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By Jagdish Rattanani |
When the house is on fire and the situation looks hopeless, any maverick action can be sold as good. That is one way to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
On November 20, 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) constituted to “review extant ownership guidelines and corporate…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo and reverse rates unchanged at 4% and 3.35% respectively in…
By Arun Maira |
The boundaries between manufacturing and services, and even agriculture, are becoming fuzzier. Manufacturing…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant was located in…
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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…
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-…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing…
By Ajit Ranade |
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract,…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of…
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Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…
By Arun Maira |
Two Indian initiatives have found places amongst the ten best global initiatives selected by the Rockefeller Foundation…