Enter, KC Pant
The new deputy chairman of the Planning Commission is sharp, clear-headed, and not the kind of person who can be fobbed off. KC Pant is a politician who thinks for himself, takes his job seriously, but manages to keep his suave cool.

In choppy waters
The Maharashtra Maritime Board should be wound up. Much as the state government would like to deny it, Maharashtra has lost out to Gujarat in the private port sector.

Super 301 threatens multilateral trade regime
The French are very particular about their food. So, when a couple of years back they decided to ask shops to label scallops (a kind of shellfish) from foreign waters differently from scallops from French waters, nobody might have expected to have a problem.

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