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With Walmart locked out, India's billionaires rush in - Business Standard
Last December, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to open India’s retail industry to foreign giants such Walmart Stores Inc and Carrefour SA. Seven months later, the foreigners are still waiting, stalled by populist politicians who say their arrival would threaten the survival of India’s legions of small shop owners.

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Ranbaxy a wake-up call for Indian pharma - Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Bus Std
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An Indian military-industrial complex - Rajiv Bhargava, Mint
Media cross-holding in cross hairs - Prashant Jha, Hindu
India's core data may not present right picture - Vikas Dhoot, Economic Times
Ranbaxy's dark chapter - Bhupesh Bhandari, Business Standard
SEBI: 25 years and going strong - Sandeep Parekh, Financial Express
Start and sell: India’s new Valley success stories - Shilpa Phadnis, Times of India
Crony capitalism alive and well - R Srinivasan, Business Line
Inflation: RBI versus the market - Renu Kohli, Mint
Sweatshop nations - Kanika Datta, Business Standard
Rethinking the rural - Neelkanth, Indian Express
The ideal retail policy - Arvind Singhal, Financial Express
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Why India needs ambitious projects - Mint
Retail tale: First, get the basics right - Arvind Singhal, Financial Express
Politician families in business: What aided their meteoric rise - John Samuel Raja D, Economic Times
The making of Rotavac - Jacob P Koshy, Mint
R-Infra to exit Rs 20k-cr projects on government delays - Rachita Prasad, Economic Times
Trade chasm with China is widening - Mail Today
Lower wheat procurement benefits all - Tejinder Narang, Business Line
Telecom cartel killed spectrum auctions; govt failed to act against them: CAG - Joji Thomas Philip, Economic Times
India Inc looks to scale Great Wall with next-gen biz - Financial Express
Grain scam: Bihar food corp ends up with chaff as rice worth Rs 535 cr vanishes from mills - Santosh Singh, Indian Express
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When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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