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TN Ninan is a former editor and chairman of Business Standard and has held several influential positions in journalism and media.
TN Ninan is a former editor and chairman of Business Standard and has held several influential positions in journalism and media.
Indian agriculture is a success story too
The 12th Plan's ambitions are best set aside
The FM is left with a salvage job
Penalties on suppliers doing pay-offs should be financial
Mr Modi's compelling rise is only half done
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
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
While attention has been paid to interest rates and industrial revival, our external vulnerability could be the bigger problem
Govt credibility on reform grows, but beware of quick fixes
Every economy that has acquired momentum has established a strong car industry - Japan, Korea and China being the examples in Asia
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
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
If the honest component of our top taxpayers is doing more than its bit, why can't the revenue dept show some appreciation?
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
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
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
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
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
The twin deficits and inflation level are stubbornly high despite the government's ministrations
It is time the deposit side of the equation got some attention when debating whether to drop lending rates