https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/introduce-the-cash-for-clunkers-policy-soon
Revive the economy with speedy judicial redressal and a scrapped vehicle policy
RN Bhaskar – 5 September, 2019
Last fortnight, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures that she thought would galvanise the economy. Among them was a roll-back...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-two-villages-harnessed-solar-pumps-to-create-incomes-for-farmers-conserve-groundwater-4381161.html
Harnessing solar pumps to create additional incomes for farmers
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 28, 2019
This is a story of a brilliant concept that NDDB came up with – along the state power distribution company (discom) – which has become a...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/bmc-should-learn-about-waste-management-from-ntpc-4380831.html
NTPC is doing things for waste management, which MCGM should have done
RN Bhaskar – 28 August, 2019
Earlier this month, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM, also known as BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) received only one bidder for...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-bureaucrats-got-conned-into-short-selling-indian-interests-to-new-zealands-milk-industry-4334911.html
How gullible bureaucrats and wily lobbyists misled India’s commerce ministry and almost short-sold India to the NZ milk industry
RN Bhaskar - 14 August, 2019
During July 2019, representatives of 15 countries met in Beijing for discussions on the mega Regional...
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/independence-special-2019/india-in-the-1980s-the-lull-that-shaped-the-storm/54779/1
How the 1980s changed India almost entirely
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 12, 2019
(the pdf version can be obtained from 2019-07_Forbes-India-The-1980s)
Few people realise how dramatically the 1980s transformed India. It was accidental, true. But the change was cataclysmic with tremors shaking...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/desalination-it-is-a-big-money-game-baby-4288511.html/amp
Water series #12 -- Other articles in this series are given below
Desalination is too expensive, and too ruinous for India
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 05, 2019
How big is desalination in India? That is hard to tell because one is confronted...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/desalination-niti-aayog-shouldnt-push-a-solution-that-is-irrelevant-expensive-and-polluting-4264111.html
Why is Niti Aayog promoting desalination which is irrelevant, expensive and polluting?
Water Series #11 --(Other articles in this series are given below)
RN Bhaskar – Juy 30, 2019
This article is aimed at providing a perspective that is different from the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/new-consul-general-of-japan-in-mumbai-michio-harada-india-japan-relations-have-strengthened-expanded-to-a-new-level
By Jescilia Karayamparambil and RN Bhaskar -- July 29, 2019,
Japanese business establishments in India stands at 5,102 (once again a 5 per cent growth). But Harada would also like to focus on strengthening people-to-people connect further with various activities....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/uk-continues-to-make-money-from-india
The UK Visa office and its money-making ways
RN Bhaskar -- July 25, 2019
Commerce and the UK were never strangers. Napoleon called this country a nation of shopkeepers. Even during colonisation, the British first came in as a trading company,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-petty-graft-could-sabotage-water-and-waste-management-and-even-the-pms-biggest-schemes-4236081.html
Water #10
(Other articles in this series are given below)
Water and waste management are crucial to the the PM’s biggest schemes, but they are being sabotaged
RN Bhaskar -- July 23, 2019
There are three schemes of Prime minister Narendra Modi which...
