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A K BhattacharyaBusiness Standard |
At HDFC Bank, the number of non-supervisory staff has declined by close to 5 per cent at the end of March 2026. But the strength of supervisory staff...
While HDFC Bank plans to appoint Rajiv Kumar as its part-time chairman, two other banks, ICICI and Kotak Mahindra, also have retired IAS officers as...
The expected softening of international crude oil prices in the coming months should not again lull the government into policy inertia or inaction.
The fiscal deficit should be contained through a tight vigil on subsidies by allowing necessary increases in retail prices of commodities like petrol,...
Highly dependent on central devolutions, vulnerable state budgets face a severe squeeze on critical capital expenditure.
From Modi's recent forex-saving appeals to Shastri and Manmohan Singh, speeches alone won't fix India's economic crisis.
The EAC-PM and a new-look NITI Aayog can supplement the efforts of the RBI and the finance ministry in improving our understanding of the Indian...
Even if there is an early agreement on a cessation of hostilities in Iran, the price shock will not go away easily. Global prices of oil and gas will...
Even if there is an early agreement on a cessation of hostilities in Iran, the price shock will not go away easily. Global prices of oil and gas will...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has admitted the enormity of the challenges arising out of the conflict in West Asia, but has said the government...
The government’s supposedly investor-friendly Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy in 2016 has failed to yield results. India’s domestic...
Before attempting to answer whether the Rozgar Melas are working, it would be useful to take a look at the performance of the Modi govt on this front...
Years of waiting for a revival in private corporate investment is coming to an end. But the government doesn't seem to be taking chances.
Budget 2026 will achieve many firsts, but future ones should be cast in a different mould.
The absence of major adjustments in tax rates has meant a decline in general interest in the annual budgets, with less curiosity about what they...
The IndiGo crisis shows it's time to empower the DGCA as an independent statutorily approved regulator and not just as an attached office of the civil...
The last 17 months have seen a gradual deferment of and pushback against schemes that are protectionist by nature.
Barring her first two Budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has always ended the year with either a lower fiscal deficit figure than what she had projected or...
Implementing the ambitious electricity law changes can be easier with the promise of an Electricity Council, which is modelled on the GST Council.
Two possible reasons could have caused the rise in the share of loans and advances in the Centre’s capex plan.
The government’s post-Covid policy was to keep the fiscal deficit under check, rein in its revenue expenditure, and spend more on building...
The rate rationalisation this time will impact over 420 goods covering a vast range of sectors. The first two exercises to revamp the GST regime were...
The Union department of food and public distribution has asked states to weed out ineligible beneficiaries of PMGKAY by the end of next month. But...
The IGST component of total import duty collections is growing faster than that from Customs duty. And states enjoy a larger share in the rapidly...
The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its...
About seven decades ago, the Indian government under PM Jawaharlal Nehru nationalised three major entities. Their journey has one clear message.
Among the Budgets Nirmala Sitharaman has presented over the past six years, revenue overestimation was a big problem in the Budget for 2019-20, her...
The government must find out what constrains Indian companies from exploring the domestic market for investment with the same zeal as they are showing...
A minor slippage in the deficit target is preferable to a cut in capex.
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