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ECONOMY: Asian face of the global recession
Delegates to the World Economic Forum at Davos this year came despondent and left in despair. Both the discussions and the new evidence released at and during the Forum indicated that the global crisis was not just bad, but worse than ...

POWER: Unleashing India’s nuclear potential
The signing of the India specific safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the MoUs concluded between Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and Areva of France on uranium supply, and the construction ...

ENVIRONMENT: Redefining coastal engagement
India’s coastline is one of the most bio-diverse and unique ecosystems in the world. Rocky promontories, sand dunes, coral reefs, rich mangrove tracts, wide beaches teeming with myriad life forms. It is also one of the most densely ...

COTTON: Crisis in cotton
India is now a major power in the world of cotton. With an estimated production of 5.46 million tonnes in the current season (2008-09), the country is the second largest producer of raw cotton, next only to China (about 8 million ...

EDITORIAL: Optimistic numbers
The advance estimate by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) places GDP growth for the current year a notch above the 7 per cent expansion that the Prime Minster’s Economic Advisory Council had forecast. At 7.1 per cent, the ...

LETTERS: Narrow banking
The article “Narrow banks: An idea whose time has come” (Business Line, February 4) was interesting. The concept of a “narrow bank”, on a first read, sounds appealing. With full deposit protection ...

LETTERS: Pledge of shares
I thought of pointing out one small issue with regard to the stories that are appearing on pledge of shares. Traditionally Indian banks have been asking for both personal guarantees as well as pledge of shares for any loans including ...


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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Markets (Feb 09)
Nifty (at close)2,919.90(+76.80)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.58/59
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