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Much ado about FDI

Cities' cycles

The author explains what India can learn from Detroit

Dead but dangerous

Electronic waste is piling up across India

Sky rocketing 'promoter director' salaries continues to haunt shareholders

Independent directors fail to keep a check on rising promoter salaries

Smells like marketing

You may wonder if aromatherapy really works, but marketers seem pretty certain that ambient odour equals increase in sales

Gold and the CAD

Along with short-term measures to curb gold imports, address the structural drivers of the demand for gold

From Dhishoom to Banksters

A stronger partnership

What Shinzo Abe's victory means for India

Energy ties to top agenda if Manmohan meets Pakistan PM in September

Talks on connecting the Punjab electricity grid to Pakistan's Punjab are likely to be held between PMs

Exchange rate issues in export

The important matter of Mr Ramadorai

The senior Tata Group executive's appointment as NSDC chairman raises the vital question of conflict of interest

China grows down

The country needs to stop targeting high GDP growth and start working towards productivity increases

Deconstructing RBI's strategy

Measures to defend the rupee have created another set of problems

An unhealthy price for gas

The increase in natural gas prices could have significant implications for public health

Slow but steady

Direct transfers must be neither hurried nor abandoned

Complements, not substitutes

Poverty numbers show growth and equity go together

'His incarceration, and martyrdom, are now part of history'

Upwardly mobile among friends

Power of populism in Rajasthan

Ashok Gehlot may have cracked the anti-incumbency bogey to help the Congress

BJP's time machine

Amit Shah declared the party would build a 'grand temple' in Ayodhya. The gazillion new voters born after December 6, 1992, Googled 'Ayodhya temple' and decided that the BJP is the party of the future