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SEZs and stakes for all

The government?s announcement of a review of the policy on rehabilitation of land-losers in SEZs indicates the complexity and contention…

Good intentions need a solid backbone

This fiscal has yielded revenue growth much above targets. Among the reasons behind the increase has been high GDP growth,…

The great banking slice up

At this time last year, we saw a raging controversy over the proposed headcount of minorities in the armed forces.…

Unafraid of being caught napping

Some time last year, the ministry of company affairs? (MCA?s) ambitious, Rs 340-crore e-governance programme, called MCA 21, began a…

Going green for power generation

India intensifies its search for technologies to tap large-scale renewable energy from new sources like tidal currents and geo thermal…

A lament for Alistair

Nearly every male reader of my generation would possibly remember which was the first Alistair Maclean book he read. To…

A vision to repair the machinery

?It is not the policies that are failing so much as the machinery for implementing them.? ? The Economist This…

India Inc asks FM not to micro-manage

India Inc on Wednesday said there was no evidence to prove finance minister P Chidambaram?s views that companies artificially jacked…

Saving Mother Earth

Indian Science Congress general president Harsh Gupta cautioned that there would be tremendous pressure on Planet Earth?s resources as the…