Data doesn’t show universal backwardness for SC/ST/OBC as a group; so the days of blanket reservation are clearly over
In the past, tax raids add just a small fraction to the assessee’s income, and even those cases often fail
Trai has repeatedly got it wrong, and not just on auctions, but govt continues to blindly follow its recommendations. Govt…
New laws on ‘intermediaries’ are open-ended and worrying
Allowing a new buyer of a PSU to get rid of staff, or to shut subsidiaries, implies a whole new…
Bureaucrats may stymie what the ministers want, but the only way to fix that is to have sweeping reforms
Govt chance of winning Vodafone/Cairn appeals poor & Cairn has already made the first move to attach India’s assets
Govt chance of winning Vodafone/Cairn appeals poor & Cairn has already made the first move to attach India’s assets
As Modi said about the private sector, appreciate what Amazon/Walmart have done & allow FDI in multi-brand retail
Rare to see a PM praising private sector in the way Modi did; vital to ensure this is translated into…
Even Punjab CM knows reforms are needed to get the state back in shape, but he seems unable to even…
To benefit small farmers, food subsidies & MSP must be slashed; the PM, however, indicated no change in either
For future auctions, remove the deferred payment formula; vital to immediately allow spectrum hypothecation to banks
Upping the ante on Twitter was a bad idea, likely to backfire
Budget ticks all the boxes, higher spend to stimulate GDP along with big reforms
Union Budget 2021 India: There are five essential things that you should watch for in the Union Budget Speech to…
Expenditure growth has to be high, a lot of privatisation, no new cess, big infra-push & 1991-style sweeping reform
“When we started in 2010, it was probably one of the worst times to start broking as a business. So,…
