http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coins-judicial-overreach-or-administrative-underreach-r-n-bhaskar/920234
Does the govt have any policy for coins at all?
Once again, the courts have to take charge of simple administrative decisions. This is primarily on account of the ineptness on the part of the executive. Contributing to this flaw...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-strong-undercurrents-stronger-demand-r-n-bhaskar/916018
Policy Watch:
Gold has not lost its allure
Gold continues to fascinate and perplex. Unlike as during the earlier two decades, central banks the world over have been net purchasers of gold. Earlier they were net sellers. Most analysts believe that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/king-coals-rise-decline-and-eventual-fall-r-n-bhaskar/912190
King Coal is rapidly losing market relevance
Few thought this would ever happen. In fact, if you plot a chart of coal demand in the UK for the period 1860 till 2020 (http://about.bnef.com/presentations/liebreich-state-of-the-industry-keynote-bnef-summit-2016/ also see chart), the image tells you...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-awards-india-shaken-and-unprepared-r-n-bhaskar/908045
Policy Watch
Arbitration awards: India learns the high cost of shoddy planning in business and policy
r.n.bhaskar
It is déjà vu all over again. At least three arbitration awards threaten to change the way the country will do business. At stake is...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-stop-illegal-mining-before-it-distorts-indian-economy-r-n-bhaskar/903219
Illegal mining: It thrived under the UPA; it continue to thrive even today. . .
When the present government came to power, one thought that illegal mining would get throttled. This was because, all along, the common perception was that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-medicare-damns-the-entire-country-r-n-bhaskar/898333
India's medicare: disallow cow slaughter, but not human slaughter
Most sociologists insist that the two crucial indicators which point to a government’s commitment to improving the lot of its people are education and health. The first allows people to grow. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/more-homework-needed-for-industrialisation-r-n-bhaskar/893790
MIDC: How industry gets sabotaged, land-grab abetted, and extortion ignored
The Constitution of India has a very interesting section which most people are not very familiar with. It is Article 243 Q (c) which states that municipal corporations should be...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-methane-await-better-days-r-n-bhaskar/889111
Solar & methane: The best days are yet to come
June was a month which actually made many Indians realise the enormous opportunities that lie ahead. Even in these politically turbulent times, India has the potential to trounce disbelievers, and...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-biggest-laundromat-agriculture-r-n-bhaskar/884663
A 100 years' taxes can be found through India’s agriculture laundromat
Is is Rs.2,000 lakh crore or Rs.674 lakh crore, or Rs.199 lakh crore? Any which way you look at it, the figures are disturbingly high! But these are figures...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/stressed-assets-sometimes-crooks-squeal-loudest-r-n-bhaskar/880378
Stressed assets: Scamsters try to squeal their way out
Over the last fortnight, most headlines talked about Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), deciding to go back to academics after his term with the RBI got over this...
