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Pranay Kotasthane: The lure of legalising bilateral disputes

The Permanent Court of Arbitration verdict on the India-Bangladesh maritime dispute, which largely upholds the Bangladeshi claim, has important lessons for India's Saarc policy

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Welcoming FDI in news

Allowing foreign investment will push media firms to clean up their act and put in place systems that will allow good journalism to flourish

Indira Rajaraman: Dismantling food inflation

The most important features of the Union and Rail Budgets for 2014-15 are the micro-interventions that address food inflation

True democracy

Let Congress chief ministers be internally elected

No patchwork reform

Labour law overhaul must happen at the Centre

Mission to Mars

So far, no nation has been able to enter the planet's orbit in the maiden attempt. Will India's MOM be the first?

Why the monsoon numbers hide reality

Because the ecology of various regions differs, it is silly to club them all under one countrywide average number

N S Nigam: The 'Vodafone' amendment is more than a retrospective issue

The text of the Income tax amendment is so wide and so riddled with ambiguities that it deserves to be scrapped for those reasons alone

Surinder Sud: The nitty-gritty of nanotech

This technology has potential uses in many sectors but India needs to invest more in R&D to reap the benefits of this fantastic science

Ajai Shukla: Midwifing new aircraft

Devesh Kapur, T V Somanathan & Arvind Subramanian: Land-shackled - II

The authors prescribe the cures for India's problems with land

IT kicks off

Global economic hopes lead IT firms to think positive

Strategic mistake

Lack of vision behind India's stand on trade facilitation

Only 'gori-chitti' girls can flirt with Virat Kohli

The 'Comedy Nights with Kapil' brand of colour bias

Abheek Barua: The rising vulnerability of emerging markets

Emerging markets could be affected by a combination of lower liquidity and higher dollar interest rates caused by a hike in the US Fed funds rate

Devesh Kapur, T V Somanathan & Arvind Subramanian: Land-shackled - I

In the first of a two-part series, the authors diagnose India's problem with land

Praveen Chakravarty & T V Somanathan: Why derivatives are a Pyrrhic triumph for our equity markets

The expansion in equity market volumes is driven by retail speculators indulging in heavy trading of complex derivatives that are economically unproductive

Differentiating to include

Reserve Bank of India works on connecting with the unbanked

A murky barrel

Petroleum pricing needs reform and transparency

B Dasarath Reddy: Turf war between Andhra and Telangana

Many of the current disputes are the same that had led to bifurcation