Page 86 - Economy Interviews
Q&A: Amit Mitra, Ficci secretary-general
'Left squandered funds, sabotaged state elections'
Q&A: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, MD, World Bank
'The solution to food shortage is to invest long term in agriculture'
Q&A: Shekhar Shah, Director General, NCAER
The more competition between think tanks for ideas and analysis, the better
Q&A: Srikant Jena, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers
'There's an important role for the public sector in pharma policy'
Q&A: P I Suvrathan, Chairperson, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
'Speed of case disposal will pick up under new food safety rules'
Q&A: C P Joshi, Union minister, Road transport & highways
'We'd like some new thinking in NHAI'
Q&A: G Parameshwar, Karnataka Congress President
'The Karnataka government is illegitimate'
Q&A: P Chidambaram, Home Minister
'We owe an apology to no one for error in terror list'
Q&A: Rajiv Kumar, Secretary General, Ficci
'We only talk of second-generation reforms these must be implemented'
Q&A: Sachin Ahir, Maharashtra Minister of State for Housing
'Builders and developers cannot dictate policies to the government'
Q&A: Arvind Virmani, Executive Director, IMF
'Probability of IMF MD from a developing country very low'
Q&A: Bernhard Steinruecke, Director-General, IGCC
'Indian market still has entry barriers'
Q&A: Vladimir Kashchenko, Atomenergomash
'Atomenergomash to form India JV by April 2011'
Q&A: Rishad Bathiudeen, LTTE
'We will focus on realising the potential of trade agreements'
Q&A: Stephen Cohen, US scholar
'US, India need to engage with ideas at every level'
Sreelatha Menon: Being health smart
Kerala has used the Centre's Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the advantage of its government hospitals
Q&A: Timothy Geithner, US Treasury Secretary
'Things are gradually getting stronger'
Q&A: Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister-elect, Maharashtra
'I'll try to give a clean, transparent government to the people'