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Q&A: Devi Prasad Tripathi, chief spokesman, NCP

'Dualism has not taken place'

Sreelatha Menon: Smart cards get smarter

Govt health scheme begins pilot projects on free out patient services with its smart insurance cards

Negative List basis of Service Taxation

Can liaison office generate taxable income?

Weaving a friendship

Trade concessions to Bangladesh are good economics and diplomacy

Work with stakeholders

Sanjaya Baru: Is the feasible also reachable?

The 12th Five-Year Plan approach points to some 'old blocks' to a new, 'reasonable' growth target

Abheek Barua & Shivom Chakravarti: A promise of liquidity

Whilet the Fed has emphasised the need to get America's fiscal act together, it has not ruled out the possibility of more monetary easing

Services tax benchmark should be 'nil list'

Downtrend may extend to Sept settlement

N Chandra Mohan: From Bangladesh to Bimstec

Closer India-Bangladesh ties will help in the creation of a Bay of Bengal community

The Reddy land mine

But the law must be quick to take its course

Abheek Barua: The tale of two giants

America's economic prospects are ominously reminiscent of Japan's in the 1990s

Federal foreign policy

Mamata Banerjee has raised an important point

Mr Chaudhuri's formula

Let the market determine sugar and ethanol prices

M J Antony: Ducking judgments

Governments cannot take the legislative route after failing in courts

Rethinking rupee

RBI has let the market be, but should it?

Encashing democracy

Cash for votes and votes for cash

Shankar Acharya: Twelfth Plan approach

Growth projections outlined in the approach paper may be overly optimistic

B K Chaturvedi: Corruption: Myth and reality

We cannot blame economic liberalisation for its proliferation neither can we expect any single measure to rid our society of it