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Book Review: My Years in an Indian Prison 

So much is being written about political prisoners in India these days, that the layman might succumb to the temptation of focusing more on the…

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MANILA OUTLINES 1988 BORROWING, BUDGET PLANS

7 January 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, Jan 7 – The Philippine government will issue treasury bills and notes totalling 29.8…

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PHILIPPINES MOVES TO SPEED UP DEBT/EQUITY SWAPS

19 February 1988  Reuters News  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  English  MANILA, Feb 19 – The Philippines plans to speed up its sluggish debt/equity swap program,…

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Philippines Bit player in debt reform-fernandez

19 February 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, Feb 19 – The Philippines’ 27.8 billion dollar foreign debt makes it a bit…

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MANILA SPECULATORS PLAY ROULETTE WITH OIL STOCKS

18 March 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, March 18, Reuter – Volatile penny oil stocks have raised trading on Manila’s two…

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PHILIPPINE GNP SEEN GROWING 6.1 PCT IN 1988

4 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 4, Reuter – The Philippines’ gross national product (GNP) is expected to expand…

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JAPAN STRUGGLES TO USE ADB TO RECYCLE SURPLUSES

20 April 1988  Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, April 20, Reuter – Japan’s attempt to use the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to…

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Nepal aims at independent central bank

22 May 1997  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  KATHMANDU, May 22 (Reuter) – Nepal’s coalition government plans to grant the Himalayan kingdom’s central…

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PHILIPPINES TO ASK BANKS, IMF FOR NEW LOANS  

28 July 1988   Reuters News  English  (c) 1988 Reuters Limited  MANILA, July 28, Reuter – The Philippines plans to approach its creditor banks for a…

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JAPAN APPROVES $87 MILLION SPENDING PLAN 

29 August 1992  Los Angeles Daily News Valley  B2  English (Copyright 1992)  The Japanese government Friday approved an $87 billion spending package – the nation’s…

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Japan’s economy sinks deeper into mire

14 September 1993  Reuters News  English  (c) 1993 Reuters Limited  TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuter) – Japan’s sickly economy has been contracting as its stubborn trade…

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RBI will not allow rupee volatility – Chidambaram. 

29 August 1997  14:33  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the rupee’s…

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India raises import duties to fight deficit 

16 September 1997  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (Reuter) – India’s government, clearly alarmed by a fiscal deficit that…

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What the Government Needs to Do Now

Despite the crisis, a clear message must be sent to the investor community that India is open for business. There was an initial spurt of…

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Growth and the challenge of compensating the losers

INDIA’S ECONOMY is barrelling along at a growth rate of over 9 per cent, savings rates are up, investments are up, more jobs are being…

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Earthy Tales

Last week I was on a flight to Mumbai About two hours in, the captain announced that there was unseasonal heavy rain ahead and it…

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READING THE BAR CODES

“UPON MY WORD: India’s prisons are stuck in a time warp” STRANGE HOW time’s machine travels back and forth at warp speed. Two hundred and…

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India vows to move faster on power projects

 9 December 1997  22:46  Reuters News  English  (c) 1997 Reuters Limited  NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) – India will accelerate its drive to increase electricity…

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10 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business

They say nothing sharpens our minds as much as high danger or a threat to our survival. We are prepared to stand and fight when…

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India’s Most Valuable Companies

Once every year, we pay obeisance to the best and strongest companies in India. It is not grudging admiration. Our corporate icons deserve every bit…

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Hard Sell

We need to place the AgustaWestland helicopter “kerfuffle” as a former defence minister put it in context. The 12 AW101s were headed for the Indian…

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India’s Best CFOs: Tips From The Finest Financial Brains

I have a confession to make. Many moons ago, I studied to be an accountant and despite one of the world’s toughest entry barriers with…

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Deal Chahta Hai

A laughter club in Mumbai is forced to “zip it” because a humourless neighbour is disturbed, not long after a 63-year-old cartoon unleashes a cleansing…

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IT’S THE ELECTION, STUPID

The economy is whirling around in a populist spiral Pranab Mukherjee is starting to look worryingly like a feckless heir squandering his generous inheritance while…

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Reserve Bank-Money to Burn

Of all the functions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there is one routine task crucial to the health of the economy: incinerating the…

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Excise Duty-More Slaps Than Sops

Pranab Mukherjee’s first budget, at first glance so redolent of status quo, is peppered with little booby traps. Two paragraphs in his speech have caused…

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ITC – Haksar’s last Hurrah

Sentimentality rarely intrudes in­ to shareholders’ meetings, but this one was different. Over 3,000 had gathered in the incongruous setting of a Calcutta cathedral compound…

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A Battle Supreme

Titled Judiciary: At­tacks and Survival, the speech had been long in coming, the speaker delayed, first by an attack of diabetes in March and then…

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Mysterious U-Turn

Although it is a blasphemous thought, it has cropped up in many a legal mind during the last few weeks: if bets were placed on…

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Jagannath Mishra-Cleared By The Court

HE INDIA-RUBBER man, Jagannath Mishra, had done it again. For months, the Bihar chief minister’s political fate had hung in the balance while the Supreme…

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Cheating The Hangman

Convicted killers Billa and Ranga were expected to make headlines last fortnight. Make news, they certainly did, but not the way everybody anticipated. Instead of…

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Hanging Fire

The Quality of justice seemed to be under tremendous strain last fortnight. At issue was the vexatious question of capital punishment. As usual, the shock…

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Until Death Do Us Part

No Amount of civilised debate can take away from the savagery of the traditional Indian marriage. In the last few weeks, eight women have died…

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Snag In The Rope

Anticlimax has become the boon companion of the Supreme Court. When the court reopened on July 18 after its summer vacation, it was shadowed by…

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HOW TO DO A MANAGEMENT BUYOUT AT 30,000 FEET

The next time you are flying somewhere, do not bury your nose in a book or plug in your earphones. Take a good look around.…

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SHOW ME THE JOBS

The government is striving mightily, but the needle is moving inexorably lower on the jobs meter. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) and the…

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ENOUGH ALREADY

I wish the government would stop trying to defend demonetisation. Every time there is bad economic news, the government jumps up to proclaim that demonetisation…

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CLOSE,, BUT NO CIGAR

Finance Ministers take on a certain air when they think things are going swimmingly and nothing can rock the economy when it is cruising along.…

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KEEP THE BALLAST

Narendera Modi’s first term in office will be bracketed by malodorous stand-offs with two governors of the Reserve Bank of India. The bad blood between…

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TOO BIG TO FAIL

Independence Day is a good excuse for some economic chest-thumping. We should be proud that lndia is a free-enterprise democracy. Imagine the world’s burden if…

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NOISE OFF

My family cracks up every time we watch Noises off, the rambunction 1992 comedy. Maybe we find it funnier because we live in such a…

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VIRAL FEVER

Start exercise your smartphone thumb, because the next big election will be fought on our mobiles. The latest Internet and Mobile Association of India survey…

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Clutching At Straws

We are so frozen in the headlights of the on rushing slowdown that even a flicker leads us to believe that we have seen friendly…

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