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ECONOMICS: Man happy, woman unhappy
There are two ways in which people who crave attention behave: they either say ‘no’ to everything, or they make startling announcements. Both methods work wonderfully well, especially in the make-believe world ...

EDITORIAL: Aiding growth
Employment data put out by the Government may not accurately indicate the overall job additions or attrition in this country; yet, they can offer a glimpse of the confidence levels that employers might have about market prospects in the short ...

AIRLINES: The Atlantic crash mystery
On May 31, 2009, Air France flight 447 departed from Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, for Paris. There were 212 passengers and 12 crew on board. The flight proceeded normally out of the Brazilian airspace over the Atlantic ...

INTEREST RATES: Will low interest rates mean reduced costs for firms?
The policy response to the global recession has been to ensure adequate liquidity in the system to encourage bank lending to productive activities. The Fed funds rates, the repo rates and other rates for lending as last resort are almost zero in ...

ECONOMY: No longer heaven-born
Ever since economic reforms have begun playing an important role in the development of the national economy, and the private sector has become progressively unfettered (as a part of the reforms process), the role of the bureaucrat in this ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: L’affaire Pinarayi Vijayan
Since these days, motives are attributed to even an expression of honest opinion, and depending on the nature of the opinion, the person expressing it is taken to be biased one way or the other, I feel constrained, at the start of the column, ...

LETTERS: Create the right environment
The RBI, on its part, did well to inject ample liquidity into the banking system and make banks comfortable to ...

LETTERS: Opposition to development
The Union government must intervene in case of the Mumbai SEZ project to protect the national interest. If a few anti-development activists can hold such an ambitious project to ransom, smaller entrepreneurs cannot be expected to ...


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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