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      <title><![CDATA[Underperforming even in good times]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The late Professor Raj Krishna&#39;s term &quot;Hindu growth rate&quot; was an aptly pejorative description of India&#39;s economic performance.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The last rites of sick units]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Winding up an industrial unit is usually followed by a swarm of creditors.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How deep is the malaise in the Indian Railways?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent appointments scam in the Railways brings back into focus the inadequate and ineffective management of the nation&#39;s most important infrastructure sector.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Banks and regulator - all fall down]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Cobrapost sting operation and its aftermath have driven a coach and horses through the Indian banking system&#39;s ability to comply with international norms and Indian laws designed to prevent money laundering and funding of terrorism through know your customer (KYC) rules.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Breaking the circles]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Most of the current controversies in the telecom sector emanate from the fact that India has been divided into 22 telecom circles.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A shot of hope]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A couple of recent events in the area of preventive public health care reveal the distinct contrast between the functioning of India&#39;s health bureaucracy and that of its medical research.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Colgate: P&amp;G's toothpaste foray will raise competitive pressures]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After reports of Procter &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G) planning to enter the toothpaste market through its Oral-B brand in June, Colgate&#39;s stock is down five per cent on fears the company could see its market share decline.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/colgate-pg\s-toothpaste-foray-will-raise-competitive-pressures/517532/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Home truths, from abroad]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[British journalist Ian Jack&#39;s reporting on India contained in this diversely absorbing collection of articles spans 1977 and 2011, mostly the eighties and the nineties.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:25:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pay offs]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The fifth and final year of the United Progressive Alliance-II government sets the countdown rolling to the next general elections; and in view of the regime&#39;s philosophy of making people happy, it is reportedly targeting government employees.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Artful dodger]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Staff in the rural development ministry complain that far from taking money, they keep having to shell out money to destitute and needy individuals who seem to end up in its office.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/artful-dodger/517503/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Artful dodger]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Staff in the rural development ministry complain that far from taking money, they keep having to shell out money to destitute and needy individuals who seem to end up in its office.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/artful-dodger/517504/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ad world's item numbers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Creative hands at advertising agencies often talk about how the &quot;suits&quot; (i.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> HR - Highly Rewarding]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos the column &quot;No room for HR&quot; (Worm&#39;s Eye View, May 19), neither Robert Townsend (who advised winding up of personnel department as a solution for business prosperity, vide Up The Organisation) and Dilbert (who called human resource, or HR professionals &quot;hatchet men&quot;) were among the first, nor will the author be the last to declare HR as the &quot;black sheep&quot; of management.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-hr-highly-rewarding/517501/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Why blame the RBI?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This refers to the editorial &quot;Sting in the tale&quot; (May 16).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:01:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A detox programme]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India is set to join the small but growing club of nations whose governments issue inflation-indexed debt.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bonanza from the Pacific]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The governments decision to allow domestic farming of exotic prawn species, Litopenaeus Vannamei (commonly called white leg shrimp or Pacific white shrimp), in 2008, though much belated, has helped diversify the products basket for seafood exports.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bonanza-frompacific/517357/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Renegotiating PPP contracts]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The 15-year history of public-private partnership (PPP) in India is mainly about creating an enabling environment to get private capital to invest in infrastructure assets.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Whose cinema is it anyway?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For some weeks now I have been baffled by something.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Secret explorers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bookshops that arent really bookshops have an unmistakeable feel about them, like faux Italian cafes that serve butter chicken a la Tuscany.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/secret-explorers/517363/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Conflicting signals]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks to the fact that Infosys is listed in the United States as well as India, market participants now know that Indias income tax department has demanded Rs 577 crore from the second-largest information technology company in the country, even as the company also fights tax claims worth Rs 1,175 crore for four years in the 2000s.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Old policies, new costs]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Perhaps trying to make up for lost time, the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has announced as many as three draft economic policies in the run-up to its second anniversary.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Indian infotech sector is becoming a riskier bet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The potential implementation of the US immigration Bill have added to the challenges faced by Indian information technology (IT) companies.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/indian-infotech-sector-is-becomingriskier-bet/517364/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Handbags fighting]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Luxury magnate Bernard Arnault started acquiring a 14 per cent stake in Hermes almost 10 years before he revealed it in 2010.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Funding risks]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thailand&#39;s banks should brace themselves for a bad hangover.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/funding-risks/517367/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gridlock, Made by China]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So it wasnt just the aam aadmi who were stuck in the monumental traffic jams caused by road closures in the capital on account of Chinese Premier Li Keqiangs visit.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:06:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Money for nothing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is not only small-time investors from rural areas who have been victims of chit fund companies and collective investment schemes of the Saradha ilk.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Off track]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Among other things, the unceremonious ouster of former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal from his post deprived him of an official opportunity to escape the capitals debilitating summer heat.