Railway Budget 2016: Passenger focus well-intentioned but lacks direction
By Rakesh Chopra Number cruncher, CA, auditor minister are some of the tags given to railways minister Suresh Prabhu. Rail Budget 2016-17 reinforces the belief already created that Prabhu is good at...
View ArticleBudget: It may be the king’s speech, but it only taxes everyone
Anuvab Pal Let’s face it. The Budget is a lot of things but it isn’t exciting television. It isn’t 11 washed-up celebrities locked in a house trying to deceive each other. It isn’t a news...
View ArticleBudget 2016: Why an anti-rich Budget wouldn’t be a pro-poor one
By Nirmal Jain, Chairman, IIFL Group There are murmurs in the market that the Budget stance will be pro-poor and antirich. A few such provisions being talked about are dilution of long-term capital...
View ArticleBudget 2016: The world can be India’s oyster
By Mark Weinberger For the global economy, 2016 seems destined to be another year of volatility and uncertainty. But for India, the stakes are especially high. India’s key challenge is the same one...
View ArticleTimeless and Infinite
By Deepam Chetterjee Young people engaged in selfexploration are looking for inner peace. They question the relevance of rituals and religious practices. Religion needs to be reinterpreted to suit the...
View ArticleEco Survey 2016: Warns of growth trajectory
By Rajiv Kumar, Senior Fellow, Centre For Policy Research Equity markets greeted the Economic Survey 2015-16 with a modest bounce presumably because, “At a time of the newest normal for the world...
View ArticleEco Survey 2016: Economic context a challenge
By Atsi Sheth, Associate MD, SOvereign Risk Group, Moody’s Investors Service In a global environment characterised by low commodity prices and a gloomy trade outlook, it would be logical to presume...
View ArticleEco Survey 2016: Plug infrastructure, skilled force gaps and provide...
By YM Deosthalee, Chairman, L&T Finance Holdings The Economic Survey speaks of India as the fastest growing major economy in the world. The estimated growth of 7-7.75 per cent for FY17 projected by...
View ArticleEco Survey 2016: Let’s put agriculture back on track
By Ashok Gulati, Infosys Chair Professor For Agriculture, ICRIER The Economic Survey of 2015-16 puts an optimist agri-GDP growth of 1.1 per cent for this year, on top of last year’s minus (-) 0.2 per...
View ArticleDemographic dividend: Skilling them more than softly
By Deepak Kapoor With the Union Budget to be delivered on Monday, Indian policymakers and corporates are banking on a few advantages India enjoys that include demographic dividend. But is the...
View ArticleThe right balance
By P D Shastri The Bhagwad Gita emphasises the importance of serenity even in the thick of action. Krishna discusses the characteristics of the stithaprajna, the person of stable temper, the epitome of...
View ArticleOil price dynamics
By Ashley Kindergan Over the last 18 months, the price of a barrel of Brent crude has dropped from $115 to $35. And the effects of that steep decline have rippled far and wide: spreads...
View ArticleAsia Cup: Hire an exclamation mark, it’s an India-Pakistan Match
By Indrajit Hazra India-Pakistan cricket matches, whenever they do take place, are as exciting these days as England-Germany football matches — in other words, they are the nostalgia-hunter’s dry...
View ArticleIndia-Pakistan match: More than a game
By Boria Majumdar India-Pakistan cricketing confrontations are also a barometer of political relations between the two neighbours. The first series between the two in 1952 saw droves of Pakistani fans...
View ArticleIndia Stack to bridge the digital divide in our country
By Kabir Kumar & Sanjay Jain India’s digital startups have an analog problem. They face a kagaz ka pahad. Literally. Many of them are designing for the digital desh of Bunty, the 37-yearold Udaipur...
View ArticleNPA cleaning: RBI need to urgently coordinate policy to avoid a downward spiral
By Sanjeev Sanyal In the last few weeks, the RBI finally forced the banking sector to recognise the piles of nonperforming assets (NPAs) on its balance-sheets — an important first step towards cleaning...
View ArticleBudget 2016: An opportunity to drive the economy to a sustainable growth path
By Harshavardhan Neotia Last year’s Budget was pro-growth and inclusive, and laid out an enabling roadmap for India’s long-term development. Today’s Union Budget presents a good opportunity to further...
View ArticleA well-developed vision opens us up to new possibilities
A vision is future-oriented. That probably sounds quite self-evident. Yet, there is quite a bit more to this obvious observation. Since it is about the future, which is intrinsically uncertain, it is...
View ArticleFM Arun Jaitley doesn’t need no economics
By Ashok V Desai Economists think that they own the Budget. To go back to the foundation of democracy, representatives of the people, insisted that their king could not tax them without their consent....
View ArticleBudget 2016: FM Arun Jaitley said no to temptation
By Ashok Wadhwa Before Monday, there was much debate around the type of Budget Arun Jaitley would present. Globally, growth has tapered down on the back of contracting demand. Financial markets have...
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