The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 20, 2009

OPINION

TERRORISM: Taliban and Pakistani double-speak
One has to be excused if one’s first and spontaneous reaction was “just desserts” to the news of a rare video being released on Sunday by the Taliban, owning responsibility for past suicide missions in Pakistan, and calling ...

POLITICS: Tasks ahead for the new President
The task before Barack Obama will be to get back the US of yore.. Barack Obama has delivered the US from Mr George Bush. But the more important job for the new President will be loosening the stranglehold of the Conservatives on the economic ...

POLITICS: At the end of Bush’s presidency
No American president has had a higher disapproval rating than Mr George Bush.. This is primarily the result of the poor state of the American economy. The economy is in deep trouble and it does not matter to the ordinary citizen whether it is ...

NBFCS: NBFCs’ tale of woes
The intention to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) under India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IFCL) and arming the SPV with a corpus of Rs 25,000 crore to be used to fund non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) makes two basic ...

EDITORIAL: Hope for audacity
Indians across the economic spectrum will watch Mr Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America today with more than vicarious thrill. America is not just getting its first African-American ...

LETTERS: Traffic discipline
This is in response to the article “Traffic stress: Companies should take the lead” (Business Line, ...

LETTERS: Making money from poverty
This is with reference to “Profiting from poverty” (Business Line, January 19). The debate is not whether India’s poverty should be showcased or not. It is time for to take action to alleviate poverty. The conditions of ...

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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