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By Arun Maira |
The chapter on smart cities says, “Smart cities is an approach to urban development characterised by area-based…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Fund managers and shareholders work with a different agenda governed more by higher profits and rising stock prices in…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The penultimate monetary policy for fiscal 2018-19 has maintained status quo on the policy repo rate at 6.5 per cent…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The fifth bi-monthly meeting of the MPC of the RBI in the current fiscal was billed to be a non-event since just about…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The crucial Nov.19 board meeting of the RBI, which threatened at one point to be an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation,…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Over the last few years, there have been demands for the use of the RBI’s internal reserves for fiscal purposes, like…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
It is barely two years since Urjit Patel took charge as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Viral Acharya, the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the heart of the rift is an uneasiness and some alarm in the bureaucratic and the political circles that PCA will…
By Arun Maira |
Some economists are vigorously churning out statistics to prove that the Indian economy is generating enough jobs. Some…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC of the RBI caught almost everyone by surprise by keeping the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent in its…
By Usha Thorat |
The change in stance from neutral to “calibrated tightening” also puts to rest any speculation about cut in rates and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting this week comes under the shadow of the massive IL&FS default that has…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The recent measures announced by the authorities may provide some short term relief but the sustainable solution to the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
One obvious casualty of widespread restructuring was the supervision of banks. The examiners of banks never had a clear…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In analysing the situation, it is important to note that episodes of volatility are not a new phenomenon in India and…