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EDITORIAL: Cause for optimism?
At first glance, the Central Statistical Organisation’s estimates of GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal prompt a welcome round of applause; at 6.1 per cent, the first three months have witnessed a better performance ...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Au revoir, Chandrayaan
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has rung down the curtains on its Rs 386-crore lunar orbiter mission after it irretrievably lost contact with the spacecraft, nearly 4 lakh km away, on August 29. While the general ...

WTO: Mini-Ministerial in New Delhi — Energising Doha trade talks
The New Delhi mini-Ministerial meet on September 3-4, 2009, meant to energise the Doha trade talks, is timely. The collapse of the talks at Geneva in July 2008 was, at least in part, due to the fact that the Ministers representing the ...

INTERVIEW: Govt should hold stakeholder meets after Delhi talks: ICRIER chief
As a close observer of multilateral trade negotiations since 1985 and as the Director and Chief Executive of the country’s premier think-tank, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Talking to Pakistan
Last week, the Prime Minister once again reiterated his position on negotiations with Islamabad, stating unequivocally that while New Delhi is determined to combat terror with “full vigour” it must “strive to engage ...

EDUCATION: Sibal’s impressive start
It is to the credit of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and his Ministerial team that the first 100 days of the second term of the UPA Government have generally been marked by a purposeful vigour in formulating and implementing policies in ...

LETTERS: MAT on gross assets
In the report “Ministry defends MAT based on gross assets” (Business Line, August 28), the Finance Ministry takes the position that whereas a Minimum Alternative Tax on gross assets may be unconventional in ...

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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