The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 15, 2009

OPINION

PEOPLE: Paul Samuelson, RIP
In the coming days, reams will be written about Paul A. Samuelson who passed away on Sunday, aged 94. And not a single tribute will be an undeserved one, for if anyone can be called the father of modern economics, it ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Cloud over Islamic banking
When Dubai World decided to suspend payments on its $26 billion debt, among the loans involved was a $4.05 billion repayment on a $3.52 billion sukuk or Islamic bond issue. This presence of an instrument that has gained some prominence in ...

POLITICS: How to stir hornets' nests
If there is a Nobel Prize for dealing with a public issue in the worst possible manner, the Nobel Committee would have closed its eyes and handed it on a platter to the Government of India to universal approbation. If there is similarly a ...

EDITORIAL: Industry on a high
Industrial output data for October are thus far the most positive signal of the momentum in the economy's revival. At an overall average of 10.3 per cent, Indian industry seems to have posted the best performance since early this year when ...

LETTERS: Telangana politics
This article ‘Nineteenth Century politics over Telangana' ( Business Line, December 12) is biased on several counts. What are the arguments? Nothing more than the usual scaremongering and predictions of doom. Why make such a big deal ...

LETTERS: Educate the illiterate
I agree with the views expressed by the author on Telangana. I would appreciate it if Mr Jayaprakash Narayan and his party cadre go to the villages in Telangana and explain the hardships the people will have to face if the State ...

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