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INTEREST RATES: Govt savings instruments: Cutting interest rates not bankable
Commercial banks have requested the government to lower interest rates under the National Savings Scheme (NSS) to facilitate reductions in deposit and lending rates. The argument is that a better return on savings in the former than from the ...

EDITORIAL: Price conscious
It is that time of the year when farmers across the country start planting major crops (paddy, jowar, bajra, maize, groundnut, soyabean and cotton) for the kharif season, due for harvest about four months from now. It is also the time for ...

HORTICULTURE/FRUITS & VEGETABLES: Nurture investment in horticulture
The recently concluded international horticulture expo and conference at New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan threw up some interesting thoughts on the current status and future growth of the sector. As is well known, India is the world’ s ...

SECURITY: Putting an end to hate attacks
Although we may be loath to admit it, and pretend to the contrary, there is a little of intolerance in us against what we consider foreign to our way of life. Within the memory of old timers, ferocious disputes, including sometimes ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Lay off the lay-off idea
Recession has made it imperative for companies to make their workforce leaner. But are layoffs the only way to increase workforce efficiency and do they really pay off? According to Mr Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL, an inclusive strategy pays off ...

LETTERS: Positive sentiment
Since last October, the RBI has cut key policy rates over 400 basis points to give the much-required impetus to the economy. Taking cue from this move, the PSBs have announced rate cuts ahead of the Budget to boost credit demand that will ...

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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