Airports are local monopolies, for the most part. Who gets to operate them and on what terms matter to the public at large. Sure, there is a regulator, the Aeronautic Economic Regulatory Authority of India to regulate aeronautical and other charges at any given airport.
TK ARUN Canadian PM’s Davos freedom-from-hegemony speech has been hailed for bold realism; few realise the geopolitical strategy he outlined was called Non-Aligned, from Nehru’s time BRICS is a coalition of the largest emerging markets, striving to expand the space…
TK ARUN The promise of emerging markets contrasted sharply with unrest in Iran and a reminder of technological fallibility closer to home. Can bad news for the rich world spell good news for the rest, in today’s interdependent world? It…
Fertiliser subsidy fuels pollution and inefficiency, distorting farm output, poisoning water, and locking agriculture into a costly cycle of excess and imbalance
T.K. ARUN Here is a wish list of policy reforms that India desperately needs, and will give coherence to what has already been implemented. Some have been promised by the government but have not been delivered. Some merely need to…
The government should have referred the Bill to a parliamentary committee to iron out differences, instead of using its legislative majority to pass it as introduced.