Beyond the Budget: strengthening delivery With the 2005-06 Budget just around the corner, I took some time to look at the highlights of the last… 21 years ago
Sebi: the unfinished agenda GN Bajpai?s exit as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) was, in many ways, exactly like… 21 years ago
The real prize for manufacturing What is manufacturing?s real prize? It is the expanded home market for consumer goods, both durable and non-durable, and the… 21 years ago
Copycat investment does not pay Globalisation today has its own contradictory rules. One of these is that consumers do not generally go for copies where… 21 years ago
Will the new GSP play an April Fool joke on India? India will be an important beneficiary of the revised generalised system of preferences (GSP) which the European Union (EU) will… 21 years ago
Expenditure management: yet to happen The coming Budget is likely to be centred around tax reforms. Expenditure reforms are unrelenting and full of drudgery. On… 21 years ago
SMEs are in urgent need of an IPR and patenting infrastructure With the advent of a knowledge driven economy and in this era of the WTO and Trips, the focus has… 21 years ago
Breathing easy on the friendship bus The photograph in The Indian Express showing a signpost beside the Uri road that will lead the bus from Srinagar… 21 years ago
Removing distortions is a taxing challenge! The issues of a level playing field for manufacturing, of parity between cost structures of imported and locally manufactured items,… 21 years ago
Prosper-thy-neighbour in South Asia The postponement of the Dhaka Summit of Saarc, twice over the past two months, is a setback for the fledgling… 21 years ago
The Bajpai years at Mittal Court I remember the day, three years before, when I went with a couple of colleagues of mine to meet GN… 21 years ago
Reverse book building – working well When a committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in 2002 recommended a ?reverse booking… 21 years ago
Rules of thumb while buying Indian miniatures The Indian miniatures market essentially reflects a number of different trends: those of the imperial Mughal galleries which are basically… 21 years ago
Babus and their manipulative ways Once again, the Red Fort in Delhi is in the news. Once again, the Archaeological Survey of India is finding… 21 years ago
Diaspora and public diplomacy During a recent trip to Italy, it was a pleasant surprise to find that Bride and Prejudice was a big… 21 years ago
The branding of education There is an evolution in branding even where education in India is concerned. And if you look around, then pioneers… 21 years ago
It?s all about looking good Has the dust finally settled on whether we are manufacturing beauty queens to feed the giant and hungry global beauty… 21 years ago
An interesting tale of two deals Two weeks ago, I wrote that Gujarat Ambuja Cement?s (GACL) reason for relinquishing control over ACC to global cement major… 21 years ago
1,000 vacancies for nearly 5 lakh jobseekers: Modi govt’s MSME job portal seems struggling to take off
Summer vacation in West Bengal schools to start from April 20 in view of rising COVID-19 cases: Minister
