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There must be a distinction between transparency and bidding -
Amrit Pandurangi, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd, Business Standard
India, an extremely resource-rich nation, is finