When the house is on fire and the situation looks hopeless, any maverick action can be sold as good. That is one way to look at the report of an internal working group…
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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
On November 20, 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) constituted to “review extant ownership guidelines and corporate structure of Indian private sector banks” under…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo and reverse rates unchanged at 4% and 3.35% respectively in its bi-monthly meeting held on 2-4 December, 2020…
By Arun Maira |
The boundaries between manufacturing and services, and even agriculture, are becoming fuzzier. Manufacturing enterprises have become ‘deconstructed’ by technology and…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant was located in Sriperumbudur in India as part of a special economic zone…
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Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now the Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB). To think that the LVB episode is an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is little doubt among many reasonably well-informed people that there is an ugly mix of the vaudeville and the vicious in the material aired by Republic TV. There…
For nearly four days America, nay the world, held its breath waiting for the November 3 US presidential election results to become public. The nerve-wrecking suspense…
By Ajit Ranade |
Kamala Harris will become the first ever Vice President of America to have Indian ancestry. Senator Harris’s mother Shyamala Gopalan arrived in the United States at the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This looks like a nail-biting finish, with all the marks of suspense, swings, threats, bullies, claims and counterclaims.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world’s most-watched election is today, Nov.03, with Joe Biden in the lead but pollsters still unsure if he will make it to the White House. The prospects of a…
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Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis (TB) bacteria nearly 140 years ago, making this one of the earliest diseases to have its causative agent identified by man.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it has titled: “Covid-19 and its spatial dimension in India”. The 89-…
A lot of economic frenzy that drives GDP has gone away, forced shut by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This means the way we live has changed in ways that we need to examine…
For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their particular schools or colleges, this is a difficult time. Opening up has…