While a sustainable model for ramping up airport capacities is yet to discerned, the development of national highways in the country provides evidence of how leveraging the existing infrastructure is the way to go. »

The CEO cannot deliver on his promise of reasonable returns to shareholders unless he is able to measure profits. Similarly, the traffic police cannot deliver on disciplined road behaviour without a measure of the occurrence of violations. »

Whatever the merits of the brouhaha over the Ambedkar cartoon, the more crucial issue here is that the NCERT should not be in the business of preparing textbooks. »

It would be both in the interest of producers and consumers to allow market forces to decide the price of a natural resource. Instead, the Government distorts the situation, as in the case of the KG basin, by playing God. »

If the nuclear scientists could be trusted not to turn into rogues and drop a bomb or two in some part of the country, the Service Chiefs can be trusted upon to not turn their guns against the civil authority. »

The conservatism that the Finance Minister has displayed in Budget making is in sharp contrast to the performance of his junior Cabinet colleague, Mr Dinesh Trivedi, in presenting the Railway Budget. »

The Vedanta Group's consolidation efforts point to the need for a qualitative framework to analyse such decisions. The Sterlite-Sesa Goa deal makes strategic sense even if cash flows don't. »

In an act of policy overreach, the NDA government came up with the ‘first come first served' policy for additional spectrum, allowing its successor to take the art of tender manipulation to dizzy heights. »

There is hatred in cyberspace. But that has not got anybody frothing at the mouth, or hurling a stone at the nearest police station. Mr Sibal exaggerates the potential for a law and order problem that crankiness in cyberspace poses. »

Retail investors avoid corporate debt and equity as they would a snake. They park their savings in ‘safe' banks, which, in turn, invest in corporates. Hence, financial intermediaries do not dispel false perceptions; they just present another illusion. »