P>For eight successive years - between 1999-2000 and 2006-07 - the port at Visakhapatanam occupied the number one slot among the twelve major ports in the country.

A K Bhattacharya: Oil, oil, everywhere

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&nbsp;We don't demonstrate to get the partition undone. Why should Tibet be any different?
&nbsp;If we, in India, are still expected to empathise with the Tibetan cause, a long 49 years after the event, then we&#39;ve our thinking mixed up.

Barun Roy: An outlived issue

P>Arvind Panagariya's recent book, though remarkable, has been one-sided in some respects.

Adarsh Kishore: India - The emerging giant, or has it emerged?

P>The Indian political establishment, cutting across party lines, seems to become unduly piqued at the remarks from the US establishment attributing the current rise in food prices in part to higher consumption of food in developing countries like India and China.

Arvind Singhal: Misplaced Umbrage

P>The government is reportedly considering two significant changes in the way that it generates and reports key economic indices.

Editorial: Index improvements

P>It was on May 11, 10 years ago, that the then NDA government announced India&#39;s formal entry into the nuclear club, with a set of underground tests that were followed by two more a couple of days later.

Editorial: 10 years later

P>&#34A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance&#34: Jawaharlal Nehru.

Vishnu Saraf: Comparing the Incomparable

P>This requires the courage to push new approaches but even the Nobel Prize favours the cautious.

Sunita Narain: Change isn`t easy

P>A few days ago, the citizenry in Mukherjee Nagar, a middle-class neighbourhood of North Delhi, literally set fire to some power transmission and distribution equipment.

Devangshu Datta: Power to the People

&nbsp;Rahul's gesture may be something brutes and bullies might take some notice of.
&nbsp;No matter the sneers, Rahul Gandhi&#39;s gesture of dining at a Dalit village in Amethi was of undeniable symbolic value.

Sunanda K Datta-Ray: Rahul becomes Gandhi

P>Big agribusiness may boost crops temporarily, but wreaks environmental havoc over the long term.

Mira Kamdar: The threat of global food shortages

P>As political developments in our part of the world play out, it is reasonable to assume that terrorism will continue all over the region and civil aviation is an obvious &#34soft&#34 target.

Vijay Mathur: Tackling threats in the sky

P>Farmers form the largest chunk of consumers, but anti-inflationary steps don't take them into account.

Sreelatha Menon: Peanuts for the farmer

The recent advance ruling in the case of Harekrishna Developers has revived an issue which was settled by the Department about a year ago, after significant deliberations.

Service taxability of construction and sale of residential units

The Transfer Pricing regulations introduced in the Income-tax Act in 2001 are in fact under development stage.

Maintenance of documents for transfer pricing

For the last few weeks every one interested in corporate financial reporting is debating whether the fair value accounting of financial instruments creates undue volatility in reported earnings and has led to a credit crisis.

Fair-value reporting of financial instruments: Good or bad?

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (&#34Sebi&#34) has proposed to set up an Investors Protection and Education Fund (&#34Investor Fund&#34) to be used towards investor education, protection and to spread awareness.

Sebi Investor Fund could creatively raise money

The Supreme Court has held that an application to set aside an arbitration award could be heard by the court even if it is moved late provided there was sufficient ground to explain the delay.

Delayed appeal against arbitration award could be condoned: SC

P>There is no precedent to the Prime Minister personally chairing a meeting of one particular industry, in order to add weight to the government&#39;s request (or demand) that the industry hold its prices.

Editorial: Temporary relief

&nbsp;For some time, the rate of inflation measured week to week has been falling. 
&nbsp;The trouble with the recent brouhaha over inflation is that it seems to be based on impressions rather than facts.

Abheek Barua: Inflation - Myth, impression and reality

P>Why blame the petroleum minister for not hiking oil prices when no one else is arguing for market prices? 
P>Poor Ram Naik and Mani Shankar Aiyar! They got all the blame for messing up with oil prices and halting the reforms that had been initiated with the proposed dismantling of the administered pricing mechanism (APM) for oil products from April 2002.

A K Bhattacharya: Where are the reformers?

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