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Sindhu Bhattacharya

Curbing Imports May Not be Such a Good Idea as Demand for Luxury Cars, Mobiles is Unlikely to Drop

Over the weekend, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed measures to cool an overheated economy, the government decided that one of the ways of doing this would be to curb “non-essential” imports....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-September 17, 2018,12:47 pm IST Opinion
Fuss Over GDP Should Push Govt to Release Authenticated Data Faster

The newly released data is a set of calculations to show what the economic growth was during previous years, calculated using the new base year, which was changed by the Modi government in 2015....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-August 20, 2018,1:43 pm IST Opinion
PM Modi Ticked All Right Boxes in his I-Day Speech. The Devil, However, Lies in Details

The biggest announcement PM Modi made during his Independence Day speech was the launch of Pradhan Mantri Arogya Abhiyan. He said India wants to offer health insurance for free to 50 crore people under ‘Ayushman Bharat’....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-August 15, 2018,3:18 pm IST Opinion
Modi Govt Plans to Follow UPA’s Air India Bailout Formula; Turnaround Plans on Hold?

A bailout package for AI does not show any serious application of mind to devising a long term strategy for the airline. This sort of piecemeal approach is unlikely to solve the AI conundrum. ...
Sindhu Bhattacharya-August 8, 2018,2:11 pm IST Business
Why Removing GST on Sanitary Pads May do Little to Make Them Affordable

Now that sanitary napkins are out of GST purview, activists need to ensure that not only are these essential items made widely available, girls are educated about the criticality of using safe hygiene methods. ...
Sindhu Bhattacharya-July 23, 2018,2:52 pm IST Opinion
Govt's Inability to Cut Duties on Fuel Contributed to Inflation Spike, Now Brace for RBI Raising Rates

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation for the month of June was at a near three-year high of 5.77% against 4.43% in May this year and 0.9% in June 2017....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-July 18, 2018,9:24 am IST Opinion
Reliance's Plan of Online-to-Offline Platform Shows Growing Importance of Retail in RIL Universe

Through the deployment of ‘merchant point of sale’ for small shop owners, RIL plans to enable them to do everything that large enterprises and large ecommerce players are able to do....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-July 6, 2018,9:44 am IST Business
How Telecom, Retail and Now Broadband Are Redefining Reliance Industries' Consumer Interface

RIL has been subtly changing its earnings profile by focusing on the new-age consumer facing businesses and how. So from a mere 2% of margins of RIL coming from these consumer businesses till year before last, their contribution within just one year shot up to 13% last fiscal....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-July 5, 2018,4:07 pm IST India
Modi Govt Fails to Find a Bride for Maharaja, Stars Never Aligned for a Match

The Air India disinvestment process began on March 28 this year and has been billed as the largest strategic disinvestment in independent India....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-June 1, 2018,4:01 pm IST Business
Brace for Train Delays as Maintenance Works Hurt Choked Network

Since 2014-15, the Railways has grappled with deadly accidents and has been blamed for lax maintenance standards besides other lapses for these mishaps. Stung by this incessant criticism, the Modi government shunted out Suresh Prabhu from the Railways Ministry in September last year, bringing in current incumbent Piyush Goyal....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-May 31, 2018,3:51 pm IST Opinion
Centre Must Slash Duties on Petrol, Diesel, Look for Augmenting Revenues Elsewhere

The government needs to cut excise duty and try to make up the consequential revenue deficit by aggressive mop up from disinvestment, better GST compliance or through sundry other means....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-May 21, 2018,4:49 pm IST Opinion
Forget Swadeshi Chants, Walmart's Flipkart Deal Should Compel Govt to Liberalise FDI in Retail

Instead of crying wolf at the arrival of Walmart or Amazon or other global majors, the smaller traders need to find out growth opportunities in the changing landscape while the government should be re-examining its FDI caps....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-May 11, 2018,2:41 pm IST Opinion
As BJP and Congress Fight Over ‘100% Electrification’, 3.14 Crore Rural Households Still in the Dark

Merely providing a village “access” to electricity does not automatically mean each household would necessarily get a connection. And even when households get that connection, there are issues with quality and duration of the power supply....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-April 30, 2018,4:02 pm IST Opinion
Rising Oil Prices Not Just Hurting the Aam Aadmi, It's Hitting the Economy Too

Since more than three fourths of India’s oil demand is met through imports, rising consumption of petroleum products amid a price spike has raised our overall import bill and thereby also worsened the trade deficit....
Sindhu Bhattacharya-May 21, 2018,1:52 pm IST Opinion
Cash Crunch: Demonetisation Return Fears Unfounded But Broken Faith in Banking System Needs Healing

Indians’ trust in its banking system was already shaken and the RBI’s recent actions do not inspire much faith. Not only currency woes, we have also seen some of the biggest banking frauds come to light over the last few months – with no clear reason why and how they were allowed to inflate under the eyes of the government and RBI. ...
Sindhu Bhattacharya-April 19, 2018,3:21 pm IST Opinion

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