It is not uncommon to hear in banking circles that non-performing assets, or NPAs, are a part of the business of banking. Some loans will go bad, and that is just…
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By Lekha Rattanani |
The horror video from Manipur showing two women being paraded naked has shocked the national conscience. Suddenly, everyone is speaking up. The accused have been arrested
By Ajit Ranade |
One sixth of humanity is in India, which is the most populous country on this planet. Seven of the eight billion people who live in the world today, were born just in…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
For the financial year 2022-23, the RBI paid a dividend of Rs. 87,420 crore to the government vis-a-vis Rs. 30,311 crore for the previous year, which was a six-year low.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Gandhian thought, institutions and the Mahatma himself are under unprecedented attack today. From positions of power in the government to poisoned minds among activists a
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China has been watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week. There are many stakes for China in the emerging US-India strategic partnershi
By Rashmi Sawhney |
Artists, writers and intellectuals have historically been the vanguard for mobilising social change and bringing down tyrannical States. More intellectuals have been put…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
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.…
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?…