The minutes of the monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting earlier this month released by RBI on June 22 indicate that price stability has been prioritised over growth.…
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By Ajit Ranade |
June 27 is international MSME day declared by the United Nations via a resolution passed in the General Assembly in 2017. Every year on this day, there are events…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Manipur crisis, complex as it is, has a cause, a trigger, and a history. In theory, it can be explained in the light of events in the immediate. Put simplistically,…
By Ajit Ranade |
June marks the three hundredth birth anniversary of Adam Smith, the Scottish phi-losopher considered to be the father of modern economic thinking. His most famous book…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The resolution of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) released on June 8 kept the policy repo rate (PRR) unchanged and resolved to continue with the withdrawal of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As India emerges from the shock and horror of the triple train crash at Balasore in Orissa on June 02, and as investigations pick up into the cause or causes of the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The regained confidence now apparent in the deeds and words of the RBI owes it all to the flexible inflation targeting framework for monetary policy setting. This…
By Ajit Ranade |
During the recent Karnataka elections, one divisive issue was about the milk brand Amul from Gujarat versus local brand Nandini. How did this become an electoral issue?…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Well planned and thought through policy that does not get into the trap of event creation or headline grabbing also carries the benefit of multiple pros and cons being…
By Martin Macwan |
Manipur has been in a state of conflict for quite some time. It is not surprising that the situation often escalates into violence in this North Eastern Indian State…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Congress Party’s victory in the elections to the State Assembly of Karnataka is the highest it has been in the past thirty-four years. It is a decisive and sweeping…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Without delving into what the Karnataka elections hold and which way the wind will blow, it can be safely said that this is an election that has significance well beyond…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
As F.Y. 2022-23 ended, the RBI issued a press release which said that “in consultation with the (Central) Government, the limit for WMA for the first half of the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month a film released in theatres here recounting an immigrant Indian mother’s struggle to win back the custody of her children from the Norwegian foster care system
By Ajit Ranade |
The Chief of Kotak Bank, Uday Kotak has called the U.S. dollar the biggest financial terrorist. Such a comment from one of Asia’s pre-eminent and very successful bankers…