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Interview: Piyush Goyal

‘There is no intention to denationalise Coal India’

ON September 7, 2014, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy, described his first 100 days

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Layoffs and lessons

The furore over TCS’ efforts to terminate a large number of its employees in order to cut costs brings to the fore the fact that the era of big growth

The economic transition

The thirty years since Frontline came into existence have been ones in which the structure of the economy and its growth dynamics have been fundamenta

Crime and empire

BOOK buyers in the United States have obviously been lapping up the hardback authored by John Perkins titled

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Going to the IMF

DR Ashok Mitra, former Finance Minister of West Bengal, has worked and contributed on a variety of key economic issues such as the share of wa

November 6, 1998

Nobel for Amartya Sen

ON October 14 at about 5-15 a.m., the telephone rang in Amartya Sen’s hotel room in New York. Sen, who was in New York to speak at the United Nations

August 26, 2011

Roots of corruption

THE recent exclusive focus on corruption has, perhaps inadvertently, diverted attention from the more basic phenomenon which underlies it, namely a pr

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FOR : FRONTLINE , CHENNAI ( KIND ATTN : MR. VIJAYSHANKAR , DEPUTY EDITOR / WITH STORIES ON FARMER'S SUICIDES BY MR. V.SRIDHAR ) HYDERABAD : --The mood of the villagers at Chilpur Village of Station Ghanpur Mandal in Warangal , where Sunka Mallesh died ---PHOTO: P.V.SIVAKUMAR./08-06-2004

An agrarian tragedy

A TRAGEDY of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. According to the Andhra Pradesh Ryothu Sangham, close to 300 peasants in the St

The feel good factory

This story, part of the Cover feature seeking to debunk the National Democratic Alliance government's "India Shining" campaign ahead of the general el

FILE - This is a Sunday, June 6, 1982 file photo of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the lunch table, Sunday, June 6, 1982 at the Palace of Versailles, France, following the first session of the second days summit meeting. Margaret Thatcher felt betrayed by close ally Ronald Reagan over the Falkland Islands, according to newly released papers that reveal how isolated Britain's prime minister was in her determination to repel the Argentine invasion by force. When Argentina seized the British territory off the South American coast in April 1982, Thatcher's government presented a united front in public.(AP Photo/ File)

GATT and its portents

EVEN as 115 Trade Ministers, comfortable in the solidarity of an exclusive club, toasted one another on April 15 in Marrakesh, just off the Mediterran

Bad news in good days

THE Bharatiya Janata Party under Narendra Modi has by and large been favoured by fortune. This is reflected not just in the fact that in the parliamen

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaks during a news conference to announce the bank's interest rate decision in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The European Central Bank unexpectedly cut interest rates at today's decision to spur economic growth and stave off the threat of deflation. Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Mario Draghi

Passing the buck

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has been railing against the monetary authorities in the developed economies for some time now. Initiall