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COLUMNS
ACCOUNT SPEAK:
‘Virtualisation of storage, the ultimate step to maximise ROI’
Three sextillion, 892 quintillion, 179 quadrillion, 868 trillion, 480 billion, 350 million. That’s the number of new digital information bits created in 2008, says John Gantz, Chief Research Officer for IDC. “Contrary to popular ...
RASHEEDA BHAGAT:
Memories from a violent ethnic conflict
As the news of the end of LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran sank in, one’s mind went back to several visits made to the beautiful island-nation of Sri Lanka over the last 12 years or so. And the number of times the government and people of Sri ...
BOOKS OF ACCOUNT:
Valuation of water
A common piece of advice that Jayanta Bandyopadhyay offers to those in the Cauvery basin and Colorado is that they can be better off by growing low water-consuming crops. He argues that regions under chronic water scarcity, such as the ...
CONTRA ENTRY:
Putting Swiss money to use
There is a view that even if the Indian government succeeds in retrieving the money stashed away in Switzerland, it would serve very little purpose because it would flood the economy with rupees, causing hyper-inflation. This argument is of a ...
T.C.A. SRINIVASA-RAGHAVAN:
Dr Singh’s test of strength
When everyone is gushing over the bride’s finery, it is perhaps in poor taste to point out that she has a squint. But what applies to such social occasions need not apply to politics. Indeed, for obvious reasons, it must not. So, before ...
MICROSCOPE:
Mundra Port: Robust cargo volumes aid profit growth
BL Research Bureau Growth in cargo volumes and a healthy cargo mix suggest that the marginal decline in Mundra Port and SEZ’s revenues for the quarter ended March 2009 (compared to a year-ago number) may not be much cause ...
ON THE HEDGE:
Open positions jump for RCom, Unitech, RNRL
Chennai, May 20 Turnover dipped to Rs 70,570.87 crore against Tuesday’s Rs 1.05 lakh crore. The Nifty May future closed at 4290.05 against the spot close of 4270.3 but saw a sharp drop of 11.49 lakh shares in open ...
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
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