The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 08, 2009

OPINION

POLITICS: Common platform on freebies
With the announcement of a number of giveaways and concessions, such as rice at Re 1 per kilo, free colour TV, free gas connections, plots of land, saris, dhotis, shoes, bicycles and the like, the DMK in Tamil Nadu has set a trend which has ...

POLITICS: Killing the spirit of enterprise
For the first time, a prospective candidate who had not even filed his nomination papers has been found guilty of breach of model code of conduct for the elections. It would appear that the BJP’s candidate from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi, at ...

POWER: Unbundling fuel for nuclear power
The arrival of 60 tonnes of uranium ore at the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) on March 31, 2009 from France marks the beginning of long-term supply of imported fuel to the ambitious nuclear power programme of the Department of Atomic Energy ...

POLITICS: Pakistan’s future
David Kilcullen’s prognosis that the state of Pakistan could break up in six months’ time may be a trifle peremptory, but there is no mistaking the fact that the trend is there for everyone to see, and that it is only a matter of ...

EDITORIAL: Invisible support
India’s balance of payments picture in the three months to December 2008 may appear dismal but some clues to resilience in its external position are discernible in a recent study by the RBI of non-merchandise exports between 2002 and ...

CORPORATE: Opportunity-risk imbalance: Implications for Corporate India
Business is a fine balance between opportunity and risk. In an ideal world the entrepreneur identifies a new opportunity, a product, a process or a service that would increase user satisfaction. Successful businesses identify opportunities ...

LETTERS: Farming solutions
This has reference to the article “Wanted, Nano-like solutions for Indian farming” (Business Line, April ...

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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