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Pratip Kar: The global market turmoil & Clause 49
Governance will be the bulwark for companies and governments when the world?s financial markets are in crisis
Surinder Sud: Give food some thought
Reforms in the supply-chain system can help India tackle the demand-supply mismatch in essential food items
Watch out for Europe
Better leadership and management needed in EU and US
Sanjeev Sanyal: Can Asian consumers replace the West?
Asia may have the capability but the transition will be painful
Ajai Shukla: Remembering India's capitulation on Tibet
India's submissive attitude on Tibet has allowed China to subjugate the plateau region unopposed
Auditing the auditors
Asking questions does not amount to passing judgements
The FM's welcome slip
Subsidising diesel consumption will harm energy security
Rajeev Malik: Introspection time for RBI
The central bank's ill-timed policy decisions do not bode well for the country's economic growth
A K Bhattacharya: The man who served three PMs
BG Deshmukh, who died last Sunday, made a mark as a bureaucrat with a difference
M J Antony: Power poaching games
The executive and courts are tempted to make use of quasi-judicial powers to solve disputes, though the Constitution does not permit it
Razeen Sally: European twilight, Asian sunrise
Even as the West is having to adopt illiberal economic policies, the Western tradition of economic freedom is gaining popularity in Asia
Indicus Analytics: It's elementary
Wide disparities across states in pupil teacher ratio do not augur well for the future of primary education in India
Eleventh-hour wisdom
The government should decide early on important appointments
Waves of insecurity
Taxpayers fund a non-functional maritime security system
Shankar Acharya: India - before and after global crisis
The country's recent macroeconomic performance remains well below pre-financial crisis levels
Ajit Balakrishnan: S&P downgrade's secret peril
Amid such widespread distrust of rating agencies, how come global financial markets have reacted so violently in response to dowgrade by S&P?
Barun Roy: A bridge lesson for Mamata
Building more bridges across the Hooghly is important if Kolkata is to get a makeover