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A danger inherent in any disquisition on security environment is to make it so ponderous as to miss the wood for the trees. Identifying and grasping ...

It is perhaps time to visit nuclear power all over again, given the grave safety risks the plants pose.

The Prime Minister's focus on double-digit growth is not due to any ‘growth mania'. It is for the benefit of the poor.

The Mohanty Report's recommendations provide a consistent framework within which day-to-day monetary policy operations can be conducted efficiently.

The vision for a country's security and the mission for policy planners drawing up a security doctrine are necessarily guided by its civilisational ...

The RBI Working Group that reviewed the Liquidity Adjustment Facility could have made it clear that the objectives of the LAF was to solve problems of temporary mismatches in financial flows and not for meeting the requirements of the regular business of banks.

I find it necessary to interrupt my series on India's security doctrine with the present one, in view of the potentially destabilising implications of ...

A farmers' company formed in 1997 tried to give a material form to the claims on land by issuing equity shares in exchange for land, as also the labour contributed.

Global food prices are spiking once again, creating fears of a renewal or intensification of the global food crisis. How much this affects developing countries depends on the responsiveness of domestic prices to global trade prices. An analysis of recent patterns of food price changes in some countries of Asia helps assess the implications.

The Budget should be an instrument of economic discipline and a promoter of healthy social development. As it is, it is like a leaky tap; it cannot halt inflation without disciplining political skulduggery.

It is now a universally accepted proposition that a vision and mission statement imparts a sense of purpose and direction and a self-regenerating ...

The UPA Government cheers the RBI for its anti-inflationary moves, while doing precious little to address the problem.

Much interesting and intelligent debate has been going on in the press and the media on the justification or otherwise, of passive euthanasia which ...

Japan's reconstruction will soak up its current account surplus and cut capital outflows, raising the cost of capital globally. As for India, it should focus on measures to make nuclear energy safer, rather than open up the question of using it at all.

Raising objections about the veracity and evidentiary value of the Wikileaks documents is nothing but an attempt by the Government to shirk its accountability to the people.

The RBI is struggling with liquidity management, because of the sharp fluctuations in government cash balances. The Mohanty panel has made some timely suggestions on managing the liquidity adjustment facility and the Bank Rate.

The battle-lines are drawn for the coming Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. Unfortunately for the electorate, it is a choice between the same pair of ...

The formulation of a credible and durable national security doctrine for India, in the light of my immediately preceding two columns, has necessarily ...

The media has not exactly covered itself in glory in its coverage of the Somali hostage crisis. By persuading the government to negotiate with kidnappers, as it did during the IC-814 hijack, the media has not acted in the national interest.

The nuclear power industry will have to face the challenge of increased public concern by setting the highest possible standards of safety and security.

Kaushik Basu offers an interesting theory of inflation linked to purchasing power parity catch-up in the latest Economic Survey.

In my last column (March 14) I pointed out how the absence of a national security doctrine for India constituted a dangerous vacuum and stressed the ...

Uprisings in the Arab world have emboldened Iraq's youth to make their government accountable. They cannot understand why the people “of a rich country like Iraq” should face shortages in food and other essential commodities.

Indian agriculture desperately needs resurgence. Farm growth over the last ten years has been tardy,even as the country registered remarkable rates of ...