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Is DTC being revised under pressure?

Arvind Subramanian: The G20 and 'Chermany'

The grouping has influenced China, but Germany will be more difficult

Subir Roy: Let's build a few Chandigarhs

If you can find the space to build a city for a million, then planned sequencing and incentives can change geography in five years

Better late than never

GoM's views a mix of humanism, pragmatism and politics

Save Amul, India's pride

MD's resignation over political interference bodes ill

Latha Jishnu: An odd royalty calculus

Monsanto's way of calculating royalty on its Bt cotton seeds raises serious questions about how tenable it is

G Balachandran: Limits to changes in nuclear liability bill

Any Indian Bill that goes beyond global conventions on supplier liability will result in denial of nuclear equipment by foreign suppliers

The crowding-in effect

Government's resource mobilisation may be squeezing liquidity

Food, fuel and farms

Food security requires comprehensive planning

Shankar Acharya: Retreat of the Master?

Within a few short months, Keynesian fiscal stimuli went out of fashion and fiscal austerity has become the new mantra

Neha Malik: The case for sub-base rate lending

Even though the base rate concept is likely to make the system transparent, it may fail to ensure proper transmission of changes in key policy rates

Shyamal Majumdar: Privatise employment exchanges

That's still wishful thinking even though Gujarat's experience in public-private initiatives has been encouraging

Where are the markets going?

Faith without exemption

While serving God, render unto Caesar his due

The other Justice Hegde

Karnataka's lok ayukta has spoken for millions

Michael Pinto: Port of no call

The UPA government's policy initiatives for maritime port development have been a non-starter

Jamal Mecklai: Don't cry for me, Maradona

Messi will continue to scintillate, Argentina will beat Brazil in the finals 3-1 and Maradona will run through Buenos Aires naked, as he has promised

K Natwar Singh: A passage to Israel

Politely but frankly, I put it to my Israeli interlocutors that Israel¿s survival was not in question. Its invincibility was

Aditi Phadnis: How developed is Bihar, really?

This is what its people will evaluate while voting in the assembly polls

Neha Chowdhry: The global governing board

Toronto will see the rising profile of emerging economies in the G20