How to control the economic impact of bird flu

A new strain

Business Standard

India must keep talking, while building more border roads

The road forward with China

Ignoring a crisis

Too many projections, too little scenario building

Wishful thinking?

The odd divergence of wholesale and consumer indices

Inflation vs inflation

Strange ways of promoting Abu Dhabi, at the cost of Delhi

A problematic hub

A unified agency is needed to tackle fraudulent deposit takers

Bengal's scourge

Opposition should learn from the 2G JPC fiasco

Debate, don't disrupt

The price of the Supreme Court's shutdown of mining

Never again

Slowing economic growth, a depreciating rupee, and a string of arms purchase scandals that tarnished the ministry of defence (MoD) and scuttled ongoing purchases of weaponry together made a powerful case for building rather than buying defence equipment for India's military. In the dozen years since defence production was opened to foreign direct investment (with a 26 per cent cap) and to private Indian companies, the MoD has published a series of limp policies that merely paid lip service to indigenisation. Successive Defence Procurement Procedures (DPPs) of 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011 took baby steps when giant strides were needed, creating despondency and mistrust within the private sector.The latest procurement policy, DPP-2013, which the MoD cleared on Saturday, is a dramatic departure. The new acquisition procedure explicitly recognises that India's private sector is as Indian as the public sector behemoths. Now the Tata group, Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Forge and a multitud

Defence Ministry comes to life

Lesson of Boston, Delhi - trust between people and police matters

The greatest weapon

Who'll buy commercial vehicles when manufacturing is frozen?

Nothing moving

Exports need free trade and reform, not old, bad schemes

No new ideas

Complaints should not derail India-EU FTA

Full speed ahead

New gas pricing formula defies economic rationality

A problematic move

Wooing investment

Gold, oil prices may bring only temporary relief

Not a solution

Congress can't follow Nitish Kumar's lead

Talk about governance

Public sector banks must take advantage of retirements

A missed opportunity?

Disappointing Infosys

IIP shows how difficult an industrial recovery will be

Stable but critical

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