COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Bowing to the inevitable
AT long last, their comeuppance has caught up with the Bush-Blair duo. The case they had brazenly built up for invading and annexing Iraq solely based on the lurid visions of Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, sitting ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Fed's wordcraft roils markets
A rate rise still looks distant given the inflation - friendly data and a lack of job creation. In the end, the word substitution may turn out to be no more than mere semantics.
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REFLECTIONS
... Because of Medha Patkar
Medha and with her the poor Indian's tale have ceased to be news. Not that the poor Indian ever figured in the imagination of politicians and babus.
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DETAXFICATION
A smug presentation
BETWEEN a forenoon tea and lunch-break on an otherwise normal day, the latest Budget exercise was over, leaving many wondering what transpired in the hallowed precincts of the Lok Sabha. In the beginning, however, there were some tense moments, ...
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DOWN TO EARTH
Nature's caprices and state's tyranny
Politicians talk loosely of compensation and glibly of comprehensive crop insurance. What kind of an insurance can protect farmers against the caprices of nature in a country where the agriculture is capital-starved and there are no physical protecti on like poly-houses and culturing of whole soils to provide perfect drainage?
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EAR TO THE GROUND
ONGC slips on IPO concern
THE counter of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is on a downslide over the last few days in line with the overall market. However, the fall in the price is much more than Sensex and Nifty. If the market talk is to be believed, selling in ...
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ON THE HEDGE
Outlook negative for HCL Tech, PNB
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segments on the NSE: HCL Tech: The stock closed at Rs 300 in the spot market. The outlook appears negative, but the downtrend will be confirmed if ...
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SENSOR
Sharp sell-off in mid-cap stocks
THE bout of profit booking in mid-cap stocks continued on Tuesday. The CNC Midcap 200 Index declined by a steep five per cent. About 300 stocks, most of them from the mid-cap and small-cap genre, shed more than eight per cent. Even stocks ...
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