The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 16, 2009

OPINION

BUDGET: Budget should focus on fertiliser issue
The Budget season has come on without any of the insignias of the ritual — the industry/economists/labour consultations, which are more rites of passage than substance. However, lobbying seems to have started in right ...

SECURITY: US practice worthy of emulation
The confirmation by the US Senate of Mr Leon Panetta, 70-year old former eight-term Congressperson and former Chief of Staff of President Bill Clinton, as the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has significance far beyond the ...

EDITORIAL: Reviving America
With the United States in the grip of the worst recession in 70 years and six lakh jobs lost in December alone, one would have thought that American legislators would have unanimously agreed to President Barack Obama’s $937 billion package ...

POLITICS: A vote for electoral reforms
Now that the general elections are drawing near, there is increasing interest in preventing criminals from getting elected. There are several civil interest groups active in this area and, of these, ADR (Association for Democratic Reforms) and ...

RAILWAY BUDGET: Making the voter happy
If the interim Railway Budget presented by Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav last Friday is any indication, it is more than likely that the similar “interim” step which the Government will take on Monday with regard to the general finances of ...

LETTERS: Rail budget
While new trains have been announced from all major cities, Chennai seems to have been ignored in the Interim Railway Budget of ...

LETTERS: Good governance
Once again our country is going to face elections with the hope of having good governance. There is a feeling that despite over six decades of Independence, the Indian elite has not really made any serious efforts to eliminate ...

EVENTS: Old ideas are up for new challenges
Around the same time every year in January that the World Economic Forum meets in Davos, Switzerland, the World Social Forum meets in Brazil. While the former invites the blue suits of the world to discuss how to tie everything neatly together ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: GMR’s disaster area
The time has come, it would seem, for another scolding to be given to GMR by Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The last time he had done so, because he was appalled by conditions at Delhi airport, GMR had sprung to attention. Since then, it seems to ...

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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