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Price control problems

Get drug procurement right, boost domestic production

Have a trade strategy

But government should keep the China angle in mind

Defence purchases need speeding up

Govt must prioritise defence acquisitions

Global financial alternatives

New Asian bank to increase India's funding options

A long-expected battle

Indian publishers are befuddled by online retail

India Inc continues to struggle

Early bird second-quarter results are not cheering

Bidding adieu to 2070

A year that saw animal spirits revive

Forced mergers are wrong

Govt violates principle of limited liability

Beware of fiscal complacency

Other challenges for India's deficit besides oil subsidies

Half-baked energy reforms

Reform for LPG, but coal order ignores need for regulation

Banks or farmers?

Worrying implications of a judgment on sugar

Global slowdown presents mixed bag for India

How a global slowdown could help, and hurt, India

High-flyers struggle

The information technology outlook has just lost some sheen

Lessons from two states

BJP might decide to be more cautious with local allies

Half step forward

Follow-up reforms needed after diesel decontrol, gas price hike

Sound and fury

Health ministry's lopsided focus on noisy firecrackers

Modi's labour reforms not quite enough

Labour sector needs bigger reform than the PM revealed

Enabling inflation targeting

Real government action on inflation containment still awaited

Weather office scores

But coastal Andhra must rebuild itself cyclone-proof

Manage a depreciation

Weak global economy, strong rupee are both hurting India