Cine shelf life

In one of the several spinoffs of the corporatisation of Bollywood, big-ticket Hindi movies are going well beyond the conventional…

Derived demand

Liquidity will now flow into a larger pool and not flood the small little pond. Capital market regulator Sebi?s move…

Inflation targeting

Analysts now allege that the Chinese central bank?s recently stipulated hike in the cash reserves of commercial banks addresses just…

Privacy please

The department of telecommunications needs to be commended for finally deciding to implement mobile number portability in a phased manner.…

Just go ahead

The finance ministry has already cleared the way for India?s public sector companies to make mutual fund investments. But despite…

Look again

The index of industrial production numbers for September are not much of an aberration if one discounts the sharp spike…

Allocation ambition

India’s Eleventh Five Year Plan starts on a substantially different footing from all its predecessors. That old bugbear of resource…

Colour-blind banking

Attitudes in the Indian banking sector are coming under the influence of liberalisation at its most liberal. Eavesdropper has seized…

Raja?s roster

It is also a sad commentary on governance in the country?particularly the delusions of power that ministers continue to labour…

Price puzzle

If falling inflation, as measured by the weekly estimate of the wholesale price index, has been a matter of puzzlement…