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FOREIGN TRADE: Hindi Chini Buy-Buy
Global financial crisis and unresolved border dispute notwithstanding, the Sino-Indian economic engagement is only getting stronger. According to the latest statistics released by the Chinese authorities, bilateral trade in 2008 grew by over 34 ...

BUDGET: Interim Budget’s hidden text
The interim Budget presented by the acting Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has been roundly criticised for its lacklustre quality. Self-congratulatory in tone, the last budget of the UPA Government did not contain the much-hyped ...

TOURISM: The promise of medical tourism
The Tourism Ministry has little reason to gloat over the six per cent growth in tourist arrivals during 2008 in the face of the global economic meltdown and the dampening effects of the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26 ...

RAILWAY BUDGET: Railways: Dream run, new challenges
The interim Rail Budget, presented by the Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, the sixth in a row after the five regular budgets, highlights the turnaround story and a dramatic transformation of an ailing behemoth into a profit-making ...

EDITORIAL: Jobs at risk
There is nothing secret about the fact that, in keeping with the depressed state of the international market, Indian exports are expected to turn in poor figures for the current financial year. However, there appears to be some uncertainty about ...

MANAGEMENT: Leadership in recession
There is never a time when there is no discussion of the various aspects of leadership in the corpus of management literature. Open every journal devoted to governance or management, and you will find some reference to the variegated dimensions ...

LETTERS: Climate countdown
I completely agree with the views put forth in the article “Climate countdown to Copenhagen” (Business Line, February 18) that the developed countries have always been trying to point a finger at the ...

LETTERS: Insipid budget
Mr Pranab Mukherjee’s Interim Budget 2009-10 reminds one of the late eminent jurist Nani Palkhivala’s words: “Votes doubled, expectations multiplied, income stationary and result ...


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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