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By Jagdish Rattanani |
At the root of India's failing system is a health network that has become a money-spinning racket.  Anecdotal…
By Ajit Ranade |
The big news this week was on two key prices. One is the price of the almighty dollar, and the other is the price of…
By Ajit Ranade |
On August 31, it reported that India’s GDP growth rate for the April to June quarter was a solid 8.2 percent, well past…
By M A Kalam |
Hardly anyone is aware today that in Britain there existed a party called the British Union of Fascists (BUF) whose…
By Ghanshyam Shah |
Dominant peasant castes occupying significant space in the economy and polity in their respective States are not giving…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the medium to long term, the rupee will always depreciate against the dollar. The reason for this is that the rupee…
By Ajit Ranade |
The trust capital in India lags far behind the Scandinavian countries or even in East Asia. This trust deficit is the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The largest public sector bank and the largest private sector bank have announced losses for the first quarter (Q1) of…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The SIT constituted by the Karnataka government deserves praise for getting closer to cracking the conspiracy of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The policy repo rate, which (over time) drives the rate at which banks lend to customers, has moved up from 6 per cent…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
But what is not a trick and carries the potential of a powerful framing of issues for 2019 is the message of “love…
By Ajit Ranade |
The two reports serve to highlight macroeconomic concerns as we head into an election year. Consider some of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
A recent report from the globally renowned Brookings Institution shows a dramatic reduction of poverty in India. As of…
We are on the edge of a full-fledged trade war. The U.S. has raised tariffs, China is hitting back and businesses are…
The Rupee is falling. We are within striking range of Rs.70 to the US dollar. In intraday trade, the currency touched…