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> The erosion of democracy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Shankar Acharyas column Early exit from economic stress?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-the-erosiondemocracy/517343/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Signs of recovery]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This refers to Devangshu Dattas article Too soon to bet on inflation rate (May 19).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-signsrecovery/517342/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Accounting lapses in banks]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos the editorial Sting in the tail (May 16), deficiencies in governance arise from the fact that the control mechanism put in place to detect aberrations simply do not work in India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-accounting-lapses-in-banks/517340/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:01:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why pay parity alone may not help retain temp staff]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Recent surveys have suggested that the temporary staff (temp staff) market is seeing a growth upwards of 10%, on a y-o-y basis.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Future focus areas for an effective SEBI]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is SEBI season - the media is replete with articles on SEBI&#39;s achievements in the 25 years since its inception.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/future-focus-areas-for-an-effective-sebi/517230/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transfer pricing: Tolerance margin needs to be rationalised]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When transfer pricing provisions were introduced in India in the year 2001, no tolerance limit was prescribed for adjustment in arm&#39;s length price (ALP).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/transfer-pricing-tolerance-margin-needs-to-be-rationalised/517232/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where's the coal?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The developments relating to the issue of licences for coal mining during the United Progressive Alliance regime&#39;s first term have trained the spotlight on the weaknesses and inadequacies of the process that was followed.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The economics of trust]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A new day, a new scam.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-economicstrust/517258/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:29:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Part of government can still be independent]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a raging controversy now whether an institution which is a part of the Government can still be independent.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Corrupting the PPP model]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A key component of India&#39;s economic reforms has been the involvement of the private sector in delivering a range of government services to its citizens.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Markets on information-overload high]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An unusually volatile week ended on a happy note.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/marketsinformation-overload-high/517260/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:27:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arbitrator will test 'dead' disputes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In an arbitration dispute, the Supreme Court will not normally decide whether the claims are long dead and barred by the law of limitation.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sovereign concession]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fran&ccedil;ois Hollande knows that the widening Franco-German divide lies at the heart of the Euro zone crisis.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time passes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Leases may finally be going on balance sheets.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:22:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ratings and resources]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the credit rating agency Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s (S&amp;P) came to New Delhi last month, the government laid out the red carpet for its analysts; senior functionaries argued persuasively that reforms were in hand and the Indian economy was on the brink of returning to a high-growth path.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support vs procurement]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government&#39;s move to get the mandate of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) reviewed afresh by an expert panel needs to be viewed in a broader perspective - one that weighs political populism against economic logic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:14:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Press relations, China style]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is addressing the media on Tuesday at the Taj Palace Hotel, for which exclusive invitation cards are being distributed.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/press-relations-china-style/517261/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stepping off the gas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The issue of subsidies has become so sensitive in the light of the government&#39;s huge fiscal deficit that even the most articulate of ministers hesitate to comment on it.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/stepping-offgas/517262/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:08:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Goddess syndrome]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[During a recent visit to Assam, the hectic schedule of journalists accompanying President Pranab Mukherjee was interrupted by a surprise visit to the famous Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/goddess-syndrome/517263/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> The offshoring advantage]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This refers to the article &quot;US Immigration Bill - Is there an opportunity in crisis?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-the-offshoring-advantage/517264/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:06:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Reviewing appraisals]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos &quot;IIMs&#39; faculty worked up over appraisal scores&quot; (May 16), it is indeed very important for all organisations and, more particularly, educational institutions to have an effective appraisal system in place and review it every two to three years.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-reviewing-appraisals/517265/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Security in self-sufficiency]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Both the editorial &quot;The foreign spine&quot; and Ajit Balakrishnan&#39;s article &quot;As bytes replace guns&quot; (May 15) highlight the encompassing and critical nature of the internet and cyber security.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-security-in-self-sufficiency/517266/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How India should reform its trade for the 21st century]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The sharp increase in the current account deficit (CAD) is ringing alarm bells.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/how-india-should-reform-its-trade-for21st-century/517102/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free labour for govt]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government saves close to Rs 70,000 crore each year by underpaying or not paying six million workers it employs to implement its social sector schemes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/free-labour-for-govt/517130/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time to state a strategy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a recent talk delivered in New Delhi, the former foreign secretary and current chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), Shyam Saran, suggested among other things that it was not a fact that the armed forces were not involved in the formulation of national security thought - or strategy, if one might call &quot;thought&quot; that.