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‘Non-core’ solutions
There is both a good and a bad side to official wholesale price inflation dropping below five per cent in April for the first time in 41 months. The perceptible decline is good in so far that it c... »
A quick-fix won’t do
The Government should waste no time in going ahead with a proposed plan to hive off the network infrastructure and land assets of BSNL and MTNL into separate companies. The idea makes eminent sens... »
Ordinance sans consensus
Parliament was adjourned sine die after legislating on the Budget and little else beyond that. It is not due to meet for another couple of months until the next Monsoon session. Under the circumst... »
Karnataka verdict
By giving the Congress a clear majority in the latest assembly polls in Karnataka and throwing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out in the process, voters in the State have sent out a messa... »
Going abroad
There’s no worse time for individuals, firms or nations to borrow than when in real desperation. That being the case, this may not be a bad time for India to consider floating a ‘sovereign bond’ i... »
Risking ‘core’ inflation
By reducing its ‘repo' or lending rate to banks by a token 0.25 percentage points and maintaining status quo with regard to their cash reserve ratio (CRR) requirements, the Reserve Bank of India (... »
Weighed down by cost
The Government has allowed domestic airlines to charge passengers for the services they avail of. Low-cost carriers are already doing this in the case of in-flight meals served to passengers. The... »
No deal on subsidy
India should resist any demand for reduction in agricultural subsidies by developing countries as part of a deal to revive the World Trade Organisation’s tottering Doha Round talks. The WTO’s exis... »
It’s not economics
A great deal has been thought, spoken and written about the calculation error made by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. The two Harvard University economists, after analysing time series data fr... »
In sourcing Defence
With an annual Defence capital outlay budget of almost $ 16 billion, India offers a significant market for military equipment, weapon systems and platforms. Unfortunately though, this market has n... »
Default insurance
Village veto
Profitable deal
Golden run
Sputtering growth
Licence to bank
Right call
Sweetening sugar reform
Wheels within wheels
The debate over whether or not to allow quadricycles to ply on Indian roads is striking for at least two reasons. The first has to do with timing: The fiscal ended March saw car sales drop, the fi... »
No ‘green shoots’ for India Inc
The modest two-and-a-half per cent year-on-year growth in industrial output for March, based on officially released data, may or may not signal a recovery in the broader economy. But the listed co... »
Police freedom
Every now and then, the issue of freeing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the Government’s clutches takes on a fresh urgency. The latter’s response has been to wait till the fuss die... »
Lightening trades
Viewed purely through the rubric of a level field for players, big and small, a market structure conferring on some the privilege of getting their orders executed just that fraction of a second ah... »
Fewer and better
For a country where agriculture is seen as a ‘way of life’, it is disconcerting, at first sight, to find the number of farmers registering a decline between 2001 and 2011. The fall, from 10.36 cro... »
Vote of confidence
For a multinational consumer goods giant deriving close to 60 per cent of its revenues from emerging markets and registering double-digit growth in sales quarter after quarter, Unilever Plc’s plan... »
A fair way
Highway developers do have a case in wanting to reschedule their ‘premium’ payouts in projects stuck on account of environmental, forest and other statutory clearances. Under the current public-pr... »
Weathering forecasts
Given how awry its forecasts in the last couple of years had gone, one can be forgiven for being cynical about the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) prognosis of a ‘normal’ South-West monsoo... »
Flying high
Very rarely does one get to see a company take nearly a fourth of a stake in another, but loss-making company by paying nearly a third more than the ruling market price for the latter company’s sh... »
Case of oversight
It would be easy to dismiss the Saradha chit fund debacle now playing out in West Bengal as just another instance of avaricious investors throwing caution to the winds when tempted with high retur... »
More freedom for cash
Sops galore
Hope on fuel front
A robust model
Flexing private muscle
For a cleaner market
Caesar's claims
