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ECONOMY: Will Team Manmohan mean business?
The Parliament session started with an ambitious programme of action by the Manmohan Singh Government. The President’s address to Parliament incorporated the broad lines of action which the Government proposes. One has to wait for ...

EDITORIAL: Truant monsoon
Today is June 15 and there is as yet no sign of a genuine break of the southwest monsoon which generally reaches the Kerala coast by June 1 and steadily progresses northwards. The June 10 advisory from India Meteorological Department ominously ...

ECONOMICS: Protectionism no panacea
The ongoing global financial crisis is, in a sense, unprecedented. This meltdown was brought about by the sheer profligacy of several unscrupulous persons in key positions in financial institutions. Earlier financial crises were, however, the ...

EVENTS: Pre-emptive denial
Journalists are used to press conferences getting delayed. But the proposed press conference by GAIL, to announce its Q4 and full-year results on Friday, was something else. While reporters started walking in at the designated time of 4.30 ...

PEOPLE: Like father, like daughter
The passing of Lakshmi Krishnamurti on June 12 at Chennai snaps the last remaining link with the era of valiant heroes of India’s freedom struggle. There are, of course, persons in their eighties to whom the names of the stalwarts of that ...

ECONOMY: An island of growth
If one goes by what the Prime Minister told the Lok Sabha the other day, the signs of a recovery within the national economy are strong, and may lead to a GDP growth rate of between 8 and 9 per cent in 2010-2011 compared to an expected 7 per ...

ECONOMY: Germany curiously unmoved by economic nosedive
In the Swabian town of Goeppingen, in Germany’s southwest, a family-owned firm called Maerklin started in 1859 as a small factory producing dollhouse kitchens. In 1891 it started to build model trains, and in 1935 introduced its ...

POWER: A Cabinet Committee on energy?
Sushil Kumar Shinde, Bharathsinh Solanki, Dr Farooq Abdullah, Murli Deora, Jitin Prasada, Shri Prakash Jaiswal, and Vincent Pala. What is common between these newly sworn in ministers of the new UPA government? They along with the Prime ...

LETTERS: Nurture farm sector
The article ‘Nurture investment in horticulture’ (Business Line, June 12) raised important points. The farm-to-fork concept that is yet to take root in India. The route is fragmented, much of it dominated ...


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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