OPINION
EDITORIAL
More bang for buck
IF YOU BOUGHT detergent powder or a bottle of shampoo lately your wallet would not have become dramatically the lighter for it. You would also have found buying toothpastes and toilet soaps a cheaper proposition. If last year was one of freebies ...
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AGRICULTURE
Bamboo — the ordinary plant with extraordinary uses
BAMBOO is almost ubiquitous in nature. One of the oldest plants on Earth, bamboo is cultivated, or grows, throughout the world and has uses from cradle to coffin. For various reasons, this grass has fascinated people, ...
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STEEL
Case for regulatory body for steel
Normally, the prices of products in a decontrolled regime are best left to the interplay of market forces. But when there are few producers and competition is limited, there is need for a regulatory body to oversee the justification for revision.
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TERRORISM
Failure to prevent 9/11: Condoleezza Rice's unconvincing script
The three-hour long evidence tendered by the US National Security Adviser, Dr Condoleezza Rice, would have provided no reassurance to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the US about the diligence and vigilance exercised by departments an d agencies in the period prior to 9/11. They would have in fact been disturbed to be told that many loose ends still remained to be tied up. On the whole, the more things change, the more they are the same.
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EDUCATION
IIMs, IDFC: Power and autonomy contrasted
The IIMs and Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation provide two cases for understanding the significance of power and autonomy and their exercise by leaders. While the Government has asserted its commitment to preserving the private-sector ch aracteristics of IDFC, it has not been forced to preserve and promote the autonomy of the IIMs, says G. Ramachandran.
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NON-PERFORMING ASSETS
Banker-borrower relationship — Why the 90-day norm is important
"A DEBT not asked is lost," is a universal saying. Banks ought to know it better than the others. But that was not the case with Indian public sector banks (PSBs) in the first two decades of ...
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LETTERS
Fiscal imbalance
Boost to auto industry
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