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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept unchanged the policy…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…
By Ajit Ranade |
There seems to be a sudden epidemic of sorts, to legislate jobs for locals, in various States of India. Most recently…
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Assam’s tea industry is mostly confined to the tea supply chain's unremunerative plantation activities.
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India is one of the worst affected countries in terms of the number of detected COVID-19 cases and suspected undetected…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third-quarter data on India's GDP showed that it has come out of the recession. The data shows a substantial…
By Arun Maira |
Governments sometimes bury their heads in the sand, like ostriches, to avoid uncomfortable realities. The pandemic…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on February 05, 2021 came against the back drop of a perceived…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In India, it is customary for the RBI to lend support to the Central Government’s fiscal stance and other major…
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The Finance Minister has ticked all the boxes except splurging direct cash and tax reductions. The direct cash…
By Indira Hirway |
A majority of Indians suffered in multiple ways during the last year. The crisis that started before Covid came to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2021- 22 was presented against the backdrop of a complete collapse of realisation of revenue…
By Ajit Ranade |
The government cannot spend even a rupee without the consent of parliament. hence its annual spending plan, called the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The finance minister, by swiftly replacing with a tablet, the red-coloured cloth bag containing budget documents that…
By Usha Thorat |
Governor Reddy famously once said that you cannot find a financial sector solution for every real sector problem. But…