable. India remains a country where 53% of its wealth...
Great plans for an India-ME-Europe corridor to mimic China’s BRI By RN Bhaskar On 9 September, the US While House put out a notification (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/09/fact-sheet-world-leaders-launch-a-landmark-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor/).  It informed the world the following: “Today, we the leaders of the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, the...
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 are largely law-abiding, they...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-did-rbi-and-the-government-allow-the-npa-loot/1273740 Essar, Videocon and other NPAs - did RBI and the government abet this? RN Bhaskar | May 10, 2018 Bank NPAs are bleeding India. Yet, on 14 March 2018, the RBI governor, Urjit Patel bemoaned the fact that he had more power to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/north-indias-demographic-time-bomb-r-n-bhaskar/825303 Will North India trigger the end of the India dream? In an insightful document that Ambit Capital brought out on 5 April this year, (on Sizing India’s demographic bomb), the authors highlight a stark reality that confronts India. It talks about...
R N Bhaskar It came in as a thunderclap. In mid-May, speaking at the Business and Climate Conference in Paris, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Minerals, dropped a bombshell. He announced that fossil fuels wouldn’t be necessary in Saudi Arabia by...
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...
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/policy-watch-what-to-look-out-for-in-budget-202 Budget 2020 might be an eyeweash without these changes RN Bhaskar  --  30 January 2020 This article appears on these pages just a day before the budget.  It is too late to suggest what the government should do.  But it is...