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BUDGET: Budget 2009: Short on answers
The conventional Budget continues the deplorable practice of expanding existing handouts and creating new ones and throwing money at problems, without providing any convincing explanation of their rationale and any hard-headed social ...

ECONOMY: Inflation, rising rates and financial repression
The Union Budget for 2009-10, has admittedly been formulated at a very difficult time when the global economy is in the throes of a crisis and the GDP growth rate has also slowed down. The Budget has substantially increased outlays on the ...

EDITORIAL: Deficits and disinvestment
If there is one lesson for the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, from the reaction to his Budget speech, it is that he must learn to speak less elliptically about key economic concerns. Coming on the heels of the Economic Survey that ...

WTO: Gains from the current Doha offers
The WTO General Council on May 26 agreed to hold the Seventh Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference from November 30 to December 2 in Geneva, Switzerland. This will be the fourth in the series of official high-level meetings that the ...

TERRORISM: Home Ministry should set the pace
Every now and then media carry news items that the Home Ministry has drawn the attention of State governments to some imminent threat to security, especially relatable to terrorist and subversive acts by jihadis, naxalites or Maoists, directing ...

LETTERS: Bank strike call
It is quite unfortunate that the banking Industry is facing another strike-call from its employees on August 6 and 7. The Central Government was liberal in giving its employees a pay hike under the Sixth Pay Commission just before the ...

LETTERS: Grand promises
This has reference to the article “Governance by hand-waving” (Business Line, July 16). This was indeed a true reflection of the ground ...


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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