IBC: Escape Route for Big Corporate ?

The then Finance Minister late Mr. Arun Jaitley & the present Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman used to say that IBC will prove to be a game changer. Indians are scared of stigma &...

Read more June 18, 2021 at 11:14 am Devidas Tuljapurkar

Reserve Bank of India or the Richmen Bank of India?

RBI has been losing credibility since demonetisation. Its subsequent efforts like not intervening when Bank charges were increased, proposing banking licences to corporates which RBI all along opposed on well found principles, allowing more...

Read more June 18, 2021 at 10:21 am Thomas Franco

Indian Economy in Shambles-What is to be done?

RBI has downgraded India’s growth projection to 9.5% from 10.5%. World Bank projects it at 8.3%. Actually, it may be worse. This is at the backdrop of GDP growth of a negative 7.3%. Last year,...

Read more June 10, 2021 at 12:43 pm Thomas Franco

Financing Ecosystem Restoration with Nature Based Solutions

It’s 5 decades since the UN General Assembly designated June 5th as World Environment Day, marking the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. And the first World Environment...

Read more June 5, 2021 at 7:41 am Bhargavi S. Rao

Holding Ground

Oinam Rajen appears to have suddenly grown old in the past one year. Sitting in his wooden canoe, his eyes wander over the vast expanse of Loktak lake that surrounds his village, in search...

Read more June 3, 2021 at 12:09 pm Donald Takhell

GDP Growth and Mirage of V-shaped Recovery

If GDP growth rate is an indication of where our formal economy is, then there’s a lot to worry about. It fell to -7.3% in FY21, from the low of 4.2% in FY20. Unless...

Read more June 2, 2021 at 7:30 pm Joe Athialy

Did Nationalisation Achieve its Objectives?

Bank Nationalisation and the associated public policies on banking and financial sector development were predicated on the strong assumption of the need for promoting financial intermediation by building institutions, expanding their geographical spread, mobilising...

Read more June 2, 2021 at 12:32 pm Thomas Franco

How Modi Govt’s Policy Change Made Air Travel Expensive in India

In the year 2017, the Government of India changed the way airport tariffs are calculated in India. Airport tariffs are fees that passengers and airlines pay the airport for using its services, which include...

Read more May 31, 2021 at 12:06 pm Nihar Gokhale

Despite Pandemic, PE Investments in Real Estate Increase by 19%

The companies from the infrastructure sector are likely to report decent earnings for the quarter ended March 2021 driven by a sharp recovery in the pace of execution and improved efficiency. The brokerage house...

Read more May 25, 2021 at 12:11 pm Shivani Dwivedi

Why was the Nationalisation of Banks Necessary?

The Socio-political environment of the second half of 1960s reflected a sense of disenchantment in the growing inequalities spawned by the development process–a sense which was highlighted by a series of studies such as...

Read more May 25, 2021 at 11:33 am Thomas Franco

History Shows that Public Sector Banks are Needed

When India attained Independence in 1947 it inherited a weak, desperate and unwieldy banking structure. Other than the Imperial Bank of India, there were many Indian joint stock banks, but they did not have...

Read more May 17, 2021 at 4:49 pm Thomas Franco

COVID-19: Why we must reorganise cities to deal with the third wave

As ambulances siren through streets and social media is filled with desperate pleas for beds, ICUs, oxygen and Remdesivir, phones keep ringing with news of relatives, friends and contacts falling sick and many losing...

Read more May 14, 2021 at 3:42 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

कोविड के पहले और बाद में बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन

पलायन वास्तव में घातक नहीं है, पर इसे घातक बना दिया गया है। आप कल्पना करके देखिए कि मानव सभ्यता में से पलायन को हटा दिया जाए, फिर इसके बाद की दुनिया के बारे...

Read more May 13, 2021 at 3:47 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

कोविड महामारी और बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन

लेख के शीर्षक में प्रयोग किए गए दो शब्द कोविड और बुन्देलखण्ड जैसे ही हमारे कानों को सुनाई देते हैं। वैसे ही हमारे कान चौकन्ने हो जाते हैं। दोनों शब्दों के सुनते ही मन-चिन्तन...

Read more May 11, 2021 at 3:43 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

How was Banking in the Private Sector?

There were no public sector banks till 1955. Only on 1st July 1955 Imperial Bank of India was nationalised creating State Bank of India. It is important to know what was banking in our...

Read more May 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm Thomas Franco

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