P>After China, India&#39;s has been the worst performing stock market in Asia this year, having dropped 36 per cent since January.

Editorial: Not yet cheap enough

Business Standard

P>The seventh round of auctions for oil and gas blocks under the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP VII, for short) should be considered a partial success.

Editorial: A public sector show

<P>The Marxists are about to make another mistake that they will live to regret  if they ever admit to any mistakes and therefore to any sense of regret.

Editorial: Getting it wrong again

&nbsp;Five years ago, Goldman Sachs came out with its Bric report. This underscored something that most felt was intuitively correct, but had never articulated succinctly, that the economic stars of the future were going to be Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Editorial: New Bric winners

P>When the government finally acted to raise petroleum prices modestly last month, one provocation was the danger of fuel shortages across the country.

Editorial: Subsidies vs supplies

P>The high price of oil is changing everything  for airlines and for their passengers.

Giovanni Bisignani: Failure to launch

P>There are many aphorisms available to describe the love affair that has started between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.

Editorial: From the frying pan...?

P>The defence ministry has finalised the new rulebook for India&#39;s arms procurement, the Defence Procurement Policy of 2008 (DPP-2008).

Editorial: Stuck

P>The US Securities and Exchange Commission&#39;s (SEC) report on its 10-month investigation into the manner in which rating agencies assessed structured financial products, and their role in the sub-prime crisis, makes for interesting reading.

Editorial: Rating the raters

P>In 1941, at the height of World War II, as a result of the sudden and massive increase in government procurement, and keeping in mind the ever-present danger of people dipping into the till, the British rulers set up a body called the Special Police Establishment to look into allegations of government corruption.

Editorial: I for Independence

P>Among the treasures that were moved secretly from Europe to the United States and helped finance Jewish entry into America&#39;s financial world, were paintings by the great masters.

Editorial: Indian art finds a market

P>Between 15 million and 20 million of India&#39;s 400-million strong work force have a retirement savings plan.

Editorial: Hope on pension reforms

P>When a committee tasked with deciding the pay hikes of public sector managers prefaces its report by saying that it hopes this is the last time any committee is set up to do the job, it is time to sit up and take notice.

Editorial: Public sector pay

&nbsp;Everyone knows that India faces a huge shortage of power. Now McKinsey, the consulting firm, has upped massively the estimate of new power capacity required to sustain rapid economic growth.

Editorial: Not powering along

P>Taxing products because they are deemed to be luxuries, or because the government wants to reduce their consumption, is an old gambit, and one which has usually not worked.

Editorial: Taxing cars

P>The Singh family's impending exit from Ranbaxy, India's largest domestic drug company, after agreeing to sell its 34.8 per cent shareholding to Japan's Daiichi Sankyo, will enrich it by close to Rs 10,000 crore.

Editorial: Few comeback kids

P>Between them, the two Ambani brothersMukesh and Anilmake up the world's wealthiest family, having pipped the Walton family (of Wal-Mart fame) to that distinction.

Editorial: Time to call a halt

P>People with a background in routine administrationwhere it makes little difference when the incumbent gives way to his or her successordo not often understand that specialised jobs and organisations require more careful planning and selection for the top jobs.

Editorial: Managing the transition

P>It is time for the government to say "Enough with pussy-footing", and go ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal, stymied for many months by a Left that refuses to recognise the national interest.

Editorial: Just sign

P>Is suppressing inflation the answer to an underlying problem, or is it better to bring the problem to the surface as the first step towards addressing its causes and effects? Everyone who is shocked by the 11 per cent rate of inflation (as measured by the wholesale price index) for the week ending June 7, needs to figure out whether the problem is the figure of 11 per cent (the highest in 13 years) or the ways to address macro-economic policy in an inherently inflationary situation.

Editorial: Looking beyond 11%

P>The latest AC Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence survey, of over 28,000 users of the internet in 51 countries, does not throw up any surprises, given the state of the world economy and the short-term outlook.

Editorial: A glass half full

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