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India
at 54 |
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Long years ago, independent
India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, asked
of us as a nation if we were “brave enough and wise enough”
to grasp the opportunity freedom gave us and “accept the challenge
of the future”. |
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Showcasing
fashion |
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Close on the heels of the recently
concluded LIFW, the fashion industry will come together under
one roof yet again. Prominent industry associations are gearing
up to showcase the entire gamut of products including apparels,
jewellery, shoes, bags, personal care and skin products, watches
and cosmetics etc— which make for a whopping Rs 40,000 crore
industry. |
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PRO
BONO PUBLICO: S S Tarapore
There are no free lunches |
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Recapitalisation is a word
not found in the lexicon yet, the world over, although it is
accepted as standard financial sector jargon. The cost of financial
sector bailouts can be heavy and in some countries it has been
as high as 50 per cent of their GDP. |
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EXPRESSO:
Sourav Majumdar
It’s now time to act tough |
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When the Unit Trust of India
announced detailed portfolios of all its schemes as on June
30, 2001, the disclosures relating to non-performing assets
in most of its schemes came as no surprise to those following
the fate of the Trust and other financial institutions. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Key to making babus work |
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It is no secret that
former Union finance minister P Chidambaram is a fan of the
South East Asian tigers, notwithstanding the spectacular collapse
of their economies in the not-so-recent East Asian financial
crisis. |
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