The Hindu Business Line : Friday, October 23, 2009

OPINION

MONETARY POLICY: Time to ease up on monetary throttle
In a few days, the Reserve Bank of India will unveil its Mid-Term Review of Annual Monetary Policy for 2009-10. Central to the review is an assessment of the extent of recovery post the financial crisis of both the global and Indian ...

RICE: The story of Pusa-1121
In early 1998, the then Director-General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr R.S. Paroda, convened a meeting of top rice exporters at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Pusa, New ...

EDITORIAL: Optimism creeps in
Slow but perceptible changes for the better that have been visible in the organised economy over the past four months are beginning to reflect in policy sentiment. Against the 6 per cent growth estimate of the Reserve Bank of India, the ...

ENVIRONMENT: Changing climate for talks
The significance of the upheaval in India in the past week over the proposed change in India’s stance in the climate change negotiations goes far beyond the huge uproar and political opportunism it has spawned. The letter written to ...

LETTERS: Base rates
It was indicated in the news item on the RBI panel report (Business Line, October 21) that the new base rate of interest would be kept at low level and would be uniform across all the banks. However, it was mentioned that ...

LETTERS: Wheat prices
That “Govt plans to sell 5 lt wheat in open market” (Business Line, October 19) comes as a ‘bolt from the blue’ even as the country is reeling under the effects of exorbitantly high prices over the ...

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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