The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 16, 2009

OPINION

ECONOMY: Signs of a global recovery
Finance Ministers of the G8, meeting at Lecce in Italy during the latter part of week ending June 14, were cautiously optimistic. The final communiqué noted that in the aftermath of efforts at financial stabilisation and fiscal ...

EDITORIAL: Sops for lending
As Budget time approaches, various stakeholders, hurt by economic cycles, urge tax concessions of one kind or another. Since September, when the current crisis first hit Indian shores, pleas for such tax relief have been aired by exporters ...

POLITICS: Change still eludes Iran
For me, the predominant image from the hotly contested presidential election in Iran is that of women, bundled in black cloaks, queuing up to cast their votes. One picture of female voters forming a circular queue, all of them dressed in black ...

LETTERS: Card sharp
This refers to the article “Earn as you spend via card” (Business Line, June 14) about earning and managing credit card ...

LETTERS: Maharashtra industry
The Maharashtra government’s claim that the State is still numero uno in industrial activity is almost farcical, as the people can see for themselves that not a single big industrial project has come up in many years ...

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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