View: Major challenges that await Joe Biden when he officially steps into the White HouseBesides, as a senator from Delaware for 36 successive years from 1973 to 2009, he knows full well the personalities and machinations of the...
08 Dec, 2020, 09.52 AM IST
View: Tanishq advertisement controversy and India’s creepy-crawliesThe other issue is ‘fear’. BJP patriarch L K Advani had chastised the media during the Emergency when he said, ‘You were asked to bend, you...
16 Oct, 2020, 12.07 PM IST
View: Yes, we will breach the deficit target. But demand growth can save the economyRegrettably, one sees the same importance to penny-pinching in India —of minimising additional expenditure, of containing the fiscal defici...
12 May, 2020, 12.26 AM IST
View: To lock down any further will devastate the economy, almost to a point of no returnThe lockdown was like the chakravyuh that you can enter, but never exit. So, cut the Gordian knot.
25 Apr, 2020, 06.25 AM IST
View: It's all too easy to criticiseFirst, was a 21-day lockdown necessary? All medical advice mandates isolation and careful social distancing. That doesn’t necessarily mean ...
02 Apr, 2020, 11.11 PM IST
View: Such a missed opportunity, obscured by a ‘bouquet’The FM should have picked 3-4 programmes that could have generated additional income for the rural poor.
02 Feb, 2020, 11.28 AM IST
View: Independent Directors' registration process is absurd and embodies bureaucratic overkillThis is a ridiculous set of rules and procedures that uses the power of the State to mandatorily collect data from us, and park these at an...
17 Jan, 2020, 12.00 AM IST
View: CAA, NRC instruments for creating a majoritarian IndiaToday, the greatest challenge to the future of national harmony, sanity and a secular life in this multi-religious and multi-cultural count...
22 Dec, 2019, 10.56 PM IST
View: A booster shot for India Inc is nice. But how will this lead to greater consumption?Most experts agree that the fundamental cause of India’s growth slowdown is insufficient consumption.
26 Sep, 2019, 06.24 AM IST
View: Accommodative monetary policy and less stingy bankers can help India at this pointThe annualised real GDP growth rate for April-June 2018 was 8%. That fell to 7% in July-September 2018. Fell further to 6.6% in October-Dec...
07 Aug, 2019, 11.43 PM IST
View: After the hasty patch-up, can RBI & govt now behave like mature adults?Here's why we should protect a central bank’s de facto independence from the executive
03 Nov, 2018, 12.15 PM IST
The stairway to climb to 7.5% growth is still missing: Omkar Goswami, Founder, CergWithout huge excess capacities, growth tomorrow depends upon investments today. Consider the ratio of gross fixed capital formation to GDP....
01 Feb, 2018, 11.59 PM IST
Naresh Chandra: The bureaucrat who spoke the right words, and nothing moreNaresh Chandra had to take the flak from President Clinton, Madeline Albright and pretty much anyone who mattered in the State Department a...
11 Jul, 2017, 12.32 AM IST
Budget 2015 likely to be starting point for Govt’s growth push: Dr. Omkar Goswami, CERG Advisory"I believe PM Modi and FM Arun Jaitley will do the needful to generate the required animal spirit. Going forward, it will ensure a rise in ...
23 Feb, 2015, 11.11 AM IST
Economists for lowering of interest rate, removal of cess to revive investment cycle and growthObserving that the economic growth has slipped to below 5% in recent years, FM stressed, "the economic growth cannot be compromised at any ...
10 Jun, 2014, 11.12 PM IST
- New govt faces huge task of structural, financial sector reforms
With the country struggling through slowdown, the new UPA government will face the mammoth task of carrying out further structural and fina...
17 May, 2009, 12.17 PM IST
- Countries snap back at OECD tax haven lists
OECD's lists include Philippines, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg along with Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
04 Apr, 2009, 10.28 PM IST