COLUMNS
OFFHAND
B-school blues
ONCE again B-schools are in the news. The agonising over them never seems to end. It is easy to divine why this should be so. B-schools are fair game simply because, like Everest, they are there! I have a bit of a ...
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ON THE MOVE
Pirates on the prowl — High seas, low security
A RECENT report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), an ocean crime watchdog, suggests that increased vigilance by the respective law enforcement authorities has brought down the the number of armed attacks in ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Lack of buying support may weaken prices further
If the Finance Minister is successful in convincing the market players that the reforms would not be derailed, there is hardly any guarantee that strong buyers would re-enter market in the immediate term.
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
UTI, State Street deal should throw up more choices
THE deal between UTI and State Street Global Advisors, formalised last week, will open a new chapter in the history of asset management in this country. The world's top institutional asset manager will act as an advisor to its Indian ally for ...
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ADR WATCH
Firm ending
ON hopes that the country's economic growth would be promising, the US stocks rallied strongly. According to Bloomberg, benchmarks recorded their biggest weekly rise since the period ending April 2. The S&P's 500 Index gained 2.5 per cent, and ..
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VISION 2020
Wages of unemployment
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive solu tions to engineer both economic growth and full employment simultaneously, says P. V. Indiresan.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
The price of political profligacy and nepotism
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios. On taking charge of their departments, they can choose between the usual two approaches to work. ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
Beijing: In and outside the sixth ring road
THERE ARE several ring roads around Beijing. My travel guidebook, published in 2002, tells me that plans for a fifth ring road exist on paper but construction is yet to begin. Early this month, as I travelled east on ...
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