https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/stanchart-seeks-to-control-the-destiny-of-indian-banks-and-profit-foreign-firms-says-rn-bhaskar-2
Stanchart seeks to control the destiny of Indian banks and profit foreign firms
RN Bhaskar
To understand how Standard Chartered Bank (SCB or Stanchart) works in India, one has only to go to the way it acted in the matter relating...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/will-maharashtra-alienate-rural-votes-rn-bhaskar/794453
Will Maharashtra alienate rural votes?
The finance minister may have made major announcements to boost agriculture. But in BJP ruled Maharashtra, agriculture remains one of the most exploited sectors. Some of these measure could grievously hurt the ruling party’s votebanks....
De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts
RN Bhaskar
For many diamond industry watchers, De Beers was always too big a player to pick up a fight with. It has eliminated competition ruthlessly, as the following paragraphs will show. ...
R N Bhaskar
March 3, 2014
The Maharashtra government has just tabled a bill to change the cutoff date for recognising slums - from 1995 to 2000. This is against a Bombay High Court order, which was challenged by the state,...
The Census is needed urgently post elections
By RN Bhaskar
The Bing-generated image about elections suggests many things – the watchful eyes of the lion looms over the election booth. The peaceful wait of citizens outside polling booths. The Ashoka lion...
Trump blows his own trumpet amid ruins
By RN Bhaskar
Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img
Ever since Donald Trump assumed the office of the President of the US (for a second time), matters appear to be getting worse for the US. But Trump...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-swiss-banks-and-black-money-r-n-bhaskar/1310375
India's black money may not be in Swiss Banks
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 05, 2018
Last week the political climate was charged with accusations that the government had actually begun encouraging the promotion of black money. Prima facie, the charges...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/nothing-is-quiet-on-the-farm-loan-waiver-front/1433503
The farm loan waiver front is getting messier
RN Bhaskar -- January 10, 2019
Fiscal discipline threatens to go entirely haywire – at least where some states are concerned.
And it has come in the form of farm-loan waivers. This author has...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/death-with-dignity-gains-legality-in-the-uk/1175058
India dithers over death with dignity
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 23, 2017 08:10 am
Last week, this newspaper talked about (http://www.freepressjournal.in/world/indian-origin-pharmacist-cleared-of-elderly-dads-murder/1172908) how a UK High Court judge, Justice Green, threw out a murder charge against a chemist. The chemist, a...
R N Bhaskar
13 July 2015
There are signs of gloom. People have already begun grumbling, even accusing the government of causing a slowdown. A major pointer is the dipping flow of investments into India. Is the Indian economy sinking?
Maybe not....
