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February 29, 2008

A Padmanabhan: Tribute: Sujatha will live with us through his work - News
Business Standard: Economic Survey: A welcome change - Business
Pranab Mukherjee: How we repaid the IMF loan - Business
Yashwant Sinha: If I was the finance minister... - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Must-read for the 11th Plan writers - Business
Business Standard: A check list to assess the Budget - Business

February 28, 2008

Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd): Will Zardari dump Sharif? - News
M R Venkatesh: Why the Budget won't do anything for you - Business

February 27, 2008

Rajeev Srinivasan: Obama's Rise and Rise: Camelot or Bust? - News
Harold Gould: US must adopt a tough Al Qaeda policy - News
A K Bhattacharya: The sustainability of Lalu's magic - Business
Joaquim Carvalho: We just cannot afford to fail: Carvalho - Sports

February 26, 2008

B S Raghavan: A powder-keg on the border with China - News
T V R Shenoy: Politics and the power of hope - News
Raja Sen: No Country For Young Men - Movies

February 25, 2008

Shankar Acharya: Father of India's tax reforms - Business
Devangshu Datta: Betting on RBI's moves - Business
Sukumar Mukhopadhyay: Inverted import duty structures? Bad logic - Business
BS Reporter: An honest tax-payer's request to FM - Business
Sunil Jain: Budget: Do FM, PM have a free hand? - Business
A V Rajwade: Can car owners, rich farmers be 'common men'? - Business
Nitin Desai: 3 main questions before the finance minister - Business
Business Standard: Why farm loan waiver is a bad idea - Business

February 23, 2008

Vinod K Sharma: Can the Fed steer US out of recession? - Business
Sanjay Kumar: Is it time to reduce the tax rates? - Business
TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan: Do populist Budgets win elections? - Business

February 22, 2008

Kanwal Sibal: India should stand up to China as an equal - News

February 21, 2008

Hamid Mir: US will pressure PPP to keep Musharraf - News
Amulya Ganguli: Has the BJP become pseudo-secular? - News
Shyamal Majumdar: The 'she'-change in employment - Business
Shashikant Trivedi: 16 years and still waiting for garment complex - Business

February 20, 2008

B Raman: Musharraf: Cohabitation or exit? - News
Mohammad Shehzad: Pakistan: Poll leaves Musharraf cornered - News
A N Shanbhag & Sandeep Shanbhag: Want to buy stocks in India? PINS a must - News
Ajay Shah: RBI's currency policy: An 'inconsistent' policy - Business
Girish Vanvari: Boosting M&As: Laws need to change - Business
A K Bhattacharya: Commerce ministry worried only about exporters - Business
Subir Roy: How to build 30 new Bangalores? - Business

February 19, 2008

D Ravi Kanth: Doha talks: The devil's in the draft - Business
M J Antony: Kuldip Singh: A name that politicians dread - Business
Deepak Lal: Biofuels: An assault on the world's poor - Business
Sreelatha Menon: Weaving costliest items, but earning nothing - Business
Surinder Kapur: Why dreams are good for corporates - Business
Sunil Jain: A world-class Hyderabad airport? Not too sure - Business

February 18, 2008

Nazarwala: Mayawati may settle for deputy prime minister - News
Hamid Mir: Musharraf heading for a painful end - News
Somasekhar Sundaresan: India shining. Really? - Business
Abheek Barua: Sub-prime mess: Lessons to learn - Business
S Madhavan: Canteen for staff? Not related to business, says Tribunal - Business

February 17, 2008

B Raman: Pakistan elections: Keeping fingers crossed - News
Hamid Mir: Musharraf's advisors expect another poll after 6 months - News

February 16, 2008

Hamid Mir: Pakistanis won't accept a new General - News
Surjit S Bhalla: Independent RBI -- good policy! - Business
Vinod K Sharma: It's worse than a bear market - Business

February 15, 2008

Sushant Sareen: Why the Pakistan elections will be rigged - News
Tarun Vijay: Is being Indian not enough? - News
Jaimini Bhagwati: Are top bankers highly overpaid? - Business
Ganesh Natarajan: Innovation best long term response - Business
Jamal Mecklai: Of ratings and regulators - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Is monetary policy blind man's buff? - Business
Anjuli Bhargava: Dangers of airline emissions - Business
Business Standard: Tough job for the new Sebi chief - Business
B S Raghavan: Beefing up the nation's finances - Business

February 14, 2008

Bharat Verma: How India can acquire great power status - News
Francois Gautier: Needed: Vision, an honest mind & a dedicated nationalist spirit - News
Shankar Acharya: RBI should cut rates now! - Business
Arvind Singhal: How India can gain from a slowdown - Business
Barun Roy: After Nano, what? - Business

February 13, 2008

Prasad Sangameshwaran: Learn from your mistakes, else... - Business
Som Mittal: 'Indian IT has come of age' - Business

February 12, 2008

B S Raghavan: Arunachal: The land of rising ire - News
Indira Jaising: Why is Taslima Nasreen a prisoner? - News
Akash Prakash: Not the end of bull market but a correction - Business
Meenakshi Radhakrishnan-Swami: Next billion or the new Holy Grail - Business
A V Rajwade: Fed, ECB cut rates: Why India's different - Business
R Ravimohan: Budget: What are the key concerns - Business
A Seshan: It's time to levy a flat tax - Business

February 11, 2008

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: 'Maharishi was an emperor and an ascetic' - News
Subir Gokarn: Budget: A tough balancing act - Business

February 09, 2008

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: US elections trigger recessions? - Business

February 08, 2008

Subir Roy: India faces a huge urban crisis - Business
Govindraj Ethiraj: When the Internet plays agony aunt - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Financial reforms precede crisis - Business
Arvind Subramanian: What is China doing to its workers? - Business
A K Bhattacharya: GDP: Dealing with dodgy data - Business

February 07, 2008

D S Rajan: China uneasy over PM's Arunachal visit - News
Shyamal Majumdar: No more big pay hike, bonus for IT staff? - Business
Lokendra Tomar: How to recover from failure - Business
Raja Sen: Vanity Unfair: Applause to a great mag - Movies

February 06, 2008

Pranab Mukherjee: Security in the Asian Century - News

February 05, 2008

: The SocGen controversy in India - Business
Business Standard: How the CSO fine-tunes GDP figures - Business
M Govinda Rao: Budget, an opportunity to prepare for GST - Business

February 04, 2008

Saisuresh Sivaswamy: History's detritus - News
Mukul Pal: How scary is the recent US recession - Business
Devangshu Datta: Investing? Plan well for the next 2 years - Business
Anjuli Bhargava: Of India and crazy airport rules - Business
Ajit Dayal: In God we trust, but in gold we invest - Business

February 02, 2008

Tarun Vijay: The editor who defined Indian journalism - News

February 01, 2008

Madhukar Sabnavis: Indian advertising uses the 'fear' factor - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: The Americans have finally panicked - Business
M R Venkatesh: Who cares for the dollar? Not the Fed, surely! - Business
Sriram Ranganathan: Just get everyone to shut up! - Cricket

January 31, 2008

Arvind Singhal: The promise of the Nano - Business
Vidya Mahambare: Don't blame FIIs for the rupee - Business
M R Venkatesh: Why the US rate cut may kill the dollar - Business

January 30, 2008

B Raman: HuJI and the Indian connection - News
Shyam Saran: India and China: Partners not rivals - News
Claude Arpi: Sarkozy visit: Style but no substance - News
Subir Roy: Post-modern India of sudden death - Business
A K Bhattacharya: Mr Chidambaram's Budget No. Seven - Business
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: 'We're coming to burn your house down!' - Get Ahead

January 29, 2008

M R Venkatesh: Why China is ahead of India - Business

January 28, 2008

T N Ninan: Merchant bankers are like movie stars - Business
Subir Gokarn: Why a rate cut is essential - Business
Rupa Rege Nitsure: CRR hikes hurt SMEs and small savers - Business
B Raman: Sino-Indian trade: It's helping only China - Business

January 25, 2008

Srinivas Roopi: Telangana state is no distant dream - News
L C Jain: How can we allow this disgraceful situation to continue? - News
M P Anil Kumar: Rediscover the Sainik school - News
Jaimini Bhagwati: How about an Asian Investment Bank? - Business
Aminah Sheikh: Online video, the next big thing - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: The Yin and Yang of markets - Business
Ajit Balakrishnan: The misguided search for excellence - Business
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: 'Stocks profit, Rs 600...the wife is unimpressed!' - Get Ahead

January 24, 2008

Claude Arpi: France's Hyper President comes calling - News
Kanika Datta: We can pay more tax only if... - Business

January 23, 2008

M J Antony: Accident claims: Compensation just got bigger - Business
Latha Jishnu: Meet the prophet of free software - Business
A K Bhattacharya: Nandan Nilekani's advice to govt officials - Business
Raja Sen: Heath Ledger: A Killing Joke - Movies

January 22, 2008

Ajay Bose: How Mayawati, Modi shape up on national stage - News
Govindraj Ethiraj: Tough to keep the Nano at Rs 1 lakh - Business

January 21, 2008

A K Antony: A K Antony: How DRDO has helped the nation - News
Mukul Pal: Market correction? What's that? - Business

January 19, 2008

Shobhana Subramanian: Spectrum: Why Reliance Comm has an edge - Business
Surjit S Bhalla: The rupee rise benefits China - Business

January 18, 2008

Arvind J Bosmia: How Modi hopes to overcome opposition - News
Sri Sri Ravishankar: Lessons from Pakistan - News
L K Advani: Why China and India are important to world peace - News
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Why not have an expiry date for PhDs? - Business
Business Standard: New twist in the spectrum war - Business
Jamal Mecklai: Is the US going into a recession? - Business

January 17, 2008

B S Raghavan: Sino-Indian vision: Bloated, sugar-coated candy floss - News
BS Bureau: Reliance Power: Everyone wants a piece of action - Business
: Unlocking value from demergers - Business
Nitin Desai: What is in store for the Indian economy - Business
M R Venkatesh: Of cement, cartels and corruption - Business

January 16, 2008

A K Bhattacharya: NRIs: Fair-weather friends? - Business
Piyush Shah, Member, Indian Angel Network: Why do some entrepreneurs fail? - Get Ahead

January 15, 2008

M K Bhadrakumar: Euphoria over PM's China visit unwarranted - News
Bharat Verma: How DRDO failed India's military - News
B S Prakash: The mind in a burger - News
Ramanujam Sridhar: The 3 ingredients of success - Business
Arvind Subramanian: Fact check, reality check? New GDP data - Business

January 14, 2008

Pradeep Srivastava: Why you should retire quickly - News
Srikanth Kondapalli: PM in China: Engaging the Dragon - News
Srinivas Bharadwaj: Why some US scribes slammed Tata Nano - Business
G V Dasarathi: It's not Tata, it's the govt, stupid! - Business
D V Sridharan: Understanding the Australian - Cricket
Raja Sen: Did the Golden Globes really happen this year? - Movies

January 12, 2008

T N Ninan: Ratan Tata, the ugly duckling - Business

January 11, 2008

B Raman: China, India still suspicious of each other - News
Rajeev Srinivasan: On this Winter Solstice, I am a Gujarati - News
Dr A N Prasad: Nuclear negotiators have not learnt from Tarapur experience - News
Colonel Anil Athale (retd): Lanka turmoil: Threat to India's soft underbelly - News
M K Bhadrakumar: Dr Singh is not Richard Gere - News
Wang Dehua: Let the Dragon and Elephant tango - News
Sheela Bhatt: Thank you, Mr Tata, for thinking of the common man! - Business
Ajit Balakrishnan: Decoding the Rs 1 lakh message - Business

January 10, 2008

T P Sreenivasan: Violence in Kenya: A plague in paradise - News
Inzamam-ul-Haq: Sydney Test was Oval revisited - Cricket

January 09, 2008

Srikanth Kondapalli: PM in China: Stability in times of turmoil - News
Claude Arpi: Good timing for PM's visit to China - News

January 08, 2008

Ram Madhav: Local factors led to Kandhamal violence - News
BS Bureau: How the govt squeezes the press - Business
Harish B: An Indian heart needed to succeed in India - Business
Sunanda K Datta-Ray: Countering the dragon - Business
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: A dosa travels to China: The veg-non veg debate - Get Ahead
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: A dosa travels to China: The veg-non veg debate - Get Ahead

January 07, 2008

BS Bureau: Betting on power reforms - Business
Syed Firdaus Ashraf: Khan: The magic Bollywood word - Movies

January 05, 2008

Devangshu Datta: Of surrogacy, economics & law - Business

January 04, 2008

Mritiunjoy Mohanty: Why criticising the Rs 1-lakh car is wrong - Business
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: How to be a good sole superpower - Business
Anjuli Bhargava: How safe are the Indian skies? - Business

January 03, 2008

Mohan Guruswamy: Armed might won't defeat the Naxals - News
Jo Johnson: Musharraf is wrong to delay the election - News
Shreekant Sambrani: The other Benazir we should remember - News
M Govinda Rao: Fiscal Outlook and the Union Budget - Business

January 02, 2008

B Raman: UP attack: Rise of the homegrown jihadi? - News
R N Iyer: B-schools don't teach how to deal with people - Business
A K Bhattacharya: North Block's endangered species - Business
Ajay Shah: Understanding the FII - Business
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: No Indians, please! - Get Ahead
Sidin Sunny Vadukut: No Indians, please! - Get Ahead

January 01, 2008

Hamid Mir: Benazir's disrupted dream: Bridging Islam with the West - News