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Friday, December 12, 2008
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, December 12, 2008 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION INTERVIEW: PSUs central to generation programme It was a homecoming of sorts for Mr Jairam Ramesh, when he took charge as the Minister of State for Power in April this year. He had worked at Shram Shakti Bhawan nearly 25 years ago as part of the Advisory Board on Energy headed by ... EDITORIAL: Bitter truths on sugar Sugar could soon turn bitter for policymakers. In the current fiscal, sugar production is set to decline by over a fifth to about 20-21 million tonnes, following a 20 per cent drop in crop area and a 45 million tonne decline in cane output to ... ECONOMY: Bias against public spending By setting aside just Rs 20,000 crore as public expenditure in the stimulus package announced last week, the Centre has chosen to rely more on interest rate and indirect tax cuts than public spending to boost the economy. This is despite the ... TERRORISM: Pak Army’s boomerang It is now more than two weeks after Mumbai was attacked by terrorists. Since then I have been wondering why, given that terrorism, through the ages, has not achieved its objectives, do the sponsors of terrorism persist with their sponsorship of ... FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Making sense of IMF? World bodies can broadly be divided into two groups. The first comprises the United Nations (UN) and its numerous organs which are primarily meant for resolution of political, social, security and other issues bearing on relations among ... ECONOMY: Quantitative easing The recent revelation of much higher than expected job losses in the US, further strengthens the belief that the recession this time is going to be much worse and longer. However, with interest rates already near 1 per cent and a big ... INFRASTRUCTURE: Public or private ownership: Which is better for airports? The Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, admitted recently that Hyderabad and Bangalore need more than one airport and that the current contractual agreement with the private airport operators in these cities, which does not allow ... LETTERS: Pipeline problems To meet the projected energy demands of a rapidly growing India, inclusion of alternative sources of energy has to be looked at ...
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China and terror Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrasekhar • S Muralidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranbir Ray Choudhury • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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