The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 06, 2009

OPINION

EDITORIAL: Another push
That the Reserve Bank of India would step in with its rescue act was beyond doubt given the sufficient hints from New Delhi policymakers. Expectedly, the central bank has further reduced its key repo and reverse repo rates by half a percentage ...

AIRLINES: An unfair tax on fliers
Is it fair to ask passengers to pay in advance for development of airports? This is what Delhi airport is doing, and Mumbai too will follow suit, charging departing passengers an airport development fee (ADF) from April ...

ECONOMY: Grappling with ‘feel-bad’ factor
Governments have three possible roles in an economy — strengthening, decorating and healing/scavenging. The first role could be played either by directly participating in the economy as an entrepreneur in a major way as Communist Russia ...

ECONOMY: Is America looking inward?
From time to time in its history, the US had displayed a distinct isolationist streak. Beginning from the Monroe doctrine and the throwing out of President Wilson’s proposal for the League of Nations to the refusal of the US to sign ...

LETTERS: Conformance and performance
The article “Balancing conformance and performance” (Business Line, March 5) is timely, especially in the context of the Satyam ...

LETTERS: Recruitment picture
The downturn is forcing the media fraternity to break the hype about IIM placements, that it had created in earlier ...

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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