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| 'A Himalayan double whammy' |
20-NOV-09 |
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For almost a decade now, Maharaj K Pandit has been spending a lot of time in the eastern and western Himalayas studying the changes to the fragile ecology brought about by large-scale development projects.
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| 'NSDC will be like a private equity fund' |
13-NOV-09 |
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Last month, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) — a Rs10-crore, 51:49 private-public partnership (PPP) enterprise with a mandate to skill 30 per cent of an overall target of 500 million people by 2022.
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| 'Interest rates won't rise for two quarters' |
06-NOV-09 |
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There won’t be any earnings upgrades for India Inc till it starts investing; and firms aren’t going to invest until they see firm signs of a global recovery, perhaps when fourth quarter US numbers are out.
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| Lunch with BS: Neville Tuli |
03-NOV-09 |
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Osian's inexhaustible Neville Tuli has promised to place culture at the heart of India's development. |
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| 'We cannot regulate gas prices' |
30-OCT-09 |
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Two years after it was first constituted, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) continues to move ahead in a patchy manner — it is inviting bids for 2,800 km of cross-country pipelines and 1,200 km of spurlines next week; it is in the process of fixing tariffs for the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Gas Transportation India Limited (RGTIL) pipeline; and will bid out around eight to ten geographical areas for city-gas distribution every month for another two to three years.
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| Coffee with BS: Peter Varghese |
27-OCT-09 |
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Whether it's racist attacks on Indian students or the Chinese attitude in the Rio Tinto case, Australia's Indian-origin high commissioner chooses to remain focused on "hard interests". |
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| 'There is a Maldivian link to 26/11' |
25-OCT-09 |
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Mohamed Nasheed, the president of the Maldives, who was in New Delhi as the chief guest at the “High-Level Conference on Climate Change: Technology Development & Transfer,” tells JYOTI MALHOTRA that India should be a little bit more ‘flexible and mature’ in the global climate change talks. |
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