Invisible exports
What exactly does India earn from software exports? Nobody knows. There are no "official" numbers available and no government agency is as yet trying to collect these numbers.

Medical tourism is here
The statement of the health minister, Mr C P Thakur, about his ministry's efforts to promote medical tourism to India is to be cautiously welcomed.

That will be justice
Special judge, Mr Ajit Bharihoke, has done well to ask the CBI to look for possible offences under the anti-corruption law by the three JMM leaders from the `disproportionate assets' angle.

An opportunity lurks in this crisis
When oil prices began to move up in Sept, Indian authorities' initial reaction was one of benign neglect. They must have thought that we would repeat what we did in the '70s when we somehow managed to weather the storm created by the first two oil shocks.

The insiders talking to themselves
Chances are, depending on your reading habits, you think The Insider is a book written by John Grisham or Narasimha Rao.

eavesdropper
As Nov 15 comes closer, a section of the finance ministry is getting tense. The reason? There are rumours that finance minister Yashwant Sinha may emerge the dark horse to become the first chief minister of Jharkhand, scheduled to come into being from that day.