The company was sold in 100 days, but will Ramalinga Raju be brought to justice as quickly asks A K Bhattacharya.
Even West Bengal units no longer have collective bargaining to fix salaries -- so why do central PSUs, asks A K Bhattacharya.
India's regulators still remain the preserve of the IAS. The time has now come to check out if the government has indeed used the better pay package for its regulators to widen the choice and attract private sector people.
The state of the economy did not deteriorate so sharply in the last eight days that the principles behind not announcing changes in tax rates in an Interim Budget had to be set aside. Nor can it be argued that the demand from industry and members of Parliament for some stimulus measures became so irresistible that the finance minister had to announce the tax rate changes in his reply to the Interim Budget debate.
Economic reforms have remained an article of faith for all the governments at the Centre in the last 18 years, irrespective of the political parties that formed them.
The party whose government presents the Interim Budget does not return to power.
Two contradictory remarks by ministers caused wild fluctuations in Satyam's stock. Why did they make them?
India Inc. may also have fallen prey to the so-called eleventh commandment of modern-day India: Thou shalt not be caught.
After all, general elections are round the corner and it is not reforms but hand-outs that will fetch greater returns.
The government has a clear set of rules that govern even the expression of personal views by IAS officers.
A slew of economic indicators in the current fiscal threatens to sully P Chidambaram's record as FM.
Indians spend Rs 11,800 crore a year on a US education as there simply aren't enough good universities here, says A K Bhattacharya.
As prime minister, Dr Singh is obviously more worried about growth, inflation and rural jobs
The irony, of course, is that even the suggestion that the petroleum and natural gas ministry thought was practical and workable has few takers in the government. Among the many suggestions on petroleum product prices, the Chaturvedi Committee had recommended dual pricing of diesel.
Not just the Indian Railways, even the state transport companies too should be subjected to the same norm of paying a market-linked price for the diesel they use. If the state transport units take an annual hit of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) because of the higher diesel price, let the additional financial burden be borne by the different state governments which run those services. Why let the state-controlled oil marketing companies bear the burden all on their own?
The Reserve Bank of India may soon be given the job of both collecting and processing inflation data.
The reason for their silence is that the Ranbaxy deal has not hurt the interests of most sections of the voting community. Let alone farmers, even the urban voters are not bothered by the deal as it has no direct adverse impact on them.
The list of departures from the path of economic reforms can be longer.
The government's response to the price hike needs to be less panicky. The imposition of export duties, reduction in import duties, increasing the minimum export prices, restricting exports and raising the cash reserve ratio for banks have been among the measures that have resulted from this concern over inflation.
The apparent reason for this bold step is SBI's concern over rising defaults on loans for such farm equipment. The additional trigger for this may have also been the SBI top management's assessment that defaults on farm equipment loans will only rise in the wake of the central government's announcement of the Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) farm loan waiver scheme.
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