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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>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-last-ritessick-units/517517/</link>
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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>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/how-deep-ismalaise-inindian-railways/517518/</link>
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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[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>
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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>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/renegotiating-ppp-contracts/517359/</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/whose-cinema-is-it-anyway/517356/</link>
      <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[Wheres 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>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/where\scoal/517257/</link>
      <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[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>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:27:00 +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>
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      <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>
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      <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>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:46:00 +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[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[Shepherds 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>
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      <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[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[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>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[After Pakistans elections]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Nawaz Sharif, has received a decisive and powerful mandate from the Pakistani electorate in the recently concluded elections.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/after-pakistan\s-elections/516424/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Not a dual power centre]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent political drama over the resignation of two Union ministers on the same day has turned the spotlight once again on the principle of governance through a dual power centre.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The gravy train]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In God we trust; the rest pay cash.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-gravy-train/516418/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[No buyers for FDI in multi-brand retail]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After years of heated discussions on opening multi-brand retail to foreign investors and the eventual endorsement of the policy after a cliff-hanger vote in Parliament in December 2012, it would be a matter of great chagrin to the government and the mandarins who drafted the policy that no proposal has been submitted for approval.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/no-buyers-for-fdi-in-multi-brand-retail/516415/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monetary levers big and small]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Monetary policy operates through the big levers: the repo and reverse repo rates, the cash reserve ratio (CRR) and the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/monetary-levers-bigsmall/516244/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:51:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif is back]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan&#39;s army would have noted how distressingly unpredictable politics can be.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Alls fare in airline pricing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[First, the reality check.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:47:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The shift away from agriculture]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After a long period of virtual stasis, the movement of labour away from agriculture - a process coterminous with economic development - has gathered momentum in recent decades, according to the 2011 census.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-shift-awayagriculture/516219/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Returning to Anandamath]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If it were not for the refusal of Shafique-ur-Rahman Barq, BSP member of Parliament, to join in with the singing of Vande Mataram, I might never have gone back to Bankim Chandra&#39;s Anandamath and rediscovered its many charms.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Will the real inflation rate stand up please?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One macro issue in India that deserves renewed attention is the preference for the wholesale price index (WPI) over the consumer price index (CPI) for tracking inflation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/willreal-inflation-rate-standplease/516127/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Redesign dams, not rivers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Engineers require retraining, not the Ganga.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/redesign-dams-not-rivers/516130/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:29:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Leveraging for stability]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From barely $3.5 billion worth of foreign exchange reserves when it courted crisis during 1990-91 to $292 billion worth of reserves now, India has indeed come a long way, and is no longer vulnerable to the 1997-style Asian crisis.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/leveraging-for-stability/516132/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Did the CAG overstep the mark?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG&#39;s) reports saw senior politicians, powerful ministers and top bureaucrats end up in jail.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/didcag-overstepmark/516133/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:27:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A good case for India to lose?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Amidst all the righteous indignation generated by the now-returned Italian marines, another international dispute that India is involved in has slipped somewhat into the background.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-good-case-for-india-to-lose/516029/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[M-learning solutions]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mobile phones have been recognised as a bridge across social and economic divides in developing countries.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/m-learning-solutions/516040/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Indias aid diplomacy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One unheralded Indian success has been last year&#39;s establishment of a unified mechanism giving coherence, direction and efficacy to India&#39;s foreign aid; that may now amount to well over 0.2 per cent of GDP, if we aggregate all the foreign aid offered through the ministry of external affairs (MEA), and the different agencies that run technical assistance programmes for fellow developing countries.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india\s-aid-diplomacy/516033/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[India and China are both partners and competitors]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Chinese media: You have been saying what improved the relationship between China and India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/\indiachinaboth-partnerscompetitors\/516035/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The charge is complicity]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The difference this time is that the Teflon coating has worn off - not wholly, but very substantially.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-charge-is-complicity/515923/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chinas new path]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The opaque nature of China&#39;s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chinese economy will develop in the years ahead.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/china\s-new-path/515927/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Governing - not ruling - Karnataka]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So it&#39;s K Siddaramaiah - and not the quiet senior citizen and Union Labour Minister, Mallikarjun Kharge - who has become the chief minister of Karnataka.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/governing-not-ruling-karnataka/515933/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gang of eights lose-lose proposition]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Trade and economic engagement between India and the US has always been on a high growth path, and provides a focus to both nations&#39; bilateral strategic partnership.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/gangeight\s-lose-lose-proposition/515934/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Can you un-cage a pet parrot?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court&#39;s comparison of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to a &quot;caged parrot&quot; is both colourful and vivid, but it betrays the notion that the judges have ever kept one in the house.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/can-you-un-cagepet-parrot/515929/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The wrong song]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thursday was Rabindra Jayanti, and a little bit of Gurudeb&#39;s common sense is always refreshing.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-wrong-song/515936/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:40:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The point of it all]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What we think of as &quot;normal&quot; is constantly evolving.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-pointit-all/515930/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:38:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The professor and the player]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have brought much excitement to consumers of news about the gay world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-professorthe-player/515932/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:36:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[When puppets do the talking]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I walked into the cavernous, dark room and drew back with a start.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/when-puppets-dotalking/515937/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:34:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The small party showbiz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What defines a &quot;small&quot; party in Delhi, an intimate gathering of friends, what a hostess might describe as &quot;casual&quot;?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-\small\-party-showbiz/515938/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Abenomics and emerging markets]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Abenomics&quot; is a term coined by investors to refer to a set of policies put in place by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to get Japan out of the deflationary funk it has been in for the last decade.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/abenomicsemerging-markets/515679/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The sting in the tale]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When the cobra stings, the remedy has to be instant.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-sting-intale/515684/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Configuring a non-toothless Trai]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On April 27, this newspaper carried a report on the department of telecom&#39;s proposed amendments to powers of the regulator in the Telecom Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Bill.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/configuring\non-toothless\-trai/515686/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Squeezing Indias airports]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Talk to any industrialist and he will tell you that the investment climate in the country hasn&#39;t been worse in recent years.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/squeezing-india\s-airports/515681/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Early exit from economic stress?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As the government staggers from one corruption-related scandal to another, I am reminded of the title of an article I read some years ago, which characterised India as &quot;a flailing state&quot;.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/early-exiteconomic-stress/515508/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Protesting too much?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After Independence, our country has not yet been able to recover from the problem of unemployment.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/protesting-too-much/515509/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[More food for multilateral thought]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The agenda for the Bali Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is warming up.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/more-food-for-\multilateral\-thought/515496/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Inconvenient truths, misleading actions]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mercifully, things can&#39;t get any worse.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/inconvenient-truths-misleading-actions/515497/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Engage on trade]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In past columns I have stressed the need for India to engage actively with the shaping of the rules governing international trade and investment as the global economic order evolves.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/engagetrade/515376/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Choosing the next CAG right]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government will have to soon announce its choice of the next comptroller and auditor general (CAG), a position that has become critical for the future of the country.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/choosingnext-cag-right/515374/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Revolving door in lawsuits]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When litigants lose their final appeal in the Supreme Court, most of them learn to grin and bear it.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/\revolving-door\-in-lawsuits/515373/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This past Monday, Economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen blamed the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for stalling the National Food Security Bill by disrupting proceedings in Parliament.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-real-moral-failure-infood-security-bill-debate/515372/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[What type of crisis for India?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In mid-1994, Rudiger Dornbusch and Alejandro Werner warned that Mexico was heading into a crisis.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/what-typecrisis-for-india/515276/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Farming as a value chain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The tradition of mixing crop farming with supplementary farm activities, such as animal husbandry, poultry, fishery, silkworm rearing and beekeeping, has been the mainstay of most Indian farmers who hold no more than one to two hectares of land.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/farming-asvalue-chain/515272/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Making Doordarshan work]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Competition Commission of India has asked TAM Media Research to submit an investigative report on its system.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/making-doordarshan-work/515274/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[India in a three-speed world]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The news on the global economy has been mixed.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-inthree-speed-world/515270/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The unchaste page]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The reading was at a sedate mela; literature was tucked in sideways, in between the food stalls and the sellers of heavy machinery.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-unchaste-page/515258/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:42:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Balance sheet reforms]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When a company sells assets, shareholders are entitled to know how the assets were valued.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/balance-sheet-reforms/515162/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The price of regulators ignorance]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Saradha, a money chain scheme, went bust in West Bengal.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-priceregulators\-ignorance/515164/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:29:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rewriting the Indian growth story]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the last two weeks, various institutions have released estimates for gross domestic product growth in 2013-14.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/rewritingindian-growth-story/515165/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:28:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Badals business case]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal shared his government&#39;s ideas on economic policies with industrialists at a Business Standard conference in Chandigarh.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/badal\s-business-case/515167/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:27:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Good fences make good neighbours]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the last two weeks, some segments of mainstream Indian media and a few political parties have gone ballistic against the government over its handling of Chinese soldiers who have put up tented posts in the Depsang Valley in eastern Ladakh in the western sector of the India-China border.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/good-fences-make-good-neighbours/515081/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[When govt doubles as NGO]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The social audit directorate set up by the Andhra Pradesh government to monitor the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has emerged as a model.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/when-govt-doubles-as-ngo/515088/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The app store battle]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mobile operators all over the world have been facing declining average revenues per user; commoditisation of voice services; and congestion of their network due to intensive data usage, and thus have been propounding a self-defeating tirade against net neutrality proponents such as Internet content providers on the need to prioritise and restrict mobile data through their networks.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-app-store-battle/515082/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[I feel that I am sought to be made scapegoat]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sir, as a leader of the Bar and our team of Law Officers, I had expected guidance from you Sir, in discharge of my professional duties, notwithstanding the fact that we deal matters entrusted to us independently.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/\i-feel-that-i-am-sought-to-be-made-scapegoat\/515086/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 21:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Walmart-level aam aadmi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You are on the Gurgaon-Sohna Road, in the exploding exurbs of Delhi, in what the Easyday retail chain calls a compact hyper-store that is spread over 33,000 square feet.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/walmart-level-aam-aadmi/514935/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:50:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Creative licensing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We live in an open world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/creative-licensing/514938/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Made in greed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[My English friends were amused when I was searching high and low in London for an English-made suit.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reformatting social attitudes to sex]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is depressing to scan the morning news and be greeted by a raft of stories about horrific sexual assaults.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The unbearable lightness of let-down]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As we struggle through nearly two months of intense summer before the monsoon arrives in right earnest and brings relief, an undercurrent of excitement is running through the family - hugely underplayed, totally unstated, but real nevertheless.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Applied skills minus a degree]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In July last year, the Bangalore police arrested a senior manager from IBM who had landed the job on the basis of forged mark sheets.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The granny dentist of Tilonia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Whenever I used to think of dentists, tall males with impressive degrees, grimly doing their worst, oblivious to one&#39;s screams of agony, would come to mind.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spoilt for choice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It starts as breakfast is being laid.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bayern rises in India]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With the Spanish Inquisition being thwarted and punished this week in the world of football, May 25, 2013, will mark a unique Champions League final where the two dominant teams of Germany face off at Wembley stadium.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The importance of the ADB]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Asian Development Bank&#39;s (ADB&#39;s) Annual Meeting in New Delhi provides India with an opportunity to rethink its relationship with the institution and with international financial institutions (IFIs) more broadly.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selling India in America]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last Saturday afternoon, I was in my car on Peddar Road and, looking across, I saw a modern-looking woman driving a modern, mid-sized car, swishing her hair listening to music.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The power of fusion]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the many positive outcomes of the end of the Cold War has been greater willingness on the part of governments to cooperate in fundamental research.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Infrastructure financing How to raise $1 trillion]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent slowdown of the Indian economy has brought to light a critical challenge facing policy makers, namely how to shift infrastructure spending into higher gear.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Whither Singapore?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a statue of Sir Stamford Raffles on the banks of the Singapore River that stares roughly in the direction of city-state&rsquo;s Parliament.]]></description>
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