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High flying costs -
Business Line
Airport modernisation is an expensive deal for its users, as it involves the AAI share of the revenue becoming a pass-through. An increase of close to three and half times in user charges at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in New Delhi should come as no surprise. It is, after all, an inevitable outcome of an utterly perverse revenue-share system adopted for awarding of such projects under the public-private-partnership (PPP) model.
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Why corruption continues to be around despite the outcry against it -
Chetan Bhagat, Times of India
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Sino-Pak Alliance: Naval and Nuclear Cooperation -
C Raja Mohan, Indian Express
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Everybody knows the fight was fixed -
DNA
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The unreliable source -
Hartosh Singh Bal, Open
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Virtual nasties -
Matthew Parris, Deccan Chronicle
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India: Patent and precedents -
Amy Kazmin, Financial Express
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India: the superpower that wasn’t -
Sandipan Deb, Mint
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What underlies the reasonable new China? -
Ajai Shukla, Business Standard
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US immigration Bill - is there an opportunity in crisis? -
Ravi Venkatesan, Bus Std
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Politics of revenge -
Pioneer
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Fresh options -
Financial Express
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Is John Kerry pro- or anti-India? -
Tanvi Madan, Indian Express
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Food for thought -
Minhaz Merchant, Economic Times
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A demographic tinderbox -
Mint
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The foreign spine -
Business Standard
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It's the politics, stupid! -
TK Arun, Economic Times
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Being reasonable is fine, being soft isn't -
Gautam Mukherjee, Pioneer
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As prices cool, boost farm productivity -
Economic Times
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Conciliation time -
Financial Express
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It’s time to open the gates wider -
Naveen Tewari, Mint
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‘Non-core’ solutions -
Business Line
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Castles in the air -
Gregory Randolph & Mukta Naik, Hindu
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Govt, RBI are again getting it all wrong on Gold -
Nidhi Nath Srinivas, Economic Times
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Courts also need a Lokpal -
Pavan K Varma, Times of India
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Manmohan Singh should now start work on 'secure' borders -
Indrani Bagchi, Times of India
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 There was for years an old "social contract" between politicians and business. This provided for complex rules and regulations that made it impossible to do business honestly in many fields. But it was possible to do business dishonestly, through pay-offs . Some called this "efficient corruption" : politicians took money and delivered clearances. However, the anti-corruption mood of the courts, and new fears of getting caught (like Pawan Bansal) have ended "efficient corruption" . Politicians may still take money but not deliver on clearances , what some call "inefficient corruption" that freezes investment and growth. The old social contract has broken down.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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