Researchers and writers are expected to analyse schemes critically. They should look at the positives and negatives. Once upon a time, SBI’s Economic Research Wing used to do this. Often, it used to be...
Nobody anticipated a massive victory with 85% seats for the ruling alliance, which faced 20 years of anti-incumbency, anger due to unemployment, massive poverty, low income levels, the highest out-migration, and low-quality education. “The...
The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and newspapers say that the government is considering the appointment of Managing Directors in...
In the recently published book (In) Complete Justice? The Supreme Court at 75, Critical reflections edited by Justice S. Muralidhar, former Chief Justice, Odisha, Dr. Usha Ramanathan, in her article, has quoted many cases...
As per reports in Business Standard, “Call for paring Govt stake in Public Sector Banks, diluting the Government’s stake in them and leaving their regulations to the RBI were among the key new ideas...
Newspapers are full of advertisements praising the Prime Minister for the so-called Diwali gift. Few analysts have come out with the real report card of GST. Convener of Association of Indian Entrepreneurs Mr. K...
The National Public Hearing on Rising Indebtedness of Women and MFI Loot, convened by the All India Democratic Women’s Association, on 23-24 August 2025 at New Delhi highlighted the failure of the Government of...
More than 500 delegates and observers of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, the largest women’s organisation in the country with more than 10 million members, held the Government of India, Reserve Bank of...
The Statement of the Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has declared that the BULA Bill fails to rein in predatory lending activities.The summary of the statements is given below: The Department...
History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In India, the concept of lending has been recorded during the Mauryan age, i.e., 321–185 BCE. Kautilya’s...
The first issue of Finance Matters was released on 1st July 2017 and had articles titled: Appointment of a new Indian ED at the World Bank raises a few questions The Draconian FRDI Bill,...
Anil Ambani’s loan has been reported as fraud for the second time by SBI:It’s reported by BusinessLine as: State Bank of India has decided to report the loan account of Reliance Communications Ltd (RCOM)...
For many days Facebook is showing apparently an appeal by Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman appealing to every Indian to invest Rs 21,000 immediately as only 1000 can apply now as 80% has been subscribed in...
Our country has the biggest public service through Post Offices in every nook and corner of the country. Started in 1776 with the idea mooted by Warren Hastings, Lord Clive started post offices which...
After nationalisation of 14 banks in 1969 and 6 more in 1980, access to credit became possible for small borrowers. But everything changed after 1991 and worsened after 2014. Please refer to tables from...
