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By Ajit Ranade |
The year began with great optimism about economic growth. The previous year i.e. 2017 had concluded with actual growth…
By Ajit Ranade |
Just when lakhs of farmers marched to the nation’s capital demanding relief for their distress, another smaller set had…
By Y.V. Reddy |
The Balance of Payments crisis in 1991 prompted economic reforms in India. The reforms included fiscal stabilisation,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
After every election, one of the commonest remarks of the teams and the leaders that lose is that they would introspect…
By Ajit Ranade |
This December 12 is the third death anniversary of Sharad Joshi, founder of the Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This column appears on the morning a lot of us will be glued to our television screens, watching the results of…
By M A Kalam |
If the American national, John Allen Chau, has been killed in the North Sentinel island, in the Andaman and Nicobar…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI Governor Urjit Patel has reiterated before a Parliamentary panel the central bank’s well-known position that…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The penultimate monetary policy for fiscal 2018-19 has maintained status quo on the policy repo rate at 6.5 per cent…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The fifth bi-monthly meeting of the MPC of the RBI in the current fiscal was billed to be a non-event since just about…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In his own strident way, never giving an inch and always straining to milk dry the argument for his side, Finance…
By Ajit Ranade |
The inflation reported for the month of October was 3.1 per cent, the lowest in the last one year. This was a big…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
When UPA-II under Dr. Singh lost to Narendra Modi’s BJP, Dr. Singh lost only his job but it was the Congress that lost…
The crucial Nov.19 board meeting of the RBI, which threatened at one point to be an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation,…
By Ajit Ranade |
The institutional autonomy and independence of the RBI is very important for its credibility and reputation. The latter…