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  • column-while-they-were-sleeping

    Friday 26 Apr '13Around 2003-04, the ubiquitous posters on the post office walls across India urging people to invest in government small savings schemes vanished.
  • column-government-is-a-growth-multiplier

    Thursday 14 Mar '13Moody’s Analytics has recently taken on the RBI Governor for apparently suggesting that India could come closer to double-digit growth.
  • column-now-you-see-it-now-you-don-t

    Friday 15 Feb '13FY12’s budget assumed a gross capital formation of R82,931 cr but the revised figure was Rs 70,050 cr.
  • column-how-good-money-goes-waste

    Wednesday 09 Jan '13The sense of outrage in India tends to move in such a high octane drive that even prosaic subjects like bank credit often become a victim to it.
  • column-what-nib-must-watch-out-for

    Thursday 01 Nov '12There is a larger abdication of responsibility by line ministries that is likely to be the NIB’s biggest problem.
  • column-what-will-stop-backstopping-of-power-

    Wednesday 03 Oct '12State borrowings are riding on Centre’s guarantees, but the next Pay Commission will upset this equation.
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  • column-club-smaller-psbs-into-a-larger-bank

    Tuesday 11 Sep '12Which sector in India shows up with most competitors? Also, which sector in India offers an almost monopoly-like situation for customers?
  • column-how-govt-cries-wolf-to-rating-agencies

    Wednesday 05 Sep '12In April, they were assured diesel prices would be revised, kerosene decontrolled & subsidised LPG capped by May 15.
  • column-rbi-has-only-itself-to-blame

    Saturday 18 Aug '12If banks are cooking books or not lending enough to certain sectors, there’s no use RBI officials fulminating about it.
  • column-darkness-at-noon

    Thursday 02 Aug '12While PGCIL lines are one of the best globally, the state electricity board lines are in bad shape.
  • column-resolving-mystery-of-akhilesh-s-rs.-90000-cr

    Thursday 12 Jul '12With around Rs. 1,00,000 crore of money meant to be spent on plan projects lying unutilised in banks at any point in time, the central government is clearly guilty of being a bad manager of money—after all, that’s R8,500 crore of annual interest costs lost year after year.
  • column-new-fm-s-first-priority

    Friday 22 Jun '12For Pranab’s successor, making GST a reality will possibly be the best healing dose for the economy.
  • column-let-the-regulators-decide-please

    Monday 11 Jun '12Chief of the Securities and Exchange Board of India UK Sinha rarely speaks out of turn.
  • column-a.w.o.l.

    Friday 01 Jun '12In a single year, this government has managed to bring us back to the Hindu rate of growth.
  • column-more-grey-in-white-paper

    Wednesday 23 May '12Parts of it contradict one another, and there is a strong line on the role of globalisation in generating black money.
  • of-principles-and-principal

    Saturday 12 May '12As a response to the storm around the economy, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee made a terribly wrong speech in Parliament on Tuesday.
  • who-s-monitoring-the-spending-

    Thursday 03 May '12By the end of this week Parliament will have approved the central government plan to spend R6,10,000 crore this year, without an appreciation that nearly 80% of that money will be cash handouts with very little checks and balances.
  • column-banking-on-trouble

    Tuesday 10 Apr '12The top 5 PSU banks have far lower NPA provisioning than what RBI prescribes—as NPAs rise, this will worsen.
  • column-what-s-so-special-about-pnotes-

    Wednesday 04 Apr '12If Vodafone is to be taxed, it’s difficult to see how the FM can exempt P-Notes—more so since FIIs are to be taxed.
  • to-market-to-market-

    Wednesday 28 Mar '12At the current rate of growth, it will take Assam some 80 years to reach the level of today’s Gujarat.
  • column-disinvestment-primer-fy13

    Tuesday 20 Mar '12The key to the fiscal numbers in 2012-13 will be the R30,000 crore disinvestment target. Along with the telecom spectrum auction and the 2% additional indirect tax, this is among the three top revenue raising measures in Budget FY13.
  • column-the-day-the-market-died

    Monday 05 Mar '12We have finally managed to breach the final frontier in the Indian financial market.
  • column-don-t-bank-on-the-maharaja

    Saturday 25 Feb '12One is the banker to every Indian, the other is the maharajah in the sky.
  • column-l-t-versus-irfc

    Wednesday 22 Feb '12Investors reckon L&T Infra as one of the finest in its class in the Indian space.
  • column-the-fm-s-limited-freedom

    Saturday 18 Feb '12Central plan outlays can hardly be hiked, so the only option to stimulate spending is to restructure subsidies.