Economy
Fleecing taxpayers to fatten fraudsters
Behind every great fortune, wrote the French author Honore de Balzac, lies a great crime—or a great scam, which is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:59Modi triggers a quit India movement
In Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged, business leaders start disappearing from America because of stifling government controls. Something similar...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:50Privatisation only solution to improve public banks
‘Tis a lesson you should heed:/Try, try, try again./If at first you don’t succeed,/Try, try, try again—so goes the inspirational...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Feb 2018, 05:02The pot calling the kettle black
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has got some cheek. Instead of apologizing to the nation for letting Nirav Modi rob the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Feb 2018, 12:08No one is talking about bank privatization
The debt recovery process in the cases of Bhushan Power & Steel Limited, Electrosteel Steels, Essar Steel, and Monnet Steel...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Dec 2017, 12:46Government intervention in economy must stop
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to project himself as pro-development and business-friendly, various organs of his government don’t...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Dec 2017, 12:36ONGC executives are trying to fool everybody
Recently, something strange happened. A news item flashed on Google News: ‘Privatize ONGC, don’t sell off oil fields, say company...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Dec 2017, 11:31Bank recapitalization is waste of money
Child marriage is a social evil, so it should be eradicated. But what if everybody seeks to preserve it? It’s...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Nov 2017, 02:08RSS chief knocks some sense into the Government
The Narendra Modi government’s positive and prompt action on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s appeal, that small businesses be...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 Oct 2017, 11:49With ministers like Piyush Goyal, Modi needs no enemies
People doing business in India—from the humble dhaba owner to the corporate bosses—are a patient lot. They take the shenanigans...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Sep 2017, 11:09