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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...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/to-prevent-child-sex-abuse-paedophilia-needs-to-recognised-as-mental-disorder/1030860 Interview – Dr. Klaus Beier, MD PhD, Charite, Berlin Child abuse: Do you like children in ways you shouldn't? Dr. Klaus M Beier is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which is the biggest University Clinic...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-israels-second-turnaround-startup-to-super-startup/1027628 The reasons which have made Israel a super-startup nation Rn bhaskar Fifteen years ago, Israel looked a bit vulnerable – economically, not militarily. True, it sought to align itself with the western world – especially the US and the EU.  But Israel’s...