Co-operative Banks – Understanding The Structure..
RBI has been deliberating upon creating an umbrella structure to monitor and regulate co-operative banks (CBs), a long debated proposal. CBs gained lot of prominence subsequent to demonetization for being…
Natural Gas Market in India – An Overview
The recent changes in oil and gas exploration & production regulations, some of which envisages going back to earlier system, indicate the challenges being faced by the sector. Natural gas…
Indian Imports – Where Does the Money Go??
India’s imports for April-Dec’18 period touched nearly $350 bn, an increase of 12% over previous year as per the Commerce Ministry data. This would be the second year of double…
Weekly Round Up – Week 9
Major events of the week are release of GDP data for quarter ending Dec’18, change in GST tax rate for housing sector and government decision on Air India. On corporate…
Shares Pledging – Understanding The Risks
Sale of pledged shares of certain corporate groups by the lenders has once again brought share pledging into focus. The practice had generated lot of controversy over a decade ago…
Understanding Indus Water Treaty…
The ‘non-military preemptive’ action carried out by India yesterday is the culmination of long advocated line of action to eliminate the menace of terrorism. Other than these, a measure proposed…
Weekly Round Up – Week 8
Major events of the week were Changes in rules governing Oil & Gas exploration, fund infusion by the government in Public sector banks and Relaxation in Angel Tax in economy and policy space.…
Towards Efficient Electricity Market (Part III)
After the creation of single market for manufacturing and services through GST, for agriculture through E-NAM (still, work-in-progress), it is the turn of electricity market. CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission)…
Reliance Communications – Analyzing The Failure..
Reliance Communications’ plea to NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal) to proceed with insolvency process marks the demise of another telecom company. The insolvency plea was filed against RCom by Ericson,…
Chinese Economy – Challenge of Transition…
After growing at an average pace of about 10% for more than two decades, Chinese economy has cooled down to 6-7% range over last 3-4 years. This is the result…