Page 36 - Economy Interviews

States where there're issues, we should correct our course: Piyush Goyal

Every election is important to us, but by-elections are fought at the local level, they are not fought to form a government in Delhi, says Goyal

Narendra Modi should remember he's not PM of Gujarat: Prithviraj Chavan

If you look at the decision to buy the Rafale aircraft, it was a non-transparent decision, says Chavan

Cultural resistance in sharing power, says economist Tushaar Shah

Even without our water crisis, doubling farmers' income in five years is an unreachable target, says Shah

SWIFT was not compromised but misused, says Alain Raes

The issue with customised messages, identified by the suffix of 99, is that they are almost impossible to audit and SWIFT doesn't validate these transactions

No political reform in China since long: Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard is a professor at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. His latest book publication is Critical Readings on the Chinese Communist Party, 4 vols (2017)

'Next Half Billion' investment is unique to India: Omidyar's Roopa Kudva

'Our first cheques have ranged from $500,000 to $5 million,' said the MD of Omidyar's India operations

We see India's fiscal deficit, debt higher than peers in FY18: Fitch chief

Deterioration in balance sheets of PSU banks in excess of Fitch expectations may spur rating downgrade, says Thomas Rookmaaker, Director, Sovereign Ratings, Fitch Ratings

IBC killing banks, likely to help borrowers like Mallya: AIBEA general secy

'The government is doing a blunder', according to C H Venkatachalam

Economy in high gear, industry to start investing soon: CII President

The effects of demonetisation and the GST were felt in 2016-17 and 2017-18, says CII President

Hire and fire policy sets us apart from a govt body, says GSTN CEO

If the rates change, they have no impact on the system as they have been kept out, says Prakash Kumar

Shortage at source responsible for cash crunch: Cong's Praveen Chakravarty

The government has no business in dictating the RBI on currency management, the former investment banker said

Promoters need to give up, be more flexible in their approach: Viswanathan

Former Union law secretary,T K Viswanathan says society will benefit if an enterprise runs in a healthy manner, who ever be the promoter does not matter

State performance must be key factor: Telangana FM on FC allocations

The country has reached a stage where the negative indicators like poverty and illiteracy cannot be treated as the basic parameters for distribution of resources to the states, he said

Printing of cash to be ramped up; shortage is short-term: Sanjeev Sanyal

As with any large economy, the demand for cash does vary quite a bit in India, he said

Aadhaar is for empowerment, not Big Brother: UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey

'In order for somebody to do Big Brother kind of a job, one has to collect lots of data and Aadhaar collects very minimal data', he said

Our laws have enough provisions to book those misusing data: Prasad

Interview with Union minister for electronics and information technology on the government's views regarding data misuse

Liberalising land leasing necessary for growth, says Tajamul Haque

Uttarakhand with its new law allows the leases to last for a maximum of 30 years

There is a fiscal, political imperative to act: OECD's Pascal Saint-Amans

Even though India has started to act unilaterally to tax digital transactions, it remains committed to the adoption of a broader and widely accepted solution

Need to give quality education in India to students who fly overseas: Rajan

We have fantastic institutions. But remember, we have so many young children coming in now, looking for admission into colleges, says Rajan

Days of 'what US does today, world does tomorrow' over now: NITI Aayog VC

Rajiv Kumar says the bank privatisation has practical problems, therefore he supports Bank Investment Company