COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Pay hike to MPs
A hike in the allowances and perks to MPs seems to be in the offing. The reaction from members of the public, randomly interviewed by TV channels, has been caustic. Sadly, those elected to State legislatures ...
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
To track the fund or manager?
Mutual fund industry is becoming very HR-critical
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VISION 2020
A conventional Approach still
The Eleventh Plan Approach Paper has been accused of departing from conventional wisdom. But it has not departed enough. The critical issues it lists are all chronic sores that innovation, not conventional wisdom, can solve. But the Approach has no answer, rues P. V. INDIRESAN.
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CHAT
Two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff
Jogin was surprised that Wal-Mart had posted its first quarterly profit decline in 10 years. Sridevi spent an afternoon reading about the founding of Infosys. Dakshinamoorthy cranked up his worksheet to analyse global car sales. And Khan ...
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JOTTINGS
Gullibility unlimited
Mumbai city is in the grip of yet another wild rumour, this time that the sea water in some parts of the city has turned less saline, thanks to the magical powers of a saint. So gullibility and mass hysteria strikes once again! A few years ago, ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
Bottle-up that saucy raider
Corporate raiders may play a beneficial role in shaking up an atrophied management but it is a specific role and there must be limits on it. Running an enterprise is very different from financial jugglery and it is time corporate raiders were given t hat message. Investor groups that buy 5 per cent or more of the stock of a company and want to have a say in the management should be required to hold on for two years or pay a tax to the stock exchange if they intend to exit earlier.
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