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POLITICS: Coverage of Orissa, Karnataka trouble: Balanced approach wanting
It is a hallowed principle of jurisprudence that justice should be even-handed, and both sides to a dispute must be given a full hearing before conclusions are drawn. The media coverage of the disturbances in both Orissa and Karnataka and the ...

INVESTMENT BANKING: Investment banks…
…and then, there were none

The last nail on the coffin of investment banks, as we now know them, was driven when the US Federal Reserve (Fed) approved the applications of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to change their status into bank holding companies. Rather, they ...

ECONOMY: The primacy of manufacturing
An unintended fallout of the worst Wall Street crisis since the Great Depression that is receiving increasing attention is the impact of the collapse of iconic institutions and the Paulson-Bernanke bailout plan on two economic principles that ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Is the ‘rescue plan’ the best there is?
During financial crises such as those in 1987, 1994, 1998 or the dotcom bubble in 2001, the losses and exposures of financial institutions (especially in the US) got increasingly larger. However, sustained intervention by the Federal Reserve ...

EDITORIAL: Food safety
New Delhi should be complimented for the swift response to the threat of unsafe foods entering the country. The ban on import of poultry, meat and meat products and several other livestock products from countries affected by the dreaded bird flu ...

POWER: Life after nuclear deal
The agreement between the US and India paving the way for ‘full (?) civilian nuclear co-operation’ is now a reality. After Independence, no other matter of public policy bearing on relations between two countries, especially one ...

LETTERS: Pre ’96 pensioners
There are more anomalies in the pension computations than meets the eye. Obviously, most of the pensioners’ concerns are far too complicated for the ordinary mortals in the Ministry ...

LETTERS: Bank strike
This has reference to the letter “Economic Terrorism” (Business Line, October 1), that highlighted the irresponsible way in which bank employees in India are going on ...






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