There is much excitement in Singapore about the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) with India, expected in…
Last week, over 500 district collectors were in Delhi for a two-day conference. The finance minister and several other ministers…
The Press Information Bureau is working overtime, with the handouts from different central ministries on the achievements of the UPA…
The early ?80s witnessed a renewed thrust on public expenditure funded infrastructure development in India. The focus was on thermal…
On several occasions last fortnight, the Chinese Premier called for a broader and deeper relationship in trade and economy between…
The foreign trade policy for the coming year should have been announced before March 31, but has been postponed, reportedly…
The Budget has received considerable media attention, from the initially euphoric to cautious to critical, in the days succeeding its…
The Finance Minister needs to be complimented on an extremely fine balancing act between the need to push through reforms…
The finance minister has done an extremely fine balancing act, between the need to push reforms and to further the…
The issues of a level playing field for manufacturing, of parity between cost structures of imported and locally manufactured items,…
The hall was full at the first seminar of the centre for south Asian studies in Singapore. During coffee break,…
There?s been considerable media comment after the recent speech of the RBI governor, in which he expressed anxiety over the…
Every year the issue of duties on crude oil and petroleum products becomes a matter of dispute between the petroleum…
In the winter of 1977, a huge tidal wave, an aftermath of a cyclonic depression in the Bay of Bengal,…
The commissions are all in place and the task of finding out what is wrong and how to do it…
Rich versus poor comparisons are at the forefront once again, with Time magazine and the World Bank president echoing the…
The focus during the visit of the Prime Minister of Pakistan is as much on improving trade as on dialogue…
High oil prices are likely to stay. Growing demand, particularly from India and China, absence of any significant new finds,…
