Editorial
February 22, 2012
A safe harbour for ports
The Centre's inclination towards a legislation for bringing all ports in India under a common regulatory regime is clearly an attempt at levelling the field between two sets of players in this bus... »
Opinion
February 22, 2012
Paradigm shift in IT sector
Once again last week, US President Barack Obama, fighting for a second term in office, raised the bogey of Indian firms, particularly information technology and business process outsourcing firms,... »
Opinion
February 22, 2012
Limits to what the Budget can achieve
The Budget deals with allocating money towards areas where the government thinks it is essential to spend, and finding out ways such as taxes, to finance it. The Government primarily requires mone... »
Opinion
February 21, 2012
Jobless growth continues in India
The report on Global Employment Patterns 2012, released recently by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is heroically sub-titled “Preventing a deeper jobs crisis”, even as the globa... »
Opinion
February 22, 2012
There's another side to the Norway episode
The hue and cry over the appropriation of Abhigyan and Aishwarya by the Norwegian Child Protection Services (CPS) seemed to have ended, with the decision to hand over the children... »
Opinion
February 22, 2012
Being Indian in America
The Presidential election race is slowly gathering momentum in the United States, and there is every reason to bet that the politically-energised Indian American community and the money ba... »
Opinion
February 21, 2012
Debt deal may compound Greece's woes
The bailout package announced by Euro Finance ministers for Greece is more of the same — a can-kicking exercise which is unlikely to last. The key ingredients of the deal are: <... »
Raising political culture to world class
In August 2011, Britain was rocked by some of the worst racial riots since the war. Never before had there been such a breakdown of law and order in so many prominent towns — London, Birmingham, Ma... »
Designing signposts for a road to nowhere
Trust bureaucrats to muster all the gobbledygook they are capable of to make utterly plain and simple things obtuse, obfuscatory and complicated!
If the Performance Management Division of... »
Justifying capitalism in America
The lead-up to elections is always a great source of entertainment, especially if you are not a candidate. Parties and candidates squirm as they try to explain controversial decisions and actions... »
Behind the fear of debt
Fears are being expressed in official policy circles that the country's dependence on foreign debt, as opposed to foreign investment, to finance the external deficit is increasing, leading to specific policy responses. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine these fears and assess the responses. »
- A. Seshan
- Ashoak Upadhyay
- Alok Ray
- Ashima Goyal
- B. S. Raghavan
- Bhaskar Balakrishnan
- C. Gopinath
- C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
- Chitra Narayanan
- D. Murali
- Ekalavya
- G. Chandrashekhar
- G. Parthasarathy
- Gnanasekaar T
- K. Kanagasabapathy
- Mohan Murti
- Narendar Pani
- P. V. Indiresan
- Rajiv Kumar
- Rasheeda Bhagat
- S. Murlidharan
- Sharad Joshi
- T. C. A. Srinivasa Raghavan
February 22, 2012
Equity market
The rise of the equity market and the indices in the last few weeks are not alarming, but shocking from a retail trader's point of view, especially for those who wait for a correction to h... »
February 20, 2012
Public education system
The article “Quality crisis in education” (Business Line, February 8) has analysed the factors responsible for the fall of public education system. Time was when all children studie... »
February 17, 2012
Divestment target
The report “Meeting divestment target ‘almost impossible'” (Business Line, February 16) brings out the lethargy with which the government dealt with the divestment issue, during the... »
February 15, 2012
Political class
From the editorial “Cure for FM's insomnia” (Business Line, February 11), one can understand the reasons for the Union Finance Minister's insomnia. But how many of his colleagues ar... »
February 13, 2012
For joint ventures
Considering our troubled neighbourhood, joint ventures on Defence are long overdue. They would bring in greater political bonhomie with nations across the globe. In fact, the Rafale deal h... »
February 21, 2012
Power projects
This refers to the news report “19% import duty likely on power equipment for mega projects” (Business Line, February 20). This may give a boost to domestic producers such as BHEL,... »
February 19, 2012
Fair judgment
The article “A child's nightmare called Norway” (Business Line, February 2) put things in the right context. In my capacity as a lawyer in Sweden, and the president of the ‘Nordic C... »
February 16, 2012
India's moment
Regarding the article “Europe's crisis can hurt India” (Business Line, February 16), the politicians and the ECB have attempted various approaches to save the euro. ECB's Longer-Ter... »
February 14, 2012
Untraceable money
This has reference to the report “$500-billion stashed away abroad by Indians: CBI” (Business Line, February 14). It is unfortunate that a central government authority is quite help... »
February 12, 2012
Revenue recovery
“NPA, a multi-headed monster” (Business Line, February 10) brings up some interesting points. The prime reason for incidence of non-performing assets (NPAs) is a poor recovery mecha... »
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Marriages, a happy way to avoid taxes
Making ICAR relevant
There's another side to the Norway episode
Attitude, our biggest infrastructure hurdle
Paradigm shift in IT sector
Seizing the moment
Why the quality crisis in education
Credit rating and textile industries
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