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/time-to-statestrategy/517103/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[There is no foisting of leadership in our party: Tariq Anwar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Minister of state for agriculture and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Tariq Anwar tells Aditi Phadnis there is no nepotism in NCP.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/there-is-no-foistingleadership-in-our-party-tariq-anwar/517128/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA['We must identify the causes of moral decline in our society']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It gives me immense pleasure to be here today for the third Convocation of Nagaland University, a premier centre of higher learning in the north-eastern region.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/\we-must-identifycausesmoral-decline-in-our-society\/517124/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The golden goose]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It has long been argued that the Indian Premier League is a true reflection of the various problems of Indian capitalism in the 21st century: cronyism, mis-set prices and an emphasis on the spectacular at the expense of the substantive and on the short term at the expense of the long.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-golden-goose/517100/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beni does it again]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The irrepressible Beni Prasad Verma is at it again.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/beni-does-it-again/517123/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No reshuffle worries]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Those who are expecting a huge reshuffle in the council of ministers, need not worry.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-reshuffle-worries/517122/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:01:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Optimistic foreigners]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is hard to find a chief executive at a homegrown company who is hugely optimistic about the short- or even medium-term future.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/optimistic-foreigners/517000/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Changing class in America]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My first and lasting impression of America, echoed by numerous observers from the hierarchical societies of Europe and Asia, was the absence of class despite great inequalities of income and wealth.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/changing-class-in-america/517002/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Demystifying China]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Listening to a retired major-general thunder at a seminar that China plans to dismember India reminded me of Manmohan Singh bemoaning in the early days of liberalisation that people were accusing him of selling out to foreign interests.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/demystifying-china/517008/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[After Cobrapost]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Cobrapost has thrown sand in the wheels of commerce by drawing attention to the flouting of know your customer (KYC) norms across the banking system.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/after-cobrapost/517003/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The more things change...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A silhouetted figure sits hunched on the floor, her knees drawn up to her chest, arms wrapped around her legs, head hung low.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-more-things-change/517007/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shepherd's boy could let Bangalore fly]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the 10-odd years I was in Bangalore, the politician I had come to respect the most was K Siddaramaiah.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/shepherd\s-boy-could-let-bangalore-fly/517005/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No room for HR]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of my friends works in the infrastructure advisory services arm of a ratings agency.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-room-for-hr/517012/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Call the doctor, toll free]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/calldoctor-toll-free/517014/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The family business]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last year, Kabir turned to his diary of two decades ago to check how he&#39;d fared against the goals he&#39;d set himself&nbsp;- the serious as well as the facetious&nbsp;-&nbsp;when graduating from college.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-family-business/517016/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Chai with BS:</b> Ravi Narain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[He may have retired from executive responsibilities at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) close to two months ago, but Ravi Narain says the &quot;next two years may not be that easy&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/chaibs-ravi-narain/517010/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ITC clocks 3% volume growth in cigarettes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Unlike most consumer companies that have reported relatively weak top line numbers, ITC has not come up with any negative surprises, not even in the cigarette business.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/itc-clocks-3-volume-growth-in-cigarettes/517021/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The stampede out]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For gold investors, the bad news literally outweighs the good.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-stampede-out/517023/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:22:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Modern models please]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As the Great Stagnation stretches out into the indefinite future, the level of GDP and the growth rate are widely judged to be too low.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/modern-models-please/517026/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Corporate group-run banks: why now?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On February 22, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued guidelines on &quot;Licensing of New Banks in the Private Sector&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/corporate-group-run-banksnow/516809/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Power projects in a price maze]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has recently been involved in two landmark decisions concerning mega power projects.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/power-projects-inprice-maze/516806/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[US immigration Bill - is there an opportunity in crisis?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Business history buffs may remember that in 1981, the Reagan administration pressured the Japanese automotive industry to accept a &quot;voluntary&quot; export restraint agreement, limiting car imports into the US to 1.68 million cars a year.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/us-immigration-bill-is-there-an-opportunity-in-crisis/516804/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Preparing for volatility]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Globally, equity markets are rocking.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/preparing-for-volatility/516808/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Recovering a reputation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ranbaxy Laboratories has pleaded guilty to charges of wrongdoing related to drug safety in the United States and has agreed to pay $500 million (approximately Rs 2,740 crore at the current exchange rate) in civil and criminal fines to the US Department of Justice.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/recoveringreputation/516793/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Look abroad instead]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government&#39;s move to revive five defunct urea plants of the Fertiliser Corporation of India Limited (FCIL) seems both ill-advised and mistimed.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/look-abroad-instead/516794/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bajaj Auto: Lower tax rate boosts bottom line]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There&#39;s no doubt that net profit is a key measure of a company&#39;s performance, but at times, it isn&#39;t the most important factor in a company&#39;s quarterly report card.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bajaj-auto-lower-tax-rate-boosts-bottom-line/516830/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crude artifice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Even if a European Commission investigation into alleged manipulation of reported energy prices comes to nothing, it highlights a strange marketplace.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/crude-artifice/516828/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The new whingeing poms]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Listening to the Australians, you could be forgiven for thinking their economy is dead in the water or about to be.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-new-whingeing-poms/516829/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[CBI's trespassers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is, understandably, extremely wary of allowing unknown people access to its office.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cbi\s-trespassers/516792/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scary banking]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A senior executive of a bank interested in opening a branch in Pakistan demurred when asked the status of the proposal, which followed the Indian and Pakistani governments&#39; announcement that each would allow a branch of two banks in the other&#39;s countries.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/scary-banking/516791/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No blast duty]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For Kashmir, the &quot;heaven on earth&quot; analogy may no longer hold true.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-blast-duty/516789/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> The Sahara conundrum]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos the report &quot;Getting ready for the anniversary&quot; (May 13), the Rs 24,000 crore figure quoted by the Sahara chief was not the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi&#39;s) investigative disclosure.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-the-sahara-conundrum/516788/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Voting patterns]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Congress has been able to get a simple majority in the Karnataka Assembly election to form the government.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-voting-patterns/516787/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:01:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spot-fixing gate: a big blow to IPL and Dravid]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is irony at its best, that three cricketers, who are arrested for the spot fixing during the cash-and-controversy rich Indian Premier League, belong to Rajasthan Royals &ndash; a team headed by Rahul Dravid.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/spot-fixing-gatebig-blow-to-ipldravid/243116/on</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:51:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Match fixing is IPL's underbelly]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It should not come as a surprise if just before a match, one gets the odds for and against any IPL matches through text messages or Blackberry messaging system.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/match-fixing-is-ipl\s-underbelly/242878/on</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:08:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Looking towards 2050]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The present parlous state of the Indian economy and the global economy inevitably focuses attention on the short term.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/looking-towards-2050/516641/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A new Chinese revolution]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A revolution of sorts is in the making in China that could have a big impact on its renewable energy future.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-new-chinese-revolution/516637/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sebi: Reactive or active regulator?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent crisis involving the Saradha group has brought to the fore the issues surrounding the supervision of schemes that style themselves investment vehicles, and attempt to get away with money-circulation or Ponzi schemes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sebi-reactive-or-active-regulator/516634/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[As bytes replace guns]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The United States government last week explicitly accused the Chinese military of launching innumerable cyber attacks in the past year on the American government&#39;s computer systems with the purpose of &quot;building a picture of US network defence networks, logistics, and related military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/as-bytes-replace-guns/516638/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sting in the tale]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[To its credit, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) did not hesitate to point out that the three large private banks that were subject to the Cobrapost sting operation had committed serious violations.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sting-intale/516603/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The foreign spine]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India is one of the world&#39;s fastest-growing telecom markets.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-foreign-spine/516604/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[International investors overweight on India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The benchmark Sensex was awash in green at the end of Wednesday&#39;s trades, as investors went on a buying binge.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/international-investors-overweightindia/516622/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trees, forest]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Germany is growing and France has suffered a double-dip recession.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/trees-forest/516617/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:22:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bigger than Libor]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If the suspicions of European authorities are true, and oil traders conspired to rig published energy prices, global markets could be looking at a scandal bigger than Libor.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bigger-than-libor/516620/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Up to speed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Text messages sent to journalists by the commerce department on inflation data on Tuesday may belie the popular notion of lethargic government employees.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/up-to-speed/516602/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:06:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Made in India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Swedish home decor major IKEA sought to send out a pointed message recently at a series of meetings with the CEO.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/made-in-india/516601/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sweeping powers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A retail chain run by a large conglomerate seems to be facing even tougher times than it did before.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sweeping-powers/516599/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Vinod Rai's legacy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos Sukumar Mukhopadhyay&#39;s article &quot;Did the CAG overstep the mark?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-vinod-rai\s-legacy/516598/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[<b>Letters:</b> Harrying honest taxpayers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Apropos the report &quot;Hyd&#39;s rich report just Rs 5 lakh income&quot; (May 11), while the rich get away with understating their income, the Income-Tax (I-T) Department chooses to harass honest taxpayers by not giving them their refunds.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/letters-harrying-honest-taxpayers/516597/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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