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

Business Standard

P>The numbers for the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the week ending April 19, released last Friday, will undoubtedly add to the government's headaches on the inflation front.

Editorial: Persistent pressure

P>The ad hoc nature of government policy towards airports is no longer a joke, since it has played havoc with both passengers who have to traverse large distances, and those who have invested in new airports on the basis of contractual commitments.

Editorial: Flights of ad hocism

P>Over the past few days, there seems to be a widening sense of normalcy returning to the US economy.

Editorial: Better, not normal

&nbsp;It was always a one-sided marriage proposal. Software giant Microsoft had, a year back, tried to acquire Yahoo in a bid to compete with Google, but was spurned.

Editorial: Lost in the search

P>The recent bid by Thailand and Cambodia to revive the long-dormant proposal for creating an Opec-like cartel of five rice-exporting countries of South-east Asia is both ill-timed and ill-advised; indeed, prima facie, the idea is unworkable.

Editorial: Unworkable cartel

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>It is easy to interpret the Supreme Court&#39;s reinstatement of P Venugopal as the director of the New Delhi-based All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as a slap in the face of Health Minister A Ramadoss.

Editorial: Let the rascals bloom

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;The cyclone in Myanmar has killed 37,000 people. Another 1.5 million have been rendered homeless.

Editorial: General constitution

P>After last Friday&#39;s inflation numbers indicated that the rate had risen to a near-four-year high of 7.61 per cent, Monday&#39;s announcement of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers for March 2008 add to the pall of gloom rapidly spreading over the economy.

Editorial: The spectre of stagflation

P>The ill-advised ban on futures trading in four more agricultural commodities (rubber, gram, soya oil and potato), following similar action earlier against an earlier set of four commodities (wheat, rice, urad and tur), has been widely criticised, as should have been expected.

Editorial: Senseless ban

P>It may be only a matter of time before India&#39;s state-owned oil marketing firms run out of the cash they need to import crude oil.

Editorial: A way out of the impasse

P>The 2008 edition of the World Competitiveness Yearbook, an annual publication of the Swiss business school IMD, was released last week.

Editorial: The right lessons

P>With the procurement of both wheat and rice set to hit new highs this year, the worries over the country&#39;s food security seem to be over.

Editorial: Procurement lessons

P>Maharashtra Finance Minister Jayant Patil&#39;s proposal to set up an exclusive club of progressive states to act as a pressure group for their developmental needs is an interesting one.

Editorial: Redoing fiscal federalism

P>The new negotiating texts on agriculture and industrial products, issued by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), leave nobody very satisfied and, hence, may not serve the intended purpose of ending the stalemate in the Doha round of global trade talks.

Business Standard: Forcing the issue

P>The Supreme Court&#39;s direction to the government to consider alternative routes for the Sethusamudram canal project seems well-intended in view of the intense controversy that this project has got enmeshed in.

Business Standard: Well-intended direction

P>The State Bank of India (SBI) may have beaten a hasty retreat on its decision to stop financing tractors and other farm implements under mounting political pressure, but the issues that this aborted move has exposed remain valid and need to be debated.

Editorial: Agriculture at stake

P>The Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission&#39;s (DSCDRC) decision to fine mobile phone firm Vodafone Rs 50 lakh for offering prizes of gold coins and a Maruti SX4 as part of a promotional scheme is something all marketers in the country would do well to pay attention to.

Editorial: Marketers beware

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