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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The dividend pay-out of Rs. 1,75,987 crore from the RBI to the government for 2018-19 follows a paradigm shift in the…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The yawning gap between the mischievous claims and verified data is exactly as it was in the case of ‘black’ money…
By Devidas Tuljapurkar |
Over the last several years, Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have been struggling hard to come to grips with mounting Non-…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
This is going to be a merger like none other. We had 27 public sector banks (PSBs) in 2017. We have seen two mergers…
By Ajit Ranade |
If many car factories find themselves running idle, or with surplus inventory it could be because there was over-…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the changes to article 370 of the Constitution of India were meant “to bring J&K truly into India's fold”,…
By Arun Maira |
The numbers are in and uncontested this time. The growth of the Indian economy, until recently celebrated as the world’…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There has been an animated debate since August 26, 2019 on the decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to transfer…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is now over 20 days and the average citizen of the nation’s most sensitive border State, Jammu & Kashmir,…
By Ajit Ranade |
India is possibly the only country in the world which mandates that a profit-making company spend two percent of its…
By Arun Maira |
India wants to grow its economy to US$ 5 trillion. People want jobs and their incomes to grow. India needs its…
By Vappala Balachandran |
Some Indian observers have said that US President Donald Trump’s July 22 offer to mediate on Kashmir has no validity…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The MPC has many reasons for which it has offered a rate cut. First, observed inflation and inflation outlook measured…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
That the Monetary Policy Committee will reduce the policy rate for a fourth time in a row was in no doubt. Most…
By Vappala Balachandran |
US President Donald Trump’s remarks on June 22 during Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the White House…