The Finance Minister will present her maiden Union Budget on July 5. She has asked all citizens to send their inputs, promising that each proposal will be duly examined…
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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI, in a somewhat rare show of unanimity cut the policy repo rate from 6% to 5.75% - third cut in a row- and…
By Usha Thorat |
The 25 bps rate cut and the change in policy stance from ‘neutral’ to ‘accommodative’ has been welcomed by the markets and is consistent with the growth projections and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Elections of course are far more complex...but one thing may be said – the pundits, often sitting at the upper end of the economic pyramid, are more likely to read it…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
We will need a series of actions that fix structural issues and can drive change in the medium and longer term. There is in the end no quick fix to the given situation.…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The huge downside of this experience for doctors at the start of their career will certainly mark them for life. This will possibly shape them, even scar them, and many…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It will be sometime before the depth of Narendra Modi’s electoral sweep sinks in and a much longer time before the phenomenon is better understood. The Prime Minister…
The new NDA government will take charge in the last week of May 2019. The immediate task before the government is to prepare and present the Union budget.
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
There is an old saying in Sanskrit. यथा राजा तथा प्रजा - as the King so are the people.
By Ajit Ranade |
After the exit polls on May 19 predicted a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance, the stock market in Mumbai gave a euphoric salute, and the index broke…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economic growth for the past three years has declined from 8.2 to 7.2 to 7.0 percent. The latest quarterly growth rate is 6.6 percent, and the January to March…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Clawbacks are not uncommon in the US and can be particularly gratifying for shareholders and many groups of stakeholders, particularly when the money being taken back is…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer the so-called national parties and pre-set…
By Aseem Shrivastava , Aryaman Jain |
The rise of Hindutva in a country that was thought to be largely secular has flummoxed many. Whatever the outcome of this general election, the BJP and its parent, the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Even for those who might have held Rajiv Gandhi culpable in the mass of allegations around the Bofors gun, his death brought that conversation to an end. That is the Ind