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Dealing with Domestic Black Money
March 14 , 2016 Prof R Vaidyanathan
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Black money has two aspects Domestic and international. These two are interlinked at some level but can be tackled separately. In India domestic black money is large and it creates havoc with our econom...

Economic Studies

Tags : Denomination black money , Domestic Black Money

Intense public debate in Japan over the Historic Security Legislation
March 14 , 2016 Lalit Joshi
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government passed a legislation on 19 September 2015 that now enables Japan’s military to mobilize overseas when Japan or its close ally is attacked, threatens Japan’...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Historic Security Legislation , Japan , Self Defence Force

How can we be not Proud of Our Flag
March 10 , 2016 Dr A Surya Prakash
Views: 2790
The last fortnight has seen an intense debate over the unfortunate happenings in some university campuses including Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jadavpur, where some students raised anti-nation...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Anti-National slogans , Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) , Kashmir issue

Is Selling PSBs to Foreigners Rajan's Agenda?
March 9 , 2016 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
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If news reports are to be believed, the Finance Ministry seems to be caving in to the RBI strategy to sell Public Sector Banks and is raising the limits of FDI in banks to 49% — thus virtually paving th...

Economic Studies

Tags : Global banking complexity , Indian financial economy

Indian Economy for Dummies - II
March 8 , 2016 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Views: 4034
In the second of a three-part series on the Indian economy ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget, well-known commentator on political and economic affairs, S Gurumurthy argues that the Indian fa...

Economic Studies

Tags : Indian Economy , S Gurumurthy , Western bias

Indian Economy for Dummies - I
March 7 , 2016 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Views: 5128
It’s that time of the year when ‘experts’ throw around intimidating economic jargon to ‘advise’ the government and ostensibly enlighten us all on what’s wrong with our economy. Starting today, we bring ...

Economic Studies

Tags : Indian Economy , National GDP

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