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TERRORISM: And now, giving bombs a label
All hell has broken loose after the arrest and investigation of a serving army officer, a sadhvi and a self-styled Hindu godman for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon bomb blasts in Maharashtra on September 29. The Sangh Parivar is ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Coping with the crisis
Judging from the apathetic response of the markets and economy to the Reserve Bank of India’s latest measures announced last Saturday, two suspicions now stand confirmed. Since September, the Government has erred about the source of ...

FINANCIAL POLICY: Compromising on provisioning norms
Business cycles are now accepted as being a part of the economic way of life and the prevalence of capitalism only ensures that this process is continuous. While the amplitude of these cycles has come down, they have become more common than ...

FOODGRAINS: Emaciated food policy
In the seventeenth century France, when the poor were getting restive during a famine, Marie Antoinette famously asked them to eat cake instead of bread. The result: France burned and the Empress paid dearly with her life. India might not burn, ...

EDITORIAL: Scope for autonomy
Fourteen months ago, the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) recommended public sector company boards be empowered to fix salaries and perquisites so as to prevent talent, especially at management level, leaving for greener ...

ECONOMY: Vietnam’s attitudinal progress
Vietnam has made noticeable progress in the short time it has been liberated from the French and the American bombardment, which shattered the country. After a visit there, one cannot help but be impressed with the ...

LETTERS: Downtrodden, forgotten!
The article “Problem is absence of will, not lack of resources” (Business Line, November 24) speaks the whole truth and does so directly. SEZs in India have earned the notoriety of lacking even the ...

LETTERS: Financial emergency
This has reference to the report “Jet Airways to cut salaries by 5-25 per cent, which says the move, to be implemented according to salary grades, covers employees drawing over Rs 75,000 per month (Business Line, ...






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