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ECONOMY: US recession: Prolonged and painful?
It is official now. The US is in severe recession. It is already bad, and may get worse in 2009. Does it mean that the Great Depression of 1930s is revisiting us or is it just another version of the recessions of 1973 and early 1980s? What is ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: He Made off with their money
From Spanish bank, Santander, to film-maker, Steven Spielberg, institutions and individuals are shamefacedly acknowledging being part of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme in which hedge funds worldwide have lost another $50 billion. The ...

EDITORIAL: GM crops and their opponents
A statement made by the Union Health Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, at a farmers’ meeting in Tamil Nadu earlier this month that he would oppose any move to introduce genetically modified (GM) food or seeds has become controversial and ...

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: Green energy needs more push
India’s energy shortage could seriously jeopardise and sour the country’s phenomenal growth story if the tempo of activity on the energy front is not accelerated forthwith.The crash in oil prices from $140 a barrel to a low of ...

TERRORISM: Russell’s Paradox and the ISI
Pakistan’s former ISI chief, and now Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, made some loudly belligerent noises on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, immediately responded by saying war was not an ...

EDUCATION: MBAs, MBAs everywhere!
Almost everyone I meet these days professes to be an MBA. Most of those I have talked to have taken their MBA degrees by availing themselves of the distance education facility that is now commonplace in both conventional and open universities. ...

LETTERS: Off the hook
Mr A. R. Antulay has managed to keep his job. But in the process the Congress party and its leaders have lost credibility. Keen on playing vote-bank politics they went on delaying any firm stand. The party leaders and the government ...

LETTERS: Satyam episode
One hopes the Government, in general, and the IT industry, in particular, understand the domino effect of the recent developments related to Satyam Computer Services Ltd. No doubt it is a face loss for the company, but the Government must ...


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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