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Five-Year Plan: The difference between five and eight per cent

The crucial difference between the best and worst options in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan is private investment, not government spending

Places of patronage

Amethi, Raebareli get special treatment, but struggle

Too big to be saved

Europe's zombie banks are the continent's biggest problem

A tennis era ends

The game today is more impactful, the supporters more rabid, and the brand ambassadors are more translucent than what we are accustomed to

How much should a dosa cost?

Paradoxes about food

Food security partly lies in an effective storage system but there are too many vested interests in not developing one

Much ado about little

Many myths surround the new 'food security' law

Beverage hierarchy: It's a mugs game

The powerful village of Agunda

Infosys Q1: The good, the bad & the ugly

Look beyond the quarterly numbers and the devil is in the details

Thank God for the UPA

The government induces so much righteous anger that India's deeper structural problems go unexamined

Spurring associative thinking

Innovation can thrive only in a climate that encourages risk-taking

Red signals

Threatened railway strike shows problems with Indian unions

Not another meeting

Nothing short of deep reform will help manufacturing

Is Flipkart a speeding train without brakes?

Flipkart raises $200 mn from PE investors,enough to survive another year

Why finance ministry's 'belated stand' on gas price hike seems to be a eyewash

Finance Ministry proposes, Petroleum ministry disposes

Can a regulator be a promoter?

The stated objective of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill to 'promote' the safe use of modern biotechnology is a serious distortion of the need for regulation in this sphere

The modest food security Bill

Shrinking India

The decline in the rupee's value shows that the government's efforts to fix the economy have been too little, too late

Unfilled seats

The consequences of a quick expansion of the IITs