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Regulating chit funds a tough task
1 May 2013 4:55 AM ISTNotwithstanding the combined assault on the murky West Bengal chit fund operator, Sudipta Sen, his associates and group companies by the CBI, SEBI and...
Cast in an iron trap
23 April 2013 5:16 AM ISTUnbelievable, but true: India, until recently the world’s 3rd largest exporter of iron ore, has lately imported a lot of this commodity to support...
All that’s black is not coal
17 April 2013 4:32 AM ISTHow trustworthy is Coal India (CIL) chairman S Narsing Rao’s supply commitment to the power sector in terms of both quantity and quality for the...
India INC raring for change
11 April 2013 5:50 AM ISTWith the industry’s production, sales and bottom-line growth curves and graphs all moving downward to the right in unison, business barons are getting...
Current account crisis is govt’s own making
9 April 2013 8:10 AM ISTIndian economy has been witnessing constant tremors from current account deficit (CAD) since 2010-2011. The biggest shock came at a highly alarming...
Gamble of stamping Bihar ‘backward’
2 April 2013 6:02 AM ISTBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar knows fully well that this poll-bound UPA-II government has no power to arbitrarily accord his state a ‘backward’...
The dark side of economic reform
27 March 2013 4:36 AM ISTIndia’s two decade-old economic reform policy is finally exposing its weaknesses. Initially, the reform was all about phased liberalisation of the...
Stop prompting RBI on inflation
20 March 2013 4:10 AM ISTThis Congress-led UPA government appears to be almost equally unhappy with the working of all other independent democratic institutions. Somewhat...
The vision and the Budget
14 March 2013 4:02 AM ISTIf government intentions were truly translated into action, today India, not China, would have been the world’s second largest economy. India’s...
Industry suffers, renders lakhs jobless
8 March 2013 4:18 AM ISTOver 90 mines in Goa, all exporting iron ore mostly of low quality, are closed for months. The number of closed or under-performing iron ore mines...
High on words, low on substance
2 March 2013 4:24 AM ISTFinance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has kept his word. He did not present a typical pre-election soft budget and tried hard to strike a balance...
Low on investment, high on promises
28 Feb 2013 3:52 AM ISTThe Railways, a prime mover of India’s economy, are in bad times. Going by all key operational parameters such as handling of freight earning cargo...