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EDITORIAL: Green in patches
With the growth in the country’s industrial output index more than doubling to 10 per cent since January, stakeholders are showing off a new spring in their step. The Reserve Bank of India’s recent policy review mentions an upswing ...

CREDIT POLICY: Monetary policy and fiscal consolidation
The jury is out on whether the Reserve Bank of India got its inflation-growth balance right in its busy season review of Monetary Policy. However, there can be no denying that at least in the short-term the growth impulses will have to come from ...

AGRICULTURE: Why not covered agriculture?
We are faced with unprecedented global warming, as also threatened by drought and famine. However, this happens to be the time when radical restructuring can be undertaken. A large proportion of the farming population, according to a study ...

POWER: The worsening power crisis
There appears to be no solution in sight for the prolonged and worsening power crisis facing the country with continuing slippages in capacity addition targets, unacceptably high levels of transmission and distribution (T&D) losses, power ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: Nation expects transparency
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, are doing no good to the cause of good governance and integrity in public life by their ambiguous pronouncements on the persistent allegations of corruption ...

ACCIDENTS: A faulty system
Last Saturday, the newspapers carried a report of an elderly man who fell off a speeding bus and lay unattended on a crowded Kolkata Street for nearly 30 minutes before he was taken to a government hospital a few metres away. The papers ...

LETTERS: Indira and India
In the article “Indira and India” (Business Line, November 3), the author’s review of Indira Gandhi’s performance and contribution to Indian politics makes interesting reading. Although ...

LETTERS: ’Other income’
In the results for the July-September (2009) quarter, many banks have reported substantial growth in ‘other income’ that includes earnings from treasury ...

LETTERS: ‘Cane truths’
The sugar industry has recently been given the status of food processing industry which will help in its ...


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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