P>In February 2006, the software industry body Nasscom was bullish when it teamed up with McKinsey, the consulting firm, to forecast that software exports would surpass $60 billion by March 2010, thereby updating its original target of $50 billion by December 2008.

Editorial: Beyond the IT majors

Business Standard

P>The promoters of Ranbaxy Laboratories are not the first to sell out of their company (others have gone before them, like Ramesh Chauhan of Parle and Analjit Singh of Max), nor will they be the last.

Editorial: Clear-headed decision

P>The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised the repo rate (at which it lends money to banks, against securities) by 25 basis points to 8 per cent on Wednesday evening.

Editorial: Money gets costlier

P>It has been reported that the BJP accepted $2,500 (about Rs 1 lakh) as a donation from the Dow Chemicals Company, which owns Union Carbide, the company from whose premises in Bhopal highly poisonous gas leaked in December 1984, killing over 3,000 and maiming thousands more.

Editorial: The Obama example

P>The reports of farmers&#39; unrest on account of a fertiliser scarcity in several states, at a time when kharif crop sowing has already begun, raise troubling questions.

Editorial: Origins of the crisis

P>For four years, Mr Chidambaram was viewed as a finance minister who was steadfastly committed to fiscal discipline.

Editorial: End this window-dressing

P>The government raised the procurement price for paddy last week, from Rs 645 per quintal for common varieties to Rs 850 per quintal.

Editorial: Paddy politics

P>The Reserve Bank action on Sahara means that, over time, the company will cease to be a non-banking financial company, and morph into a diversified group that is known for a variety of other businesses.

Editorial: Sahara`s future

P>The government should get into discussions with the world's leading car manufacturers, almost all of whom have now set up (or are setting up) shop in India, to encourage the local production of cars that run on dual fuels or even entirely on fuel cells.

Editorial: Pushing hybrids

&nbsp;India has been governed since 1996 by coalitions of one sort or another. Since everyone expects that India will be run by coalitions for the foreseeable future, it is useful to take stock and review the lessons on offer.

Editorial: Lessons of coalition rule

P>Has Malvinder Singh truly freed Ranbaxy from risk by opting for an out-of-court settlement with Pfizer over Lipitor as he has claimed? The markets and analysts certainly thought otherwise.

Editorial: Risky de-risking

&nbsp;Mr. Chidambaram&#39;s remarks made at the OPEC meeting over the weekend deserve serious attention.

Editorial: Towards collective solutions

P>The decision by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hike both the repo rate and the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 50 basis points on Tuesday would have come as a surprise to most people, not because the RBI did something but because of the strength of the move.

Editorial: Forcing a slowdown

P>The downturn in the economy and the sharp uptick in oil prices are ruining the outlook for many industries, none more so than the airline business in which more than half of all operating costs are accounted for by aviation turbine fuel, or ATF.

Editorial: Grounding aviation

P>The significance of Idea Cellular&#39;s acquisition of Spice, from a telecom market perspective, is that Spice is among the last of the small stand-alone operators of telephone services in the country.

Editorial: Telecom consolidation

&nbsp;Cricket has long been a national obsession. Until recently, winning was not.

Editorial: The drought after 1983

P>After pushing the once-thriving fertiliser industry to the brink of collapse through prolonged policy stasis, the government has finally taken some sensible decisions which will alleviate some of the distress caused to fertiliser companies.

Editorial: Good on the small issues

P>Even as global food prices sizzle, in part because of the large-scale conversion of food crops into bio-fuels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has surprised many observers by advocating further promotion of these non-fossil auto fuels.

Editorial: Are bio-fuels the answer?

P>The US Federal Reserve Board has cut the benchmark federal funds rate, at which banks borrow overnight from each other, by 25 basis points to 2 per cent on April 30.

Editorial: Fin de siecle?

P>It is strange that it should take well over a year for the Abhijit Sen committee on futures trading to conclude that it has nothing conclusive to report.

Editorial: Much ado about nothing

P>What the global food scarcity has done is make clear the inevitability of genetically modified (GM) crops, however controversial they may be.

Editorial: Turning to GM

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