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Monday, February 16, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, February 16, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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COLUMNS A RINGSIDE VIEW: Range-bound movement seen for benchmarks Tinkering with policies here and there may not help alleviate problems. There has been a build up last week expecting a positive signal from the vote on account. But in a market dominated by traders, several players are now expecting that after ... S VENKITARAMANAN: 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 ... RANDOM WALK: Gender-sensitive budgeting Last week the Kerala Government released its “Women’s Policy”, which banks on the concept of "gender budgeting" to ensure that some allotments from the State’s annual budget and fiscal resources are set apart ... CHAT: Who will bail out the government? On the eve of the interim budget, Divya (a journalist), Jogin (a student), Mack (an American expat working in India) and Bidyut (an economics professor) get together for coffee. The conversation drifts towards ... ADR WATCH: Infosys tumbles 9%; telecom counters end firm US stocks fell despite the bailout package announced by the Obama administration. The S&P 500 crashed 4.8 per cent, the most for a week in three months, to 826.84 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 5.2 per cent, to 7,850.41. ... VISION 2020: 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 ... WIDE CANVAS: 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 ... SAY CHEEK: Snake-oil debt in cardboard boxes with impressive labels The US Congress has given its nod to the $787-billion stimulus package, which Barack Obama sees as a ‘major milestone’ in rescuing the country from the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath. If, like the majority, you have difficulty ... COMMODITY COMMENTARY: Soyabean processors asking for more export concessions At a time when the country is seriously short of vegetable proteins to meet the health needs of burgeoning human and cattle population, there are attempts to extract concessions from the government to promote export of ... AMERICAN PERISCOPE: 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 ... 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 Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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