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POLITICS: Dealing with failed states
The link between failed state situations and humanitarian catastrophes is only too well known to the public. In our vicinity, we have one potential failed state with nuclear weapons — a daunting prospect. A failed state is one that ...

CREDIT CARDS & DEBIT CARDS: Any Teller Machine
Today is a red letter day for Indian banking. Bank customers will now have the freedom to use their ATM/debit cards to draw money or check their balances through any ATM in the country, free of ...

ECONOMY: G-20 should talk reform
The initial signs are that tomorrow’s meeting in London of the leaders of the G-20 countries is heading towards failure, in the sense that nothing substantive will be done for the long-term overhaul of the world’s financial set-up ...

POLITICS: Varun Gandhi and NSA
The decision of the Government of Uttar Pradesh to invoke the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, against Mr Varun Gandhi has become the subject matter of nation-wide debate giving rise to a spate of support and criticism almost in an equal ...

EDITORIAL: Stress test
Four years after the Asian currency crisis of 1997, India participated in an IMF/World Bank financial assessment programme whose stress tests were formalised in 2005 for member countries. The following year, India voluntarily began a joint ...

ECONOMICS: All that glitters is not gold
In response to this column last week a reader wrote in to ask, if modern economics was as useless as was made out, why was it in such great demand the world over? The question came from a teacher of economics at the college level. This ...

LETTERS: Coherent synergy
The article “End of dollar’s hegemony”, (Business Line, March 31) traces the rise of the dollar and concludes by discussing its possible ...

LETTERS: Congress aspirant
“The making of a Congressman” (Business Line, March 31) was a very interesting interview with Shashi Tharoor. A diplomat, writer and businessman, Mr Tharoor’s new role as Congress candidate ...


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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