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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
A narrow direct-tax base, a retrograde direct-indirect tax structure, widespread tax evasion, complex tax rules, an…
By Ajit Ranade |
The comparison with Pokhran can only be stretched so far. Unlike the Pokhran test, demonetisation has affected each and…
The problems of weak balance sheet and weak capital base are the result of inefficiency and mismanagement of the PSU…
By Ajit Ranade |
The others, including foreign shareholders too must put in funds. At what price will they be given this chance? Did…
The RBI has been unable to exert itself on a crucial parameter, even when that crucial parameter impacts the way the…
By Martin Macwan |
The cases of recent violent caste-related attacks on dalit youth for sporting moustaches in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar…
By Ajit Ranade |
Can we focus on eliminating the loophole of tax shelters in direct taxes? Can we reduce the burden of indirect taxes,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The ill-effects of a host of rash moves like the rushed implementation of GST, the hare-brained scheme of…
In the above context, what matters is not really the reduction in the policy rate, which is a signal to the banking…
By Usha Thorat |
As inflation had increased by two percentage points since the last policy -although below the target of four per cent –…
By Arun Maira |
India’s history is a composition of many histories. Any attempt to impose a single vision of India’s history is a fool’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
While it is gratifying to see an obnoxious media person being caught out and go down, there is the larger and more…
By T C A Raghavan |
The Trump broadside has left many in Pakistan shaken but such pressures are intrinsically not new. It is evident that…
The fact that India stands out as a country with one of the highest increases in the top one per cent income share…