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Unfinished business
IT WAS inevitable that the meeting of G8 at Gleneagles, Scotland, to which India and four other countries — Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa — were special invitees, was overshadowed by the serial bomb blasts in London. The ... More

WIDE CANVAS


Making aid to Africa work
It is Africa's actions and leadership that will be the most important determinant of progress in generating an economic resurgence, advancing living standards and taking forward the fight against poverty. The more effective the action taken by Africa itself, the stronger the case for support from outside it. Partnership must be constructed around Africa's leadership. More

ON THE MOVE


Kolkata Dock to re-build ship-breaking potential
THE Kolkata Port Trust, its Chairman has been quoted as saying, is keen that ship-breaking activity develops within the Kolkata Dock System (KDS). The port will provide the necessary facilities, the Chairman has said. This is not for the first ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW


Hurricane may cloud sentiment!
This week, if the market goes in for a correction in the benchmark indices, downside, however, seems limited. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE


No active following for passively managed funds
IF you are an investor in mutual funds in India, chances are you have not invested in index funds at all. Instead, you would have applied your mind solely to diversified equity funds, ones that aim at outperforming their benchmarks and not mirror ... More

ADR WATCH


ICICI Bank, VSNL hit 52-week high
BRAVING the terrorist attack in London and the surging oil price, the US benchmarks scored handsome gains on the back of positive reports such as growth in employment, factory orders and the services industry. The S&P-500 advanced 1.5 per cent .. More

VISION 2020


Impoverished in innovation
India and its institutions have the ability to provide world-class undergraduate education, and train highly skilled managers and designers. However, they cannot claim to have the ability to organise cutting-edge research; in innovation and invention we still lag behind, says P. V. Indiresan. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED


Advances, declines and potential brakes
CALL it witch-hunt or whatever, but it was sheer curiosity that let me hit the site www.lib.msu.edu and see a page titled `Declassified Documents and Other Sources for Secrets'. From there, a link takes me to ... More

RANDOM WALK


A hard FACT
LAST week saw a change of guard at what many still regard as the classical icon of the industrial landscape of Kerala - the Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT), incorporated in 1943 and set up as India's first large-scale ... More

CHAT


Be careful what you set your heart upon
Jogin was still recovering from the repeated visuals on the BBC, and Dakshinamoorthy thought he could almost hear the ‘bugle’ on ‘ideological erosion’. Sridevi was trying to understand the Dabhol matter. But Khan pulled them all in for the weekly ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE


Individuals now reach their global customers
IT IS not easy to be an entrepreneur. If you are creative enough to have a product or service you think is wanted by customers, reaching them becomes a major issue. Some entrepreneurs look for safety and turn themselves ... More


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