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Pharma Chameleon
India being India, you have to fill out 17 different kinds of paperwork to join a library, but you can get serious medication from a pharmacy without a prescription
The A-Z of Lok Sabha Elections 2014
How the polls and our political leaders have added to our vocabulary
Shirish B Patel: Why urban planning is humbug
The goals in our development plans should focus on what people want, not what planners want
Devangshu Datta: It's in the 'super' genes
Gene-scrambling techniques developed in the synIII project could be used to make new synthetic strains of yeast and medicines
Madhukar Sabnavis: A confused society
Consumers are grappling with opposites
A confrontation averted
US softening stance on Special 301 is an opportunity for India
Royalty treatment
The ceiling on royalty payments urgently needs to be reinstated
Good chance of cement firms underperforming markets again
Cement outperformed the market in January-March, though the demand was weak across the construction industry
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Ashok Basu: Memo to the next regime - Turn on the lights
The listless administrative machinery urgently needs to be galvanised to revive the power sector. Here is a possible agenda to go about it
Shyam Ponappa: An infra road map
The author explains what should and should not be done by a new government in this crucial sector
May Day reflections
India's public policy has failed its job seekers
Time to share
Spectrum sharing will help the incipient telecom sector rebound
T S Vishwanath: Much ado about FDI in retail
Asean countries may be pressuring India to relax this policy but no bilateral investment obligations are being violated as a result; it's the power vested in the states that is worrying them
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Voting is trendy now
Exercising your franchise has now become a status symbol of nationalism and good citizenry
Daniel Gros: Restarting Ukraine's economy
Since Russia cannot be dislodged from Crimea, the challenge is to keep the rest of Ukraine united and to restart its economy