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Destroying farm exports -
Business Standard
Stability is not the hallmark of the Indian government’s trade policies. This is true particularly of trade in agricultural products, which is switched on or switched off frequently — often at inappropriate times. The slew of recent decisions regarding the liberalisation of exports of agricultural commodities, such as sugar, cotton, onion, milk casein and staple cereals like wheat and rice, provides ample evidence of this. Curiously, most of these decisions were taken not by the ministries concerned, but by groups of ministers (GoMs) or at a still higher level. Such an ill-conceived approach towards exports helps neither to gainfully tap the global market to fetch better prices, nor to steady domestic commodity markets.
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Brazen UPA shamed -
Pioneer
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Congress and BJP have to confront their 'Kumar-isms' to regain a balance of power -
Ashok Malik, ET
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The UPA must not bring in another grandiose welfare scheme which the country can ill afford -
Times of India
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Phantom democracy -
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express
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Look at India’s economic reality -
Madhav Dhar, FinancialExpress
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Kowtowing to the Middle Kingdom -
G Parthasarathy, HinduBusinessline
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Early exit from economic stress? -
Shankar Acharya, BusinessStandard
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Freeing the parrot -
BusinessStandard
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Selective secularism -
SK Sinha, Asian Age
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Islamist parties in Bangladesh trying to hijack nation's politics -
DNA
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Engage on trade -
Suman Bery, Business Standard
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The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate -
Vivek Dehejia, Business Standard
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A darkening digital future -
L Gordon Crovitz, Mint
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Amartya Sen is wrong about the Food Security Bill -
Financial Express
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How food security law is creating perverse incentives -
Business Standard
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Recipe for a change for the worse -
Rajesh Singh, Pioneer
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Congress uses free-food Bill as fodder -
Pioneer
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Such a good fall: Oil & gold booms are over, good for global economy -
Ruchir Sharma, Economic Times
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Govt, India Inc must take advantage of ultra-cheap Western and Japanese money -
Economic Times
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Supreme Court support for the Kudankulam plant reverses anti-development tide -
Times of India
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Some chit chat -
Ila Patnaik, Indian Express
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Not so fast -
Indian Express
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Dhoni and the art of controlling an IPL match -
Aakash Chopra, ESPN
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Stuck record: Why Amartya Sen is wrong on food security again -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
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Amartya Sen, jholawalas, and the wrongs of rights-based laws -
Seetha, FirstPost
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 The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
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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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