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INSIGHT: Bank chiefs in quest of solutions
The RBI’s credit policy has come and gone, leaving bankers and borrowers none the wiser on matters of importance. Bankers are left to deal with issues of governance and credit disbursements. In this context, my attention was drawn to ...

EVENTS: Ministerial pearls
Mr Santosh Bagrodia, Minister of State in Coal Ministry, recently called coal industry stakeholders for a meeting to understand (and maybe solve) their problems so that delays in country’s coal production could be ...

EDITORIAL: Dearer sugar
If you are forced to pay a high price for the sugar you consume daily, blame it on the Government. Poor commercial intelligence, policy flip-flop and the Government’s unwillingness to loosen its vice-like grip over the sector have all ...

POLITICS: Reform the poll process
Many strange things have been happening since 26/11. At first, came the revulsion against politicians of all hues. Next were the elections in Kashmir which indicated a general distrust with separatist politics of the State. Then, Mr Stalin, son ...

ECONOMY: The Fund’s grim message
If the US economy always sets the pace for the world to follow, it is now abundantly clear that the year ahead will perhaps be the worst in living memory as far global economic activity is concerned. For most people, this is no longer big ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Directors should reflect on their roles
Thanks to the Satyam fraud, the current state of corporate governance has taken all the beating it can get. ‘How could the directors let this happen?’ is a justifiable reaction, even if we are talking about acts of omission, and ...

LETTERS: Oh, to be a central banker
This refers to the article “Happy days are here again for the RBI”, which has hit upon the dilemma between the RBI and the ...

LETTERS: Cash and carry
This refers to the front page news “No fuel on credit for Kingfisher Airlines, only cash & carry” (Business Line, January 30). It is time for oil companies to rigidly enforce a ceiling on credit sale ...


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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