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Govt should leave airfares to mark

Air travel is not a poor man's necessity and it is no business of the government to fix fares

Simply infusing more funds won't solve problems of PSBs

NPAs are an open wound, from which the bleeding needs to be stopped before more capital is transfused

Greek crisis may create an opportunity for long-term investors in India

Neither India nor China will be be badly affected by Grexit in fundamental terms

A managed Grexit

Greece and the 'troika' must accept reality

Room for rebels?

Lessons from the fate that befell rebel BJP CMs

IIMs' toughest case

Avoid making them handmaidens of the HRD ministry

BJP must not allow charges against ministers to derail Parliament session

Silence from the ruling party on the allegations is arming a feckless opposition with the weapons to disrupt Parliament

Local bodies can't be ignored in schemes for urban housing, infrastructure

Most hurdles in the way of sufficient supply of housing for the poor have been created by the states and the urban local bodies

Regulations for start-ups need to be more relaxed

Sebi has kept out retail investors for the time being, which may be too heavy-handed a regulation

Finally US might be restarting conversation on racism

For long, US has ducked the hard questions about race and power

Monsoon woes: Antiquated drainage can't handle new pressures

Reasons for recurring rain-related problems are many apart from the apathy and inefficiency of the civic bodies

Recapitalisation of PSU banks must be based on performance

It is far more efficient to give more capital to each of a few relatively healthy banks than to spread it thin over all of them

India needs to manage effects of radicalism, violence in West Asia

When it comes to foreign policy, it must be remembered that millions of Indians live and work in West Asia

A new Reliance: Can Mukesh Ambani pull off a transformation?

At the heart of one of the biggest transformations in India's corporate history lies a plan to offer super-fast broadband services

Humanitarian crisis: 11 mn people displaced in 2014

The primary source is Syria along with Iraq

A repeat of Emergency? It's not likely

One person and one party do not dominate the political landscape the way Indira Gandhi and the Congress did in the 1970s

Sporting vanities

Behind India's failure in football

Railway reform imperative

Focus on more investment to enhance capacity should be a priority

Policy shift to pulses

But concern about shortage of supply remains

Let rupee continue depreciating to deal with export malaise

Deeper problems of competitiveness continue to bedevil India's exports