The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 16, 2008

OPINION

ECONOMY: Global recession: How deep and for how long?
As 2008 entered its final month, predictions of where the world economy is heading turned dire. The World Bank projected world output to grow by a mere 0.9 per cent in 2009 ( compared with 2.5 per cent in 2008 and a high of 4 per cent in 2006) ...

TERRORISM: Of hate — stated and unstated
Two shoes were flung at the US President, Mr George W. Bush, at a joint press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, in Iraq on Sunday. The Iraqi journalist who dared to do this, unmindful of the consequences, was a 28-year ...

LETTERS: Inspired by Bt cotton
The author has made sweeping statements about Bt Cotton in the article “GM food: Substantial progress made in research” (Business Line, December 15). One, the cotton story of India cannot be made into a cause ...

LETTERS: Manufacturing cos plan to cut inventory
This is with reference to the report “Manufacturing cos plan to cut 50 per cent inventory in three months” (Business Line, December ...

EDITORIAL: Foreign airline phobia
Eleven years ago the Civil Aviation Ministry introduced a guideline that said only foreigners who had no experience in running an airline can pick up a stake in a domestic airline. It was an odd policy especially when the same Government of the ...

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

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