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S VENKITARAMANAN: GM — a creative destruction
One of the most remarkable events in recent business history has been the decision of General Motors Corporation USA to file bankruptcy proceedings — a decision forced on the company after it lost market share in the ongoing recession. ...

A RINGSIDE VIEW: Budget expectations to decide market moves this week
Running corrections may rule the market till the announcement. The equity market has been moving up since the middle of last month as if wishes were horses – a stable Government would usher in a quicker ...

OFFHAND: Misguided meddling
From the time the military operations undertaken by the Sri Lankan Government against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) reached its concluding stages, some of the countries of the European Union (EU), principally Britain, France ...

VISION 2020: Experiment with change
As I had mentioned in these columns earlier, according to the World Bank Institute, removal of disparity is the third of the three main features of good governance. Throughout history, disparities have been predominant in all nations. Only ...

WIDE CANVAS: President on ‘innovation’
A reading of the President’s Speech to the Houses of Parliament, inaugurating the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha, throws up one point of interest that has Constitutional ramifications, but can perhaps be accorded less importance in ...

AMERICAN PERISCOPE: GM whirlpool sucks in the government
Hearing Mr Barack Obama’s televised statement last Monday about GM’s bankruptcy filing made me happy. Finally, I thought, here was a person with a clear vision for the company, and knew the hard decisions required to get there. He ...

RANDOM WALK: Outsourcing elderly care
One of the delicious ironies of Kerala’s strikingly superior developmental profile is the continuing and sustained greying of the State’s population. The average life expectancy in Kerala is now close to 74 years, compared to 68 ...

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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