The annual Union Budget will be presented in less than two weeks. It is a constitutional requirement, since not even a single rupee can b...Read More
Disease, death, economic destruction and yet resilience, fortitude and determination is how most people experienced the last year. Most o...Read More
Macroeconomic winds are blowing favourably as we enter the New Year. Stock markets are at an all-time high. Share price indices are up ne...Read More
On the one hand, the RBI says it will pursue its accommodative policy as long as is necessary, to revive economic growth. So, money suppl...Read More
The recent case of the BSNL is illustrative. Forced to break away from a confirmed tender to Chinese suppliers for its 4G network, it fou...Read More
India is seen as a countervailing force to China. ...The feasibility of higher imports from the US depends on stronger domestic growth in...Read More
The apex court has asked parties and candidates to widely publicise criminal histories in local and national newspapers, as well as on s...Read More
It is the interest earnings of banks which allows them to repay their depositors with interest on savings and fixed deposits. If those in...Read More
Forty years ago, possibly for the first time, there was mass mobilisation and a farmers' agitation led by a most unlikely and uncharismat...Read More
The larger issue is what is to be done about banking health in times of the pandemic. The RBI-constituted K V Kamath Committee has submit...Read More
The Centre simply cannot renege on a written and codified promise, act of God or not. We are all in this pandemic together. We are trying...Read More
In the run-up to the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, The Guardian newspaper published a story of how the Obama re-elect...Read More
Rising bad loans, and in turn non-performing assets (NPA) cases, can be kept in check by a strict Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
Now, households spend more on food and less on eating out, clothes, recreation or travel. This new proportion must reflect in the COVID c...Read More
It is not clear what the Chinese stand to gain by their expansionism. In a world facing a recession, and slowing international trade why ...Read More
India's forex reserves have crossed half a trillion dollars, a historic milestone achieved by the pandemic-caused global recession and de...Read More
Unconventional times call for unconventional solutions and experiments.
The method to "flatten the curve" was to isolate people in their own homes, observe social distancing, restrict movement. It was as if co...Read More
122 million jobs were lost in the month of April in India. Add to it the loss of hospitality and airline jobs, rise in automation, cautio...Read More
As 63 million small and medium enterprises look to the government for support in these harrowing times, what prevents the policymakers fr...Read More