Nantoo Banerjee

The regular news feed by India’s Enforcement Directorate on alleged massive money laundering by the Reliance Anil Ambani Group (RAAG), which is also known as the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), seems to have been designed more to…

For an import-dependent country on critical arms supplies, it may be risky to get involved in a long-drawn war. Ukraine, currently the world’s biggest arms importer, learnt the hard truth after Donald Trump became the US president.…

If in the United States, the world’s second largest federal democracy, the number of seats in the House of Representatives could remain capped at 435 since 1913, there is no reason to justify the latest delimitation exercise to freshly fix…

The government disinvestment in India’s state-controlled enterprises is always welcome if it is aimed to make them professionally managed entities for faster growth. Unfortunately, the haphazard disinvestments in public sector enterprises…

US president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to slap a 100 percent tariff on nine-member BRICS Plus countries if they try to replace the US dollar with a common BRICS currency may at best be called as a panic reaction to Brazilian President…

The US-backed new Philippine Maritime Zones Act and Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act clearly defining the extent and boundaries of the country’s maritime zones and nullifying China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea promises to raise fresh…

It may be seen as an irony of fate that the Philippines, a pioneer of the modern rice production technology helping some of the world’s major rice producers, including India, to become self-sufficient in paddy production, has itself become…

It may look rather odd that the steel production in India, the world’s most populous country, reached only 140 million tons as against China’s output of 1.019 billion tons, last year. The main reason is that India’s housing and construction…

What a paradox? King coal refuses to surrender even as more than 40 countries at the COP26 climate summit at Glasgow pledged to ‘quit coal’. Instead, global demand for coal and price have skyrocketed over the last several months with China,…

Otrivin Oxy, a fast relief adult nasal spray over-the-counter (OTC) drug marketed in India by GlaxoSmithK line (GSK), the world’s sixth largest pharmaceutical companyby revenue, seems to have become very popular among those suffering from…

ITS INTRUSION INTO INDIAN BUSINESS IS TOO DEEP AND WIDE China’s fast economic incursion into India looks as portentous as its constant land-grab attempts into Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control. The entire Sino-Indian border…

THE GUJARAT BASED GROUP IS PRESENTLY NECK DEEP IN DEBT Adani Green Energy, a Gautam Adani company, has reportedly bagged the world’s largest contract to build a 8,000 MW-capacity photovoltaic (PV) power plant and additionally set up a…

FIRMS MAY BE ASKED TO RESCUE FY21 DIVESTMENT PLAN The pressure on lockdown-hit central public sector enterprises (PSEs) to finance the government’s growing expenditure on fighting Covid-19 pandemic resulting in large budget deficit is…

COVID-HIT ECONOMIES ARE EASY TARGETS Lockdown, global stock market collapse and negative bottom line of both large and medium enterprises are now engaging cash-rich Chinese predators to be on the prowl to take over ‘good looking’ assets as…

ECONOMY IS BRUISED BUT NOT PANICKED YET Notwithstanding poor demand and production cutback across industry, contributions worth millions of dollars from business establishments are pouring in to government and non government charities ever…

TIME RIPE FOR AN IMPACT AUDIT The government’s latest resolve to invest as large as Rs 102 lakh crore in infrastructure is most welcome But, it may have little impact on the country’s shrinking economic growth unless they are properly…

TREND MAY CONTINUE THROUGH 2020S Gone are the days of the multidimensional industrial house concept. And, so is the leadership of the Marwari business community. India's private sector industrial and business environment has seen a sea…

PUBLIC SECTOR CONTROL IN OIL RETAILING MAY SOON END India’s fuel refining and marketing business, largely controlled by public sector enterprises, faces a big shake up following the government policy to induce foreign oil companies to…

TIME TO RAISE BANK RATES, STABILISE ECONOMY Indian economy is witnessing an amazing contradiction. Its growth rate in 2019 is among the lowest in the last two decades. But, its stock market is booming like never before. There is every…

ECONOMIC INDICATORS SHOW INDIA’S FALLING QUALITY OF LIFE In a country where poverty, hunger and human destitution growth rates more than match the economic growth indices there ought to be something seriously wrong with that country’s…

The fear of a major global economic slowdown is driving large economies make plans to push their growth machines back on track to avoid such a situation. Large economies such as the US, China, Germany and Japan are already at work to fight…