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Flight to safety
Air travel in India has actually become safer
Ajit Ranade: Competition and overcrowding
Too much competition has its problems, but there is no better alternative
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: New CEOs, old problems
Can the television industry's new generation work at solving its old problems?
A K Bhattacharya: No headlines here
Singh's press conference was workmanlike and didn't seek to make any grand statements
Manmohan's decade
Four more years to shape his legacy
Arvind Subramanian: Asia, Europe and the fund
Solvent, strong Asia must force weakened Europe to agree to IMF reforms
Subir Roy: Minds meet on facing the urban tsunami
Since 70-80%of the urban India that is going to be there is yet to be built, with good sense it can be built right
Part III: Applying Goods and Services Tax to financial sector is challenging
IMF has recommended a Financial Activities Tax to be levied on the sum of profits and remuneration of financial institutions
M J Antony: Sidestepping judgments
Relaunch of a defective law with changes suggested by the court is the cordial course for lawmakers
Part IV: GST flawed without inclusion of real estate
Multiple tax at both Centre and State, such as service tax on construction services and state VAT on building material used in a works contract
Engineering for others
Indian firms need to own products
The genome genie
Synthetic biology needs intelligent regulation
Martin Feldstein: Chronicle of a crisis foretold
A single currency or fixed exchange rate is not necessary for trade to flourish
Kanika Datta: Walking the talk
Why should a section of Air India's employees consider their company different?
Latha Jishnu: Who's afraid of Synthia?
Venter's patent application for his synthetic cell creation has set off a frenzied debate on monopolies in genetic research