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FOODGRAINS: Speculation and global trade in food crops
For much of the period between mid-2007 and mid-2008, as global prices in oil and other commodity markets zoomed to stratospheric levels, various eminent economists joined bankers, financial market consultants and even policymakers, in ...

AGRICULTURE: Wanted, Nano-like solutions for Indian farming!
It is election time once again and various political parties are doing their calculations on how the biggest group of voters — those engaged in agriculture in some form or the other — will vote. The UPA government did its bit for ...

EMPLOYMENT: Protect jobs to save the economy
The discourse on slowdown has failed to come to grips with the employment situation in Indian manufacturing. A recent study of the Union Labour Ministry has overlooked the possibility of job losses in a number of sectors. While the study ...

EDITORIAL: Tweaking MSP
If ever proof was needed of the inefficient management of the food situation by the Government, the current anomalous behaviour of foodgrains prices provides it. Excessive foodgrain stocks with Government agencies and ongoing harvest of a large ...

LETTERS: Declaration of assets
The declaration of assets/wealth at the time of filing nomination by most politicians shows a manifold increase wealth within a short ...

LETTERS: Disabled-friendly airports
“Flying fair every step of the way” (Business Line, April 6) was a very good piece of reporting on the excellent action taken by the DGCA. I suggest that the DGCA set up a working group that can examine all the ...

LETTERS: Dollar substitute
“China proposes to dethrone the dollar” (Business Line, April 6) by calling for a new “super sovereign reserve currency”. China, India and Japan have invested in US Treasury bills, though China 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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Markets (April 06)
Nifty (at close)3,256.60 (+45.55)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)50.04/05
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs2,371
Gold (a gram) Rs1,422
Silver (a kg) Rs22,615


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