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FINANCIAL POLICY: Fiscal stimulus package: Welcome moves but room for more
The Government of India has taken action in terms of additional expenditure, tax cuts and coordinated steps by the RBI to relax credit conditions to important sectors. Announcing these decisions, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, ...

ECONOMY: Can you pass some power, please?
Does anyone remember the G-20 meet in November? Unlikely, because it was a forgettable summit — all good intention but little substance. Indeed, before anything could be acted upon, the mighty Citi Group was looking for Santa Claus and ...

POLITICS: Shadow on Obama’s inauguration
The ‘crime spree’, as the Federal investigators called it, indulged in by the Governor of Illinois, Mr Rod Blagojevich, threatens to take the sheen out of the inauguration gala for the President-elect, Mr Barack Obama’s ...

OUTSOURCING: Caught in cross-talk
The remark last week by Mr Samir Chopra, a former President of the Business Process Industry Association of India (BPIAI) — that BPO companies may see 2.5 lakh job losses by the first quarter of 2009 — has left the BPO industry red ...

EDITORIAL: Output of worry
When the quick estimates of industrial production for August were released, Mr P. Chidambaram, then Finance Minister, doubted the extent of the slippage. From 7.4 per cent the previous month, industrial output growth had shrunk to just 1.3 per ...

WTO: Respite for the WTO
Mr Pascal Lamy’s statement made at the end of last week that a WTO Ministerial meeting this month was now highly unlikely should be seen as a respite for the Geneva-based organisation from the assaults it has been facing in recent times ...

SECURITY: Changing facets of policing
Two important events caught my attention last week to conclude that two countries in new enlarged Europe do have trigger-happy policemen and unfair, bigoted justice system. First, the jury at an inquest into the shooting by London police, ...

LETTERS: Insipid sugar
With reference to the editorial “Bitter truths on sugar” (Business Line, December 12) is truly a forewarning and signal of an increasing trend seen recently in sugar prices. Domestic demand and supply ...

LETTERS: Improving security infrastructure
India is still lagging behind other countries in security infrastructure. The dismal state of affairs in the country’s security system is the root cause of all aspects of terror attacks. Some time back, the Defence Minister, Mr A. ...


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