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PETROLEUM: NELP drills a dry well
It is delicious irony indeed. The government’s auction of oil and gas exploration blocks has flopped in the same year when it had its best advertisement — the commencement of gas production from a block awarded in a similar auction ...

EDITORIAL: Economising Nobel
“Whereas economic theory has comprehensively illuminated the virtues and limitations of markets, it has traditionally paid less attention to other institutional arrangements.” With this one sentence, the Nobel Committee that ...

AGRICULTURE: The new face of colonisation
The world is now going through a new phase of globalisation. Diverse countries such as oil-rich Saudi Arabia and the UAE, natural resource poor South Korea and overpopulated China and India are all acquiring huge tracts of land, mostly from ...

TECHNOLOGY: Technology and entrepreneurship — Click on three areas to fire up growth
In August 2009, the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, offered his most optimistic outlook since the financial crisis struck, saying that economic activity in both the US and around the world seems to be levelling out, and the economy ...

TERRORISM: Battling the extremists?
Last week, the UPA Government took a strategic step in the fight against the spread of extremist (Maoist) violence when the Cabinet Committee on Security enunciated its "clear-dominate-hold" line in areas where the menace has reached ...

POLITICS: Action on candidates’ affidavits
First some startling facts culled by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a national electoral watchdog, from the affidavits filed by candidates contesting elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra and put on its Web site ...

LETTERS: Credit flow
This has reference to your report “No dearth of credit for medium, small units” (Business Line, October 12). Banks may be sitting on tonnes of money but they are reluctant to grant credit to small and ...

LETTERS: Nobel as a deterrent
Apropos the reproduced article “Prize for promise, not performance” (Business Line, October 12), past US presidents, despite their promises to the contrary, have proved to be prisoners of their administration ...


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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