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EDITORIAL: Bitter truth
If the first two days of the new Government is any indication, it is likely we will have ‘more of the same’ that we had in the last five years — political expediency forcing policy changes that in turn translate into business ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: India faces new Asian challenges
Non-proliferation ‘ayatollahs’ in the US, close to the Democratic Party establishment, have recently been publishing “revelations” of Pakistan constructing two new plutonium reactors at its nuclear nerve centre, Khushab. ...

RAILWAYS: Mamata’s track record
Breaking away from the Congress, forming her own Trinamool Congress, becoming a part of the Vajpayee-led government in 1999 as the Minister for Railways, and now coming back with the same portfolio, this time with the UPA, Ms Mamata Banerjee ...

ACCOUNTANCY: The Swiss Challenge System
The Swiss Challenge System (SCS), briefly, is about proposals taken to government and government authorities by private parties, unsolicited. The operative word is unsolicited. Why should they do so? To be sure, they may not be entirely driven ...

INTERVIEW: Does Bharti-MTN deal signal a recovery?
The first developing-nation foray into the ‘Big 5’ of the telecom world encompassing two fast-growing emerging wireless markets, India and Africa; consolidated post-deal financials, north of 200 million subscribers and revenues of ...

LETTERS: Mobiles on flights
Of late, some airlines have started allowing the use of mobile phones while airborne, after installing devices that would prevent the mobile radio waves from interfering with the cockpit’s communication channels, and thus ...

LETTERS: Clean governance?
It is evident that the media has been far too quick to pronounce the Congress leaders ‘blackmail-proof’. Judging by the recent events culminating in its capitulation to the DMK, the Congress has proved either unwilling or ...

BOOKS: Capable individuals are often ineffective as a group
A big barrier to improvement can be the failure to review one’s own performance. And this is true, as well, with governance groups at the helm of affairs of organisations. Often in the name of politeness, accurate descriptions of reality ...


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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