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ECONOMY: 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 ...

EDITORIAL: Supporting private investment
The second-term UPA Government inches closer to its first major policy announcement in a scenario that has changed considerably from the fag end of its first term. Nowhere is this more evident than in the wave of optimism that is sweeping across ...

PEOPLE: 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 ...

WTO: 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 ...

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: 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 ...

SECURITY: 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 ...

LETTERS: Education reforms
Undoubtedly, India’s education system needs reforms. Any step to improveme the system for the betterment of the students is welcome. Is the abolition of Class X examinations meant only to relieve the students from the stress and burden ...

LETTERS: Inflation rates
This refers to the report on wholesale price index-based inflation falling to less than 2 compared to 11.8 a year ago (Business Line, June 26). On account of this, there is strident demand from business to reduce ...


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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Markets (June 26)
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US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.10/11
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