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By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many years ago, a plainclothes police officer known as an “encounter specialist”, that uniquely Indian term that has…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
A year when the country celebrates the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary offers us a timely opportunity to consider his…
By Ajit Ranade |
The title of this column is actually a very fertile and active area of research in the economics and finance academic…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s vast, mostly unregulated and fast-growing shadow banking sector is in the midst of a crisis. This is a fire…
By Indira Hirway |
Looking at the present conditions in India, anybody would expect the budget to address the most critical problems of…
By Rupa Rege Nitsure |
The revenue arithmetic of the Budget is quite conservative. Factoring in the protracted slow-down phase and a shortfall…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
As per the empirical exercise set out in the Economic Survey of Government of India 2018-19, the Indian economy will…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This is not a big bang budget. Nor is it particularly bold though the government says it is walking towards the vision…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has focused on the water crisis facing the nation in his first Mann Ki Baat of the post-…
By Ganesh N Devy |
It was the remarkable foresight of the makers of the Indian Constitution that they thought of creating a dedicated…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Admiral Karambir Singh, who assumed command as Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) last month-end, has put out “elaborate…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Finance Minister will present her maiden Union Budget on July 5. She has asked all citizens to send their inputs,…
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…
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…