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Europe's kids are all right
Daniel Gros

Activist responses to alarmism about youth unemployment in Europe are misguided

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Woman smarter?
Kanika Datta

The gender diversity exercise in the workplace is so pro forma as to make a mockery of the concept

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The last petrol station before Bali
T S Vishwanath

The success of the Ministerial meeting depends on the WTO members putting together the broad contours of a deal by August

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Euro banks: The elephants in the room
Kunal Kumar Kundu

With non-performing loans rising, European banks may be forced to reduce their India exposure, putting more pressure on the rupee

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Pushing the wrong way

Government must not hold up EU-India FTA further

Fixing fertility

Keep focus on mother and child care

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Hit and miss
Dominic Elliott


UK banking report pulls more punches than it lands

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Don't be(gin) evil?
Richard Beales


Google shareholders get modest future-proofing

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Preach to the non-choir
Viktoria Dendrinou


G-8 shouldn't just act on tax - it should preach

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Back track to Bansal

Every organisation takes a while to get over a controversy and the railway ministry is no exception after its last minister Pawan Kumar Bansal ...

Secrecy in expose

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has put out an extensive database of offshore entities set up in tax havens. Thousands ...

RBI's star power

An applicant for a banking licence was recently asked what date he planned to submit the papers (applications need to be in before July 1). ...

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Letters: Walkable cities

This refers to Sunita Narain's column "A few pedestrian questions" (Down To Earth, June 17). It is said walking helps people improve their ...

Letters: Advisory overkill

This refers to T N Ninan's column "Where are the doers?" (Weekend Ruminations, June 15). A similar situation occurred during former UK Prime ...

Letters: The online business

The report "Online retailers: Amazon versus Flipkart versus eBay" (June 17) focuses only on the online price differential. For a retiree who ...

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Corporate governance failure at Ranbaxy?
Asish K Bhattacharyya

It is unlikely that independent directors on Ranbaxy Board had no exposure to corporate governance models

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Similar contracts can have different taxes
Vivek Mishra

Misunderstanding between contract for sale and contract for works & material can affect amount of actual taxation

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Bank payment obligations vital for international trade
TNC Rajagopalan

Time for importers, exporters to get familiar with the new international transaction mechanism

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CLB can compound offence
M J Antony

The Supreme Court has ruled that prior permission of the criminal court is not necessary for compounding an offence under the Companies Act when ...

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Careful what you wish for in regulations
Somasekhar Sundaresan

Multi-level marketing schemes are about taking informed greedy positions

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Insurance valuation: A good benchmark for transfer pricing
H P Agrawal

Irrespective of the difficulties, taxpayers have to comply with the transfer pricing regulations and determine the arm's length price

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Competition eyeing Maruti Suzuki's sweet spot

Honda's Amaze has received 22,000 bookings, nearly 30% of Maruti's annual sales of Dzire

Regulatory environment improving for telcos

Trai lowering of roaming tariffs likely to have negligible impact on financials as existing headline tariffs are lower

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Will L K Advani's resignation weaken BJP's poll prospects in 2014?