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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee is an author and contributing editor to Business Standard. He works on public policy, primarily finance, maritime, and energy issues. He writes on current economic issues at On Point with Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. He is also a Professor of Practice and director, Centre for Regulatory Governance at Jindal Global Law School at the OP Jindal Global University. He has degrees in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and the Shri Ram College of Commerce. He has worked in the Indian government as part of the Indian Information Service. He has also written for the Economic Times, Indian Express, and Financial Express newspapers.
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee is an author and contributing editor to Business Standard. He works on public policy, primarily finance, maritime, and energy issues. He writes on current economic issues at On Point with Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. He is also a Professor of Practice and director, Centre for Regulatory Governance at Jindal Global Law School at the OP Jindal Global University. He has degrees in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and the Shri Ram College of Commerce. He has worked in the Indian government as part of the Indian Information Service. He has also written for the Economic Times, Indian Express, and Financial Express newspapers.
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Instead of reforms, in many ways, 2022 is showing signs of walk back on pension reforms
While it is easier now to sue a firm for adopting harmful manufacturing processes, successive govts have dragged their feet on goading companies to take out adequate insurance
CAG audits show that more than lack of funds, it's the shortage of administrative capacity that leads to underspending on health and education
The three promoter companies have promised to plumb in equity in the ratio of 40:30:30
Based on GST records, the income tax department's investigation arm has begun to piece together the evidence and send out notices
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More than oil, as the demand for coal shoots up even further in the economy, it has become the new pressure point in the import basket of India
The war has cleaved the group, stalling much of the preparatory work on more substantive issues
Quite low in the pecking order of inbound consignments at one point, the fossil fuel today accounts for a third of the value of crude entering the country
Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), has remained above 6 per cent, the upper limit of the tolerance band, since January this year
The country's largest domestic supplier has been appointed a quasi-canalising agency for sourcing overseas supplies
The Railways' experience with its half-century-old apprenticeship programme offers a view of the problems that could occur with the armed forces' new recruitment scheme
The overwhelming number of officers in the CSS cadres are an indication of the clout it wields on key policy decisions across ministries
While it will be called the fertiliser pool with a corpus of Rs 500 crore, it can be used to cover the risks of oil and gas imports too
The regulator hints at relaxing the FDI cap still further but it is unclear yet whether doing so would spread insurance to the bottom of the pyramid
The pan-India fascination about central govt jobs is the context of PM Modi's new plan to recruit one million staffers within less than two years
There is no agency equipped to handle such a large hiring target and governments don't have a clear picture on the number of people they employ
The lack of market reform in electricity pricing has limited states' ability to expand capital expenditure on the critical transition to clean energy
The Centre's comments are significant as the G7 countries have criticised India's ban on wheat exports