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By Jagdish Rattanani |
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks it can get away with anything. The game works for a while. The swell of
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in Parliament, will ensure that the quality-of-life…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the end of its three-day meeting on February 8 – its last for the current fiscal – the MPC of the RBI resolved to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The total loss of wealth in market capitalisation was a…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the medium-term growth outlook despite persistent global recessionary winds
By Ajit Ranade |
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the general elections of 2024. There was an expectation that it would be a…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards but it was not short on praise for the economy, particularly for the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be presented to Parliament on Wednesday, comes amid some…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy GDP growth and turnaround in its finances in the post pandemic period…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget will be presented against the backdrop of weak private investment…
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition from private hospitals and doctors, a group that…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the first day of the Davos summit in Switzerland this year, Oxfam International published a report titled “Survival of the Richest”. The timing of the publication is…
By Vappala Balachandran |
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and deglamourise the subject for the public. Like any other branch of governance,…
By Ajit Ranade |
India has had a tradition of conducting a national census, every ten years, for more than a century.