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COLUMNS S VENKITARAMANAN: The negative side of inflation The Reserve Bank of India has announced that the wholesale price index (WPI) showed a negative rate of increase — or decrease — during the week ended June 6. The rate settled at around -1.61 per cent compared to the relatively high ... A RINGSIDE VIEW: Traders sceptical of taking part in pre-Budget rally Volatility could be high due to reluctance to take more risks. Last week’s slight rain in Mumbai and Kolkata may have kept pessimism at bay, but very few market players are overly bullish about a pre-Budget rally this week. The ... ADR WATCH: MTNL star performer Dr. Reddy’s Lab registers 52-week high. US stocks continued to fall for the second week in a row, after the World Bank cautioned that the recession would be deeper than previously forecast. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3 per cent to 918.90 ... OFFHAND: Nilekani's problematic debut I am sure this column will run afoul of all those who are lustily cheering the appointment of Mr Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UDAI), with (as stressed by every published report ) the rank ... WIDE CANVAS: A false step on Doha In spite of his most strenuous efforts to “set the record straight”, the new Commerce Minister, Mr Anand Sharma, will have to be reconciled to the fact that he spoke too soon and too much in delineating the policy of the new ... EUROSCAPE: Sun power, the new oil Last weekend, my wife and I travelled the 8 degree longitude and experienced a wide variety of climate zones along the way, in a single day. Yes, this was a preview. We were invited to a kilometre-long trip around the world at the Klimahaus ... IMPRESSIONS: Arms and appointments Never before has Indian Ordnance Factories, which were bestowed the sobriquet “the fourth arm of Defence” after the Bangladesh war by Indira Gandhi, been rocked by such a huge corruption scandal. Not that they were free from ... 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 Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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