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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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Rail Roaded -
Financial Express
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Border crisis ends: Why China picked a fight with India -
Praveen Swami, FirstPost
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An economy saved by a piano top -
Amay Hattangadi & Swanand Kelkar, Mint
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Fewer and better -
Business Line
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Unfit to hold the post of Attorney General -
Rajeev Dhavan, Mail Today
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Everyone loves food security -
Sunil Jain, Indian Express
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Mr Subbarao talk less and ensure there is enough liquidity -
Sugata Ghosh, Economic Times
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Incredibly shrinking India -
Business Standard
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UPA faces tough options -
Anil Padmanabhan, Mint
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Good fences make good neighbours -
Joe Thomas Karackattu, Business Standard
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Milquetoast Doctrine -
Ashok Malik, Asian Age
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The great dictation -
Indrajit Hazra, Hindustan Times
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UPA II will be felled by people anger -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
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India fed up of dysfunctional Govt -
Swapan Dasgupta, Pioneer
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Sardar Patel saw through China -
Rajesh Singh, Pioneer
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India has never seemed as helplessly weak as now -
MJ Akbar, ToI
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India needs a statutory, independent Police Commission -
SA Aiyar, ToI
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Republic of proxystan: Bill and coo, kill and Woo -
Chidanand Rajghatta, ToI
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Time to empower the slave -
Chetan Bhagat, Times of India
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Anwar is on song in Malaysia -
MJ Akbar, Sunday Guardian
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1984 was a bad time to be an Indian -
Madhav Nalapat, Sunday Guardian
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CBI not as guilty as AG, Ashwani -
Ram Jethmalani, Sunday Guardian
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Sycophancy corrodes -
Tavleen Singh, Indian Express
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Déjà vu all over again! -
Percy S Mistry, Financial Express
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Act tough with China -
Bidanda Chengappa, Business Line
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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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