The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 05, 2009

OPINION

FINANCIAL MARKETS: The international transmission of fragility
The April 2009 edition of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report is categorical. Global financial stability has deteriorated further since its last assessments in October and January, with conditions worsening more in emerging markets ...

POLITICS: Touch and go… either way
Just when everybody was expecting the equity market to be jittery and nervous in the last two weeks leading to the final outcome of the Indian Lok Sabha elections, and stockbrokers were advising their clients to sit on cash in hand and ...

CARS: A date with Nano at the shopping mall
One Wednesday I bumped into the Nano. It was the last thing I expected to see amidst clothes and like at the Tata-owned Westside store. But there it was, good looking, enjoying attention; fitting the image of a consumer durable rather ...

EDITORIAL: Scripting a revival
Hope springs eternal in the human breast and never more so than when troubles pile up alarmingly. For India, the three months to December 2008 were distressing as almost every indicator reflected a downturn in varying degrees. Yet, there have ...

LETTERS: Structuring rates
One of the commendable points in the Reserve Bank of India’s recent monetary policy is its focus on the benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) and the calculation of interest rates on savings accounts. Interpretation of PLR at the ...

LETTERS: Corporal punishment
“Corporal punishment of children must end” (Business Line, May 4) was an assertive article demanding a halt to violence against children. That there was a legislation in force for decades even in Independent ...

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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