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ECONOMY: The worrisome imbalance
The latest reports speak of an international agency indicating a downgrading of India’s credit status to reflect its concerns about the alleged or real weaknesses of the fiscal position of India. Time was when such sabre rattling by ...

SPORTS: The can-do Olympics spirit
Last Friday, I was in Beijing and, it was the kind of day the Chinese Government undeniably wanted to have for the Olympics opening. A sunny blue sky over Beijing with barely a cloud to be seen and the western mountains plainly visible in the ...

ECONOMY: Push to development agenda
The 15th Summit of SAARC leaders in Colombo came to a rewarding conclusion. The main gain is the crisp and precise Colombo Declaration. The Colombo Statement on Food Security, in fact, is a strong vindication of the aspirations of the people in ...

EDITORIAL: Conflicting standards
Lay investors have had enough reason to entertain misgivings about whether financial statements do indeed reflect an enterprise’s performance accurately. That is bound to be reinforced by the recently surfaced dichotomy between the ...

BANKING: The SHG lifeline
It was good to see their confident smiles as they opened a tin box and brought out the photograph of their Pir. They lit a few incense sticks near the picture before they started the interaction with some trainee bankers. It was clear that there ...

LINGUISTICS: Minting new words and phrases
A vibrant language puts on new glitter and mints new words and phrases to suit the context and the times. English is pre-eminent in this respect. Without any pretensions and presumptions, it lends itself for a variety of uses in the hands, or ...

LETTERS: Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court’s ruling to allow mining and construction activities at the ecologically-sensitive Niyamgiri Hills may have boosted the morale of the investment community, but has definitely dealt a blow to the local tribes and ...

LETTERS: Eradicating poverty
The editorial “Food for thought” has correctly underlined the urgent need for reforming the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country to eradicate poverty (Business Line, August 8). ...






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