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OPINION POLITICS: Thumbs-up for the discerning voter As in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, this time around too, the Congress leadership will be most surprised at the party’s impressive performance in the Assembly elections in five States. Winning decisively in Delhi and Mizoram and emerging ... EDITORIAL: Keeping Doha going The move by the WTO Director-General, Mr Pascal Lamy, to call a Ministerial meeting in the middle of this month cannot be aimed at wrapping up the extended negotiations on the Doha Round because there are still strong differences between ... TERRORISM: Jingoism will not improve matters “Indians are angry and hurt as never before”, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has been reported as saying, with reference to the horrifying happenings in Mumbai. The media, websites and blogs are resonating with war ... INVESTMENT BANKING: Reinventing the investment banker’s role Not so long ago, investment bankers were the object of envy and investment banking a most sought after profession. The salaries and bonuses that young investment bankers made, the deals they managed to pull off and their jet-setting lifestyles ... AIRLINES: Back in the red An abiding mystery of economics is why people invest in volatile businesses with very variable or even, in the long run, non-existent profits. Sports clubs are one example. Airlines, whose decadal rate of return has never exceeded 1.5 per cent, ... RAILWAYS: Terror on trains With the first ever serial blasts on trains in March 14, 2004 targeting four of Madrid’s commuter trains, killing 191 and injuring over 1,800, the terrorists had discovered the newsworthiness and the ease with which mass rail transport ... LETTERS: Debt market for private sector This has reference to the news item that the RBI has sent a clear signal to banks to advance more credit to productive sectors by reducing its key repo and reverse repo rates to 6.5 per cent and 5 per cent respectively ... Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrasekhar S Muralidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranbir Ray Choudhury P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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