COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Learning from mistakes
The series of miscalculations that had plunged West Bengal into a crisis in recent months over the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata small car project and the aborted chemical hub at Nandigram were of ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Indian markets becoming `efficient'
To find the answer, one must revert to one of the great insights of modern finance - that markets are efficient. Index funds are, by definition, passive investments in stocks mirroring exactly the composition of a popular index such as the ...
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DOWN TO EARTH
Why are wheat farmers angry?
At a loss to know what the Government is doing, wheat farmers plan to boycott wheat mandis and demand Rs 1,000 a quintal or, in the alternative, want scrapped the ban on private trade and the futures markets.
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SAY CHEEK
Two people with one pulse
"Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring your winter-garment of repentance fling." A snatch that is from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, which is featured in 100 Great Poems of Love & Lust, compiled by Dannie Abse (More
SENSOR
Markets bounce back with more broad-based buying
The bulls put up a strong resistance act on Tuesday, to ensure that the markets closed on a positive note. The markets, however, did not come back with full optimism, as they remained jittery over the impact of RBI's interest rate hikes. The ...
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