Early April in London, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the India-UK Investor Roundtable painting a vivid picture of India’s financial sector — open to the world,…
Too Many `Episodes’: Where Does The Buck Stop?
Last Monday, April 28, IndusInd Bank Ltd’s deputy chief executive officer resigned. A day later, its managing director and CEO followed suit, “owning moral responsibility”…
How To Make Health Insurance Healthy
On July 16 last year, a private hospital at Patran in Patiala, Punjab, sought authorisation from a large health insurance company for cashless treatment of…
What Comes First, Chicken or Egg?
What came first: The chicken or the egg? Since the amniotic egg showed up roughly 340-odd million years ago, and the first chicken evolved around…
An 8-Minute Video & a GM’s Promotion At a Public Sector Bank
March marks the end of a financial year. For employees of listed banks, this is a tough month since both the regulator and the investors…
Reserve Bank Of India Message Is Loud & Clear: More Rate Cuts Will Follow
Finally, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kicked off an easy-money policy regime. At the end of the three-day meeting of its rate-setting body,…
Expect 25 BPS Rate Cut But No Change In Policy Stance
In March, the US Federal Reserve kept policy rates unchanged, extending the pause that began in January after three successive rate cuts. It preferred to…
What Bengal Thinks Today, Will India Think Tomorrow?
Remember the Tata Nano Singur controversy? A Left Front government in power for 34 years was brought down by a storm over its dream to…