http://www.firstpost.com/business/shift-to-cashless-are-mumbai-municipalitys-finance-it-depts-hoodwinking-citizens-3411040.html
Are MCGM’s finance and IT departments hoodwinking the corporation and citizens?
RN BhaskarApr, 28 2017 15:27:45 IST
The government of India is rooting for digitisation and financial transparency. Both are laudable objectives. Almost every government department has been exhorted to enable...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/sukma-maoist-attack-malaise-of-naxal-violence-lies-deep-in-illegal-mining-and-political-funding-3408728.html
Sukma killing, illegal mining, naxal violence and political funding
RN BhaskarApr, 27 2017 16:53:00 IST
On 24 April, Maoist terrorists killed 25 CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) men in the latest atrocity in Sukma district in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh....
http://www.firstpost.com/business/petrol-pumps-to-remain-shut-on-sundays-fuel-conscious-or-merely-money-conscious-3394038.html
RN Bhaskar Apr, 20 2017 10:55:48 IST
Petrol pumps take a holiday - why?
Last week, petrol pumps in India announced that they would shut shops every Sunday. The move was unprecedented.
Unlike most other establishments which have always enjoyed a day...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/sberbank-in-india-from-russia-with-love/1051218
SBERBANK: Russia's biggest bank consolidates its position in India
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 12:33 pm
Established in 1841, and having evolved into one of the most modern and formidable banks in the world today, SBERBANK boasts of 16,342 branches...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/rn-bhaskar-india-russia-friends-for-70-years/1051178
India-Russia: Friends for 70 Years
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 12:05 pm
Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov arriving in New Delhi 1947 to establish formal diplomatic relations with India
It was in Goa, India, that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/rn-bhaskar-india-russia-friends-for-70-years/1051178
India-Russia ties have strengthened over time
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 12:05 pm
It was in Goa, India, that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi adopted a joint statement ‘partnership for global peace and stability’...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-great-indian-irony-farmers-starve-while-politicians-agriculture-income-continue-to-rise-3360212.html
Loan waivers, farmer suicides, private wealth and public starvation
RN BhaskarMar, 30 2017 16:56:33 IST
There is something horrible, almost Kafka-esque, that is taking place in Maharashtra.
Politicians across the spectrum have been demanding loan waivers. When a banker cautions against erosion...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/jobs-at-risk-is-india-prepared-for-huge-unemployment-or-is-it-blissfully-sleeping-3353496.html
Is your job at risk?
RN BhaskarMar, 27 2017 08:32:18 IST
There’s a buzz about robotics everywhere. People are already talking about – and experimenting with – driverless cars. Then there is further talk about robotics – about how they could...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/ups-job-woes-cm-yogi-adityanaths-slaughterhouse-ban-could-see-painfull-days-ahead-3347442.html
UP's Yogi Adityanath could transform Uttar Pradesh – but not the way to prosperity
By RN Bhaskar
Yogi Adityanath, the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh -- India’s most populous state, inherits a legacy that could drive the state into greater...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/why-economic-survey-2017-doesnt-have-data-tables-omission-or-oversight-3306734.html
Economic Survey 2017 - where are the missing statistical appendices?
By R.N.Bhaskar; 9 March 2013
The Modi government came to power on a chariot driven by three horses. The first heralded a promise of less government more governance. The second assured...