(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr…
Columns, et al
Columns by date
(Over most of April and May, as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in India, growing from just a handful of cases to take region after region in its grasp, Dr…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The boundary conditions given to the Monetary Policy Committee under the inflation targeting framework stand violated as the calendar year draws to a close.
By Ajit Ranade |
The first quarter contraction was explained mostly by the severe lockdown ordered by the Central government, to tackle the spread of the pandemic. The second quarter…
By |
After the State of Hyderabad was forced to merge with India on September 17, 1948, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru also restructured the dominions of the Nizam. In a…
By |
Dec. 03 marked the International Day for Persons with Disabilities. We see a host of coverage on issues that are otherwise not brought to our notice, or concerns we don’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
When the house is on fire and the situation looks hopeless, any maverick action can be sold as good. That is one way to look at the report of an internal working group…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
On November 20, 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) constituted to “review extant ownership guidelines and corporate structure of Indian private sector banks” under…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo and reverse rates unchanged at 4% and 3.35% respectively in its bi-monthly meeting held on 2-4 December, 2020…
By Arun Maira |
The boundaries between manufacturing and services, and even agriculture, are becoming fuzzier. Manufacturing enterprises have become ‘deconstructed’ by technology and…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant was located in Sriperumbudur in India as part of a special economic zone…
By |
Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now the Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB). To think that the LVB episode is an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is little doubt among many reasonably well-informed people that there is an ugly mix of the vaudeville and the vicious in the material aired by Republic TV. There…
For nearly four days America, nay the world, held its breath waiting for the November 3 US presidential election results to become public. The nerve-wrecking suspense…