The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 26, 2009

OPINION

EDITORIAL: Growth pangs
That the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC) has revised GDP forecasts for the current year downwards to 7.1 per cent from its July estimate of 7.7 per cent is hardly surprising. Economic indices have been none too encouraging ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: President Obama and India
During President Bush’s years in the White House, relations between New Delhi and Washington had touched a new high, the Indo-US nuclear deal being symptomatic of this phase of bilateral relations since 1947. With George Bush’s exit, ...

EVENTS: Connecting the dots
This week I will be in the Swiss ski resort of Davos to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, and I wholly expect it to be a unique, irreplaceable five days. There can be no more important time for the world’s leading ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: Mission on India@75
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is to be congratulated for launching a “Mission on India@75 — The Emerging Agenda” for putting together a comprehensive blueprint intended to facilitate “the acceleration ...

EVENTS: Beyond the fog
The Delhi fog spares no one, from the common man to members of the British House of Lords. Addressing the Partnership Summit, Lord Peter Mandelson, the British Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reforms, said that he ...

LETTERS: Changing stance
The article “Milliband: UK’s unguided missile” (Business Line, January 22) brought out the author’s clear and straightforward opinion on the subject. Lately, the UK has changed its policy on Tibet ...

LETTERS: Independent directors
Apropos your editorial “The flight of directors” (Business Line, January 24), notwithstanding the legal position that the law does not distinguish between independent directors and other stake-holder ...

LETTERS: Unique IDs
It was interesting to read “3G: Unique IDs for a billion-plus Indians” (Business Line, January 9). I fully endorse the need for a unique ID for each Indian. All citizens in China have an identity card which has ...

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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