The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, March 24, 2009

OPINION

FOREIGN TRADE: Balance of payments portents
The rupee’s recent fall, which has taken the currency’s value to more than Rs 50 to the US dollar, is one of the more visible ways in which the global crisis has affected India. Underlying that fall are developments on ...

SPORTS: And now cricket gets ‘political’
The unthinkable has happened. The organisers of the India Premier League matches on Sunday decided to shift the IPL’s second edition out of India. But nothing terrible happened. The sun still rose on Monday! And the world did not come to ...

ENVIRONMENT: In search of a successor to Kyoto
All eyes are now on evolving a workable and effective ‘climate change’ treaty in Copenhagen in December 2009, as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. It was expected that climate talks in Poznan (Poland) ...

EDITORIAL: IPL runs out
The Indian Premier League (IPL) fiasco — and it has been no less than that — will live on in Indian memories for a long time to come. The fact that what is primarily an Indian event will be now be played outside India is enough to ...

LETTERS: NSC vs deposits
This is with reference to the timely article on the above subject in Business Line of March 22, which make it clear that NSC is, no doubt, preferred over the five-year banks’ tax-saving deposit by the middle-class ...

LETTERS: Financial reality
This is with reference to your editorial “Fluctuating standards” (Business Line, March 19). The statement that “the first step to an effective response to a challenging business environment is for ...

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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