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By Arun Maira |
75 years after its Independence, India is shining at the top—the rich at the top have done very well post…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It is only but very rarely that a central bank announces emergency liquidity and other measures whose ‘immediate…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions on the optimism of…
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The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the same time improve…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But barely below the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept unchanged the policy…
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This column highlights the case of a lesser-known Himalayan region, the area around the hill station of Mukteshwar, and…
By Arun Maira |
Governments sometimes bury their heads in the sand, like ostriches, to avoid uncomfortable realities. The pandemic…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on February 05, 2021 came against the back drop of a perceived…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In India, it is customary for the RBI to lend support to the Central Government’s fiscal stance and other major…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The finance minister, by swiftly replacing with a tablet, the red-coloured cloth bag containing budget documents that…
By Usha Thorat |
Governor Reddy famously once said that you cannot find a financial sector solution for every real sector problem. But…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Economic Survey 2020-21 offers the spirit of generous optimism on the growth front but this comes coupled with an…
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Bank Fixed Deposits (FDs) are the only investment product people don’t think twice about before investing. They are…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das is on record as having said that a wider inflation target band will be meaningless as it…