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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/crisis-alone-can-make-water-policies-change-4122021.html Water series 5 – Will water policies in India change? (Other articles in this series are listed below) RN Bhaskar-- 21 June 2019 Big crises confront India today.  Financially, there are big problems ahead (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/new-government-will-inherit-unpaid-infrastructure-bill-of-rs-12-4-lakh-crore-3937001.html).  There is tremendous anxiety on the job...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-to-drink-4082681.html Water series #4: abundance and penury in India RN Bhaskar -- 11 June 2019 (Other articles in this series are listed below) The title lines, taken from Samuel Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could sum up India’s pathetic condition...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget-2019-from-power-to-powerlessness-risks-are-real-4081751.html Union Budget 2019: How to stop the country from going from power to powerlessness RN Bhaskar  -- June 10, 2019 The countdown has begun.  Most marketmen have begun looking to the next budget proposals – the first to be announced by...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/eye-on-india/videos/tanker-mafia-earning-rs-8000-10000-crore-annually-from-water-biz-in-mumbai-4057001.html Water series – 3:The stranglehold of the water-tanker-mafia Other articles in this series are given below: RN Bhaskar – 3 June 2019 Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra – maybe even the rest of India – is in the grip of what...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/water-usage-lessons-india-should-learn-from-china-4026441.html Water Series 2: Lessons to learn from China on water management (Other articles in this series are given below) RN Bhaskar -- May 27, 2019 The origins of this article lie in what this author wrote in the first quarter of 2009...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/even-the-iip-suggests-that-india-has-a-painful-six-months-ahead-unless-3995381.html The IIP points to economic slowdown RN Bhaskar -- May 20, 2019 The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers finally confirmed a pattern that many said was likely to emerge.  But the picture could get darker in the coming six months. There...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.htmlhttps://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.html Water series-1 (list of the entire series given at the end of this article) India’s rapidly worsening water crisis RN Bhaskar  -- May 21, 2019 The old talk about water wars may not be entirely true today. But in India it could...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/opinion-efficient-dispute-redressal-system-a-must-to-boost-fdi-3943071.html FDI and dispute redressal will soon assume crucial significance RN Bhaskar -- May 07, 2019 The slowdown in the Indian economy was much in evidence almost six months ago.  This author highlighted it through these columns in January this year (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-brace-yourself-for-an-economic-slowdown-3401971.html)....
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/new-government-will-inherit-unpaid-infrastructure-bill-of-rs-12-4-lakh-crore-3937001.html Unpaid bills for the new government RN Bhaskar -- May 06, 2019 The latest report titled ‘Status of Infrastructure projects’, from CARE Ratings (dated 18 April 2019) makes for interesting reading.  But reading between the numbers, it becomes evident that the...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/opinion-the-increasing-relevance-of-gold-3915741.html The increasing relevance of gold RN Bhaskar -- 1 May 2019 During the past decade many central banks have opted to purchase gold and shore up their gold reserves.  This is in contrast to the previous decade when many central banks...