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POLITICS: Antulay’s shenanigans
A needless controversy has now been triggered by the mindless comments of the Union Minority Affairs Minister, Mr A. R. Antulay, who chose to express his anguish over the untimely death of the Maharasthra Anti Terror Squad chief, Hemant Karkare, ...

INTERVIEW: Credit flow to the MSE sector needs to be scaled up
Macro figures mask micro infirmities. On the face of it, the flow of institutional credit to MSEs (micro and small enterprises) is fine, having grown 32 per cent in 2007-08 to touch Rs 1.48 lakh crore as at March 31, ...

TEA: The Makaibari legend
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Doing things the right way
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EDITORIAL: One for the image
Compulsions of coalition arithmetic had stayed the UPA Government’s hand from any legislative reform in the insurance sector with the Left parties having long opposed any attempt at liberalisation of ownership norms. However, the ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Needed better, not more, regulation
Adam Smith’s famous discussion of the organisation of production in a pin factory articulated the advantages of division of labour and the economic gains from large-scale production. But Smith expressed considerable scepticism about ...

LETTERS: Reverse Repo Rate
Banks prefer parking funds in the RBI to lending them. It is just possible that there is not enough demand for credit given the gloomy economic environment. Entrepreneurs will not borrow just because money is ...

LETTERS: Corporate governance
Recently, corporate governance has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the ...


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




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