Setting prices alightV. SRIDHARThe sharp increase in petroleum product prices is unnecessary and threatens to stoke inflation.
More wheat in private handsV. SRIDHARThe decision to import wheat reflects the government's failure to procure enough wheat after the last harvest.
Market mayhemV. SRIDHARForeign institutional investors, who have a stranglehold on the stock markets, trigger the utter volatility of May
Child of all nationsV. SRIDHARPramoedya Ananta Toer, the great Indonesian writer, leaves a rich legacy that transcends the barriers of language.
A fraud exposedBY V. SRIDHARThe Securities and Exchange Board of India cracks the whip at the perpetrators of the Initial Public Offer scam.
To protect a benefitV. SRIDHAROver two lakh employees of the State Bank of India go on strike over the issue of pensions.
Big business at workV. SRIDHARWhile all eyes were on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, businessmen from both countries presented a wish list of reforms to the two governments.
Price hike in the pipelineV. SRIDHARThe Central government is clearly waiting for the Assembly elections to be over to increase the prices of petroleum products.
State and the economyV. SRIDHARState-directed Development: Political Power and Industrialisation in the Global Periphery by Atul Kohli, Cambridge University Press (first South Asian
The realities behind retailingV. SRIDHARTHE question of whether to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian retail trade is a fiercely contested and divisive one. Those lobbying in it
Standing by CubaV. SRIDHARThe Asia-Pacific Regional Cuba Solidarity Conference in Chennai concludes with a call to promote "multifaceted solidarity activities" with the sociali
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
