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By Thomas Isaac |
In India, the Union Finance Commissions appointed under Article 280 of the Constitution after every five years is the…
By Chetan Dalal |
The nation can afford nothing less than a full-fledged and transparent account of the letters so issued, the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The RBI Governor, Urjit Patel, speaks of the “anger, hurt and pain at the frauds and irregularities”. For once, he puts…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
No amount of effort will yield results when the mind is beset with all the wrong notions and ideas, aired freely and…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The huge crowd of Indians at the Sultan Qaboos Stadium or at Dubai Opera House would have liked the Indian PM to detail…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The question that must be asked is this: Is our money safe in banks? How and why should Indians believe in anything…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Clearly, in the hierarchy of preference of MPC, the need to support growth and investment ranked higher than the…
By Usha Thorat |
The real challenge for debt management will be to ensure that yields are not pushed up unduly, as this would have an…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI at its last sitting for the current financial year and the first meeting…
By R Gopalakrishnan |
The Prime Minister now faces a Modi moment. India needs leadership to reach out and honestly attempt a rainbow effect…
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
The good news in this is that the synchronised global recovery and the lag in the conservative monetary policy response…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
If 2017-18 is any guide, there are serious question marks on reaching the budgeted fiscal numbers for 2018-19. This has…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Its rural and social sector proposals, the most attention-catching and hotly-debated of which is the Rs. 5 lakhs a year…
By Indira Hirway |
There is no doubt that the budget has come out with several new ideas. However, there are a few questions that need…
By Usha Thorat |
We are in for difficult times. Tackling the real sector by determined action to complete the implementation of stalled…