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The bluff must be called
One is tempted to take Phaneesh Murthy's claims with a bagful of salt
Ranbaxy's dark chapter
Why have Indian authorities woken up to the Ranbaxy case only now? The matter had been simmering for several years
What next for bonds?
There appears limited room for further gains
Sugar's still bitter
Decontrol was too partial to help
Of future shocks and global complexities
Having acquitted itself creditably in its first 25 years, India's first independent statutory regulator for the financial sector needs to ready itself for the intricacies of globally integrated market
South Asia: All in one
A unified community will help cross-border investments across nations
Dropping the cost
Let gas prices be benchmarked to coal
Foreign visits and the headlines
As recent European visits showed, public diplomacy is a struggle during bilateral summits
Best among equals
Profitable infra firms are complaining about being treated on par with loss making ones
The new neighbour
India should engage with Mr Sharif, but not without caution
Retrieving a year
UPA-II cannot afford to waste a year as a lame-duck govt
Not a dual power centre
The removal of the law and railway ministers could have been a display of the prime minister's ultimate sign of authority. But this was presented by the Congress as part of a joint decision taken by D
Demystifying China
Seeing a sinister design behind every Chinese utterance will only make it more difficult to negotiate a settlement
How deep is the malaise in the Indian Railways?
Only a fundamental overhaul of its archaic structure will boost transparency and curb corruption
Underperforming even in good times
The author compares India's boom years with East Asia's
The last rites of sick units
Workers wait long enough to get dues after liquidation proceedings
A shot of hope
India should once again be the world's vaccine capital