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      <title><![CDATA[The perils of Chavismo]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is something almost appropriate in Venezuela's plans to embalm the body of Hugo Chavez, the flamboyant leftist and the idyllic South American nation's elected President for four terms.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-perilschavismo/505870/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Plugging the leaks]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Comptroller and Auditor General of India continues to be a thorn in the side of the United Progressive Alliance.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The necessary goal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The anaemic growth in India's defence capital budget this year, along with news that China is expanding its own more robustly, puts indigenisation to the forefront of the conversation again.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-necessary-goal/505597/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cement volumes to stay weak in first half of FY14]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The first half of FY14 is unlikely to see any major uptick in demand for cement.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cement-volumes-to-stay-weak-in-first-halffy14/505422/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reforming diarchy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Congress' vice-president, Rahul Gandhi, has long been suspected of an unwillingness to shoulder the burden of the post of prime minister.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/reforming-diarchy/505428/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Enter compulsory licensing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The appellate authority for intellectual property has approved the Indian patent office's decision to grant the country's first compulsory licence to a Hyderabad-based firm to manufacture and sell in India a drug used to treat renal and liver cancer, whose global patent is held by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/enter-compulsory-licensing/505429/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ripple effects]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two indirectly linked developments from the United States at the end of the last week may have major implications for the US and global recovery, and for India's external account.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ripple-effects/505257/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Undermining the market?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Futures trading in commodities in India is barely 10 years old, and neither adequately stabilised nor appropriately regulated.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/underminingmarket/505261/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Careful, Mr Modi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[General elections may be more than a year away, but many politicians are behaving as if the campaign has already begun.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/careful-mr-modi/505074/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Angels in India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The proposed budgetary changes in the treatment of angel investors are, on the whole, positive for this segment of the investment industry.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/angels-in-india/505076/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Managing current account]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Union Budget that was presented last week has made a major effort to resuscitate Indias economy and shown greater fiscal discipline by cutting government expenditure in the current year and promising a lower fiscal deficit in 2013-14.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/managing-current-account/504972/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The wrong direction]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If the projections in the 2013-14 Budget are to be believed, subsidies on food and fertiliser which, along with petroleum subsidy, account for nearly 95 per cent of total subsidies are unlikely to rise much in the next financial year.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-wrong-direction/504973/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Doing your home work]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The new CEO of struggling Silicon Valley behemoth Yahoo! has caused a furore across the Valley, the United States, and the entire business world by sending out a memo ending all work-from-home arrangements in the company.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The perils of forecasting]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What can be learned from the Economic Survey in a time when information and data about the economy, public and private, are so freely available?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-perilsforecasting/504393/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Great harvest, bad news]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Strange are the ways of the Union government, especially when it comes to managing the food economy.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Railways halts its slide]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Indian Railways has achieved an improvement in its operations in the current year, 2012-13, in terms of seeking to stay within its means.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/railways-halts-its-slide/504216/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The risks of austerity]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Plummeting global markets and surging bond yields have underlined the unambiguous message that Italian voters have sent to the rest of the European Union.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-risksausterity/504217/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dont assume a recovery]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the advance estimate of gross domestic product for this financial year, 2012-13, was released earlier this month and suggested India would grow at only five per cent, some in the Union finance ministry dismissed it as an overly simplistic extrapolation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/don\t-assumerecovery/504008/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Power gains]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s power sector, which was in all kinds of trouble until a few years ago, is showing signs of revival.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/power-gains/504009/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Indias tight-fisted rich]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the nineteenth century, the United States was overrun with ruthless industrialists, the men who built the railways and cities and steel plants that would make the country a superpower.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india\s-tight-fisted-rich/503831/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not a taxing Budget?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Finance Minister P Chidambaram will choose to increase the tax base rather than increase the burden on existing tax payers &mdash; that&rsquo;s the consensus of the Street.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nottaxing-budget/503588/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The same mistake, again]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies in policy have turned the Indian telecom industry into a case study of the damage caused by poor regulation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-same-mistake-again/503590/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Calling on New Delhi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Though New Delhi&rsquo;s winter is the usual season for state visits, it is nevertheless quite unusual for Raisina Hill to host two members of the UN Security Council within a week of each other, as happened recently with French President Francois Hollande and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/callingnew-delhi/503592/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Worst of both worlds]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The two-day general strike called by 11 all-India trade unions in protest against the ruling United Progressive Alliance&rsquo;s economic policies will disrupt normal life, certainly, but not as much as the trade unions may like.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/worstboth-worlds/503421/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Forward on food]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government has developed a fresh sense of urgency about the food security Bill; it seems to be trying to push it through Parliament as soon as possible in spite of continued disagreement about certain provisions.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/forwardfood/503424/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Domestic business is key for Tata Motors now]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, the performance of Tata Motors has been almost driven by the performance of Jaguar Land Rover, more so after the launch of Evoque, a runaway hit.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/domestic-business-is-key-for-tata-motors-now/503255/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Worsening current account]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the current account deficit came in at 4.2 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011-12, it went past the three per cent level recorded in 1990-91, and it was generally supposed that the government would prioritise bringing it down to more reasonable levels.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/worsening-current-account/503225/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Swine flu strikes again]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Even as laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu, and deaths due to it, are mounting, health authorities remain virtually silent spectators, waiting for the weather to turn unfavourable for this virus to spread.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/swine-flu-strikes-again/503227/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A double-edged sword]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Many in India&rsquo;s middle class are delighted when the courts assume an activist role: mandating a particular type of fuel for public transport, for instance, or banning mining following large-scale reports of illegal activities or cancelling a bunch of telecom licences after revelations of alleged collusion in spectrum allocation between the government and corporate applicants.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-double-edged-sword/503052/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The changing IT industry]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is both good and challenging news from the recent Nasscom summit for the Indian information technology (IT) and services industry.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-changing-it-industry/503055/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Future tense for India Inc]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the Central Statistics Office pegged India&rsquo;s growth estimate in 2012-13 at five per cent, the government dismissed it.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/future-tense-for-india-inc/502932/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:16:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multilateralism dying?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It has recently been confirmed that the People&rsquo;s Republic of China has overtaken the United States as the world&rsquo;s largest trading nation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/multilateralism-dying/502933/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NCR comes of age]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There used to be a clich&eacute; about cities in India, back when Bombay was Bombay and Calcutta was Calcutta: that Bombay had the energy, Calcutta the intellect.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ncr-comesage/502790/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:13:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Delayed hard landing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At long last, the 18-bank consortium led by State Bank of India has decided to recall all its loans, totalling Rs 7,500 crore, to Kingfisher Airlines.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/delayed-hard-landing/502552/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wrestling with confusion]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee&rsquo;s (IOC&rsquo;s) decision to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympics is baffling, and devoid of all logic.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/wrestlingconfusion/502556/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[CIL Higher costs take the sheen out of volume surge]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Coal India Ltd (CIL) posted better-than-expected performance for the December 2012 quarter, with sales of Rs 17,325 crore against expectation of Rs 16,958 crore, while net profit at Rs 4,395 crore was also ahead of estimates of Rs 4,225 crore, albeit due to higher other income and lower tax rate.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cil-higher-costs-takesheen-outvolume-surge/502422/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:19:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No turnaround yet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After figures for the November 2012 index of industrial production, or IIP, were released last month and showed industrial output contracting by 0.8 per cent as compared to November 2011, it was widely expected that December would see a reversal of fortune, with some sort of increase in industrial production heralding the long-promised turnaround in the India growth story.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-turnaround-yet/502243/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lessons for climate change]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent adoption of a new and binding international pact by over 140 countries for limiting harmful emissions from mercury is a significant step towards extending the global combat against environmental pollution to health protection.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lessons-for-climate-change/502247/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Watch your price]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Foreigners must be in awe of the abilities of the Indian government, particularly its uncanny ability to identify transactions that it believes it must tax.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/watch-your-price/502050/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arab storms]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In retrospect, the label of Arab Spring ascribed to the unrest of varying degrees of intensity across 19 countries in North Africa and West Asia has been an unfortunate one.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/arab-storms/502046/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pricing dilemma]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most extraordinary facet of Apple Computer&rsquo;s long run of success over the past decade is that the company has hardly put a foot wrong.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pricing-dilemma/501783/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[M&ampM Margin woes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A strong sales performance from the automotive segment and lower effective tax rates helped Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) post a 26 per cent jump in profits to Rs 836 crore for the December 2012 quarter as compared to the same period previous year.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mampm-margin-woes/501664/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cipla Anti-depressant Lexapro depresses Q3 show]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Cipla&rsquo;s December 2012 quarter revenue performance came in line with estimates with net sales rising 18.6 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to Rs 2,031 crore, close to Bloomberg estimate of Rs 2,039.3 crore.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cipla-anti-depressant-lexapro-depresses-q3-show/501297/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Need for more action]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On Sunday, quietly and with the minimum of fuss, the process of land acquisition for Posco&rsquo;s steel project in Odisha began again, after a break of more than a year.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/need-for-more-action/501033/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:35:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Doordarshan made anew]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The new minister for information and broadcasting (I&amp;B), Manish Tewari, has set up a high-level committee under prime ministerial advisor Sam Pitroda to examine the future of Prasar Bharati, the giant state-owned organisation that takes up almost two-thirds of the I&amp;B ministry&rsquo;s budget, and which controls Doordarshan television and All India Radio (AIR).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/doordarshan-made-anew/501036/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The states first duty]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[To those with a statistical bent of mind, India&rsquo;s recent problems with freedom of speech seem now reflected in a major international indicator.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-state\s-first-duty/500923/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:20:19 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[What next for MGNREGA?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Seven years on, the United Progressive Alliance&rsquo;s flagship rural welfare programme, operated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA, continues to have effects that are simultaneously little understood and divisive.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/what-next-for-mgnrega/500927/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:18:03 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A whole new game ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What, precisely, are &ldquo;monopolistic practices&" in a world that is moving online?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-whole-new-game-/500832/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:29:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Step forward for Lok Pal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Union Cabinet cleared the Lok Pal Bill on Thursday, and it is likely to be introduced in Parliament during the forthcoming Budget session.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/step-forward-for-lok-pal/500643/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:35:57 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Charge of the think tanks ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the United States&rsquo; largest and best-known think tanks, the Brookings Institution &ndash; which has often been called the world&rsquo;s most influential &ndash; has decided to open an India branch, which will be led by the former India head of the Shell Group of Companies, Vikram S Mehta.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/chargethe-think-tanks-/500644/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Green signal for GST]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[That the government is finally moving forward on the goods and services tax, or GST, is important and welcome news.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/green-signal-for-gst/500529/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Karnatakas costly politics]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It seems that the woes afflicting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka can become terminal.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/karnataka\s-costly-politics/500530/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Now, the supply side]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India released its third-quarter review of monetary policy, and relieved the markets and many in industry by cutting the repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 per cent.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nowsupply-side/500394/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices for women]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On January 27, the day after nation-wide celebrations of India&rsquo;s 64th year as a Republic, Justice J S Verma indirectly confirmed on television a shameful fact that the anti-rape protests on Raisina Hill underlined in December: that there aren't too many mainstream politicians interested in representing women&rsquo;s rights as an issue.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/voices-for-women/500395/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:28:01 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The wrong remedy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Union Budget for 2012-13 was met with dismay in some quarters because it appeared to allow the tax authorities excessive discretionary power.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-wrong-remedy/500222/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crimes and victims]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The suicide earlier this month of internet activist Aaron Swartz, 26, has, in tragic fashion, highlighted lacunae in the laws governing electronic copyright and computer crime, which he spent his life campaigning against.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/crimesvictims/500220/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Budgeting for failure]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government, according to recent newspaper reports, finds itself unable to clear the mounting subsidy dues of the fertiliser industry &mdash; the budgetary allocation for this purpose has already exhausted.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/budgeting-for-failure/500100/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:12:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Securing the Republic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s 64th Republic Day celebrations threw up some interesting points to consider for those who are responsible for the country&rsquo;s security.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/securingrepublic/500099/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A promise made]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On January 29, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to review monetary policy, and it has been widely expected that interest rates will be cut.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-promise-made/499877/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A road map worth following]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The J S Verma Committee, which was set up with commendable promptness by the Union government within a week of the gang rape of a young woman in Delhi, is to be congratulated for doing a quick and thorough job.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-road-map-worth-following/499878/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:30:43 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Exit Mr Gadkari]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Months after accusations broke claiming that he had misused his position as public works minister in Maharashtra, Nitin Gadkari is out as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/exit-mr-gadkari/499765/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lame-duck speech]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It has been a characteristic of two-term presidencies in the United States that the first term is frenetic, full of policy adventures and misadventures, and the second term is much more sedate.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lame-duck-speech/499766/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reform, not bailouts]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The housing sector has not been quite the same since the crash of 2008 hit its financing options.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/reform-not-bailouts/499666/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A lesson learnt]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The sentencing of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala, and of three officials who served in the Haryana government under him in the early part of the last decade, to 10 years in jail is a landmark step.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-lesson-learnt/499667/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No real recovery]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After several tumultuous quarters, corporate India&rsquo;s earnings are turning positive.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-real-recovery/499545/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping it simple]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Complex pricing of energy always causes a cascading set of problems.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/keeping-it-simple/499546/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A patent revolution]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The patent wars between global smartphone majors have taken a new turn after the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected three key Apple patent claims that featured in lawsuits brought by Apple against Samsung, HTC and Motorola Mobility (now part of Google).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-patent-revolution/499452/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:31:02 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A change of emphasis]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Inevitably, much attention this past weekend was devoted to the official elevation of Rahul Gandhi to the number two position in the Congress party.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-changeemphasis/499451/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Walking it alone]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is now well into her second year at the helm of affairs in West Bengal.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/walking-it-alone/499345/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Well begun, half done]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily said that the government had decided to allow the oil marketing companies to raise the price of diesel in small amounts, in order to reduce the losses OMCs make on selling the refined fuel.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/well-begun-half-done/499185/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:31:31 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Out of time]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[That the Indian bureaucracy finds it difficult to shake off its micro-management of the economy more than 20 years into economic reform is a given.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/outtime/499186/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:30:18 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Taxation, not litigation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tax reform need not focus merely on tax slabs and the nature of the laws governing taxation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/taxation-not-litigation/499038/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Due to royalty ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The annual royalty that McDonald&rsquo;s Indian franchisee will pay to the US-headquartered fast-food company is all set to go up from three per cent of net sales now to eight per cent by 2020.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/due-to-royalty-/499039/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:30:15 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Watering down GAAR]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government has finally declared what action it intends to take on the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), which were announced with much fanfare in the last Budget and prompted widespread concern among investors.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/watering-down-gaar/498933/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[IT leaders please]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The markets have greeted the results of India&rsquo;s two information technology leaders, TCS and Infosys, with a degree of added enthusiasm, which may not be fully deserved.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/it-leaders-please/498934/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crossing a red line]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It should go without saying that the media has a role in informing and educating a citizenry about the issues of the day, providing background, context and holding the powerful to account.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/crossingred-line/498845/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Balancing a diet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Consider the following discrepancies in the farm sector.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/balancingdiet/498846/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:30:12 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reason, not fear]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Indian Science Congress recently that issues like genetically modified (GM) foods cannot be settled by faith, fear or emotion, but by reason.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/reason-not-fear/498727/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:26:03 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Still in slowdown]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Estimates for India&rsquo;s industrial production were released by the Central Statistics Office of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Friday, revealing that the index of industrial production, or IIP, for November 2012 was 0.1 per cent lower than it had been for November 2011.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/still-in-slowdown/498726/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:24:53 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Running on empty ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Finance Minister P Chidambaram hopes to contain the fiscal deficit at 5.3 per cent of gross domestic product, and though no one knows how he will achieve this, one thing is for sure: frittering away government energy and funds on a public sector unit that was virtually a non-starter from its inception in 1972 is not the way to go about it.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/runningempty-/498651/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:30:11 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Look beyond govt funding]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The decision by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to increase tuition fees by 80 per cent &ndash; from Rs 50,000 to Rs 90,000 per annum &ndash; is a welcome step in correcting the fee distortions prevalent in most state-owned higher education institutions.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/look-beyond-govt-funding/498430/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dropping the price, again]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Empowered Group of Ministers, or EGoM, on telecom, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, has said the base price for CDMA spectrum auction should be cut 30 per cent or 50 per cent, as the last auction in November failed to attract any bidders.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/droppingprice-again/498434/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Railways moves forward ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government&rsquo;s announcement yesterday on raising railway passenger fares for all classes of travel was long overdue.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/railways-moves-forward-/498346/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:35:19 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Broadening the net]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By all accounts, the finance ministry is seriously considering increasing the marginal tax rate on the richest Indians in the next Union Budget.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/broadeningnet/498347/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Asking for trouble]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India has not issued a new bank licence since 2004.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/asking-for-trouble/498175/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:35:57 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Flying in the face of logic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When it comes to regional connectivity, the government of India appears to err on the side of unwarranted generosity to private airlines.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/flying-infacelogic/498176/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:33:10 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Women at work]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What explains the Indian political system&rsquo;s stunning inability to come out and clearly defend women&rsquo;s right to leave their home, navigate safe public places and go to work?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/women-at-work/498049/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:25:15 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Waiting for the RBI?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[December turned out to be a mixed bag for the country&rsquo;s car makers, throwing up confusing signals.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[First, a scientific temper]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The goals articulated in the Centre&rsquo;s new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STI 2013) are both ambitious and unexceptionable.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:38:38 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Principles and rules]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Many investors, mostly overseas, have often expressed concerns about India Inc&rsquo;s opaque corporate governance practices.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:35:08 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reforming Indias police]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India all too often confuses law-making with implementation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/reforming-india\s-police/497867/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:50:46 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A first step forward ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Rangarajan Committee on the production-sharing contract (PSC) mechanism in the petroleum industry has recommended major changes, which would alter the parameters of exploration and production (E&amp;P) and have a major knock-on effect on consumers in the fertiliser, power, transport and household sectors.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-first-step-forward-/497664/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:31:47 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Solving the gold riddle ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Policy makers in India are justifiably rattled by the soaring gold demand, which has pushed the current account deficit in the second quarter of 2012-13 to a record 5.4 per cent of gross domestic product.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A long-overdue raise]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The cheer of the new year was darkened by news that India&rsquo;s public finances continue to be in dire straits.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time to reform wheat]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Union Cabinet&rsquo;s decision to raise the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat by five per cent for the current rabi season defies logic in several respects.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/time-to-reform-wheat/497561/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:30:35 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A year of weakness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released data on India&rsquo;s balance of payments during the second quarter of 2012-13 on Monday that made for sobering reading of challenges as India heads into the new calendar year.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-yearweakness/497401/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:11:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kicking it down the road]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For two hours after midnight on January 1, 2013, the United States headed off the dreaded &ldquo;fiscal cliff&".]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Indias two futures]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Nobody knows the name of the 23-year-old student who died on Saturday after she was brutally raped nearly two weeks ago by six men in a white bus with tinted windows that moved unchecked through South Delhi.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india\s-two-futures/497299/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:30:50 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Green shoots for jobs]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s yesterday once more at business school campuses: summer job placements this year seemed like final placements four or five years ago.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/green-shoots-for-jobs/497295/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:29:58 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The significance of Mr Abe]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A little over five years ago, India&rsquo;s moribund and sometimes distant relations with Japan got a dramatic boost when that country&rsquo;s visiting prime minister, Shinzo Abe, told India&rsquo;s Parliament that he looked forward to a &ldquo;confluence of the two seas&" (the Indian and Pacific oceans), and a &ldquo;broader Asia&" that would create &ldquo;an arc of freedom and prosperity&".]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-significancemr-abe/497207/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:28:41 +0530</pubDate>
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