Page 12 - Interviews

Amid Covid-19 crisis, timely salaries, pensions is priority: Sushil Modi

He says while Bihar was comfortable in terms of revenue till the previous financial year, the coming days will be tough and he is hopeful the Centre will increase the limit under the FRBM

Why is Centre so stingy with spending amid Covid crisis, says Kerala FM

Kerala FM Thomas Isaac says the state could face a severe financial crisis if the Centre does not increase the borrowing limit by 1% of GDP

Handling of lockdown brings back DeMo memories: Economist Jean Dreze

Dreze was part of academicians and activists who recently wrote to the Centre about the situation of the migrant workers

Covid-19 crisis: Don't see a recession, recovery from Q2, says Rajiv Kumar

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar tells Indivjal Dhasmana that since the approach followed to give the package is graded, one can assume that more would be announced if there is requirement

Coronavirus may impact investments into India from Japan: Keiichi Onozawa

In the long term, however, we reaffirmed the importance of robust global supply chain

We have to treat the economy as if this is wartime, says Rathin Roy

The impact of the crisis, even without community transmission, is also not going to be negligible, says Roy

Economic recovery may be protracted over Covid-19: Head of equity, Axis MF

Fear of contraction has kept demand low, especially across the services sectors like airlines, hotels and events, says Gopani

Ongoing land conflicts affecting lives, livelihoods of over 6.5 mn people

State govts are failing to realise that farmers, landowners are much more aware of the actual market value of their land and about the legal provisions related to consent and rehabilitation etc

People complain about getting low returns on annuity: PFRDA chairman

He tells Indivjal Dhasmana there is no turf war between PFRDA and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irdai)

Low oil prices good for importing countries like India: HPCL chairman

What happened in China is, to some extent, related to COVID-19, but (the fall in oil price) is independent in its own ways

With Trump, often symbolism is the substance, says Ashley J Tellis

He tells Aditi Phadnis India will not be able to put off crucial trade and other decisions in its dealing with the US much longer

We must work today to develop technologies of tomorrow: DRDO chief

In the 'Make in India' programme, the role of DRDO is to support industry with technologies that are, as far as possible, developed within the country, says DRDO chief G S Reddy

GST rates are revenue negative; rejigging slabs will take time: John Joseph

The rates right now are revenue negative and not revenue neutral, he added

Monetary Policy focused on improving rate transmission: RBI bosses

Das also clarified that at the moment there is no plan to monetise government deficit

Budget strikes right balance between growth push and fiscal discipline: CEA

So, at least for me, the way I would look at it is that before the Budget, we were actually looking at 3.3 per cent for this year and 3 per cent for next year

Budget 2020: 10% GDP growth a conservative estimate, says Atanu Chakraborty

With a conservative lens, these are the numbers that looked plausible, Chakraborty said

We will see a second wave of privatisation in FY21, says Dipam secy

'We are moving towards privatisation after a long time', said Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Budget: Those taking I-T exemptions will gain if they shift, says AB Pandey

The new regime is simple, one has to see the exemptions one was taking earlier and compare the new tax rates without those exemptions, the Revenue Secretary said

One must be able to get coal from various sources with ease: Pralhad Joshi

"There is a shortfall and that's why we have opened up the sector. About the SHAKTI Policy… my predecessor Piyush Goyal has done well. But why are all these policies needed?", says Pralhad Joshi

Global oil mkt well supplied, crude price to remain at $60/bbl: IEA chief

"Oil prices rising to triple digits, as some are people saying, is not something that I believe in," says International Energy Agency's Fatih Birol