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T N Ninan

T N Ninan

T N Ninan

T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard, as well as former executive editor of India Today. He has been president of the Editors Guild of India, chairman of Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication, and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the B D Goenka award for excellence in journalism.

T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard, as well as former executive editor of India Today. He has been president of the Editors Guild of India, chairman of Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication, and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the B D Goenka award for excellence in journalism.

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Page 21 - T N Ninan

The trust factor

India has eaten into its social capital, and undermined growth

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Updated On : 16 Mar 2013 | 11:42 AM IST

Not just suicides

Indian agriculture is a success story too

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Updated On : 08 Mar 2013 | 11:26 PM IST

T N Ninan: What price growth?

The 12th Plan's ambitions are best set aside

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Updated On : 01 Mar 2013 | 9:40 PM IST

T N Ninan: Nine years later…

The FM is left with a salvage job

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Updated On : 22 Feb 2013 | 11:55 PM IST

T N Ninan: Let deals go through

Penalties on suppliers doing pay-offs should be financial

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Updated On : 15 Feb 2013 | 9:44 PM IST

T N Ninan: Commanding the spotlight

Mr Modi's compelling rise is only half done

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Updated On : 09 Feb 2013 | 12:50 AM IST

T N Ninan: Tax pre-emption

The Indian stock market came to life 40 years ago when a new law forced international companies to list on Indian stock exchanges. If companies take the opposite step now, it is bad news

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Updated On : 06 Feb 2013 | 8:02 AM IST

T N Ninan: India as 'aid' giver

India now ranks among the bigger aid donors in the world, when ranked as a percentage of GDP and also in terms of the total money on offer

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Updated On : 06 Feb 2013 | 7:40 AM IST

T N Ninan: The risk from abroad

While attention has been paid to interest rates and industrial revival, our external vulnerability could be the bigger problem

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 8:35 PM IST

T N Ninan: Tightening belts

Govt credibility on reform grows, but beware of quick fixes

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 8:35 PM IST

T N Ninan: Moving on wheels

Every economy that has acquired momentum has established a strong car industry - Japan, Korea and China being the examples in Asia

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 8:35 PM IST

T N Ninan: The 'Ugly Indian'?

Companies get into all manner of scrapes in the crony-capitalist business environment at home, but continue doing business, whereas the consequences in another country are quite different

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

T N Ninan: Unhappy pairings

Do corruption levels mirror per capita income levels, just as the United Nations' human development index does? So it would seem from Transparency International's latest list

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

T N Ninan: Learn from Singapore

If the honest component of our top taxpayers is doing more than its bit, why can't the revenue dept show some appreciation?

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

T N Ninan: Ficci's choice

The person who heads a "chamber of commerce", i.e. its president, would lead the charge on all issues, including (one presumes) the lawful and ethical conduct of business

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

A change of mood

The country's mood at the end of 2012 is markedly different from that at the end of 2011. Bread and butter issues, not corruption, have become the focus of attention

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

T N Ninan: Real news ignored

Too little attention has been given to the most important claim made at the NDC meeting that poverty numbers have fallen by about two percentage points annually since 2004-05

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

T N Ninan: Political penalties

When it comes to politics, there seems to be no pattern to the period that must pass before sufficient penance is considered to have been done

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 6:49 PM IST

T N Ninan: Who next?

If Mr Gandhi opts out, and if Manmohan Singh is considered too old to continue, it is increasingly obvious that the Congress candidate will have to be Chidambaram

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 6:49 PM IST

T N Ninan: The vital signs

The twin deficits and inflation level are stubbornly high despite the government's ministrations

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 6:49 PM IST