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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 3G: Unique IDs for a billion-plus Indians
I had earlier shared my thoughts on how 3G technology can facilitate business in India. However, for India to gain the global leadership in this domain, we need to create an ecosystem of operators, vendors and regulators who work in tandem to ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Managing Iran’s nuke mission
One of the priority foreign policy challenges that the new Obama administration will have to tackle is the problem of Iran’s determined pursuit of nuclear capability that will give it a viable nuclear weapons ...

POLITICS: Price of being historic first
Being a historic first entails both enjoyment of heady rewards and payment of a heavy price. The 44th President of the US, Mr Barack Obama, who was rather messily sworn in on January 20, being the first African-American to reach the dizzying ...

ENVIRONMENT: Climate change: A time to introspect
The recent round of inter-governmental talks held in the Polish city of Poznan (December 1-12, 2008) to forge consensus on a post-Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gases (GHGs) reduction ended on a subdued note. The result was not ...

EDITORIAL: Pledge for transparency
In its first policy move after the Satyam scandal broke, the stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has zeroed in on the practice of promoters pledging shares in their publicly listed companies to raise ...

LETTERS: NBFCs’ woes
I fully agree with the views expressed in the article ‘NBFCs’ tale of woes’ (Business Line, January 20). Today, NBFCs are playing a vital role, especially in the area of infrastructural development ...

LETTERS: Whither whistleblowers?
While the Satyam accounts were being cooked on high burner for well over six years, why had there not been a single whistleblower either from inside the company or from ...


Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrashekhar S Murlidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranabir Ray Choudhury Rasheeda Bhagat P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh S Venkitaramanan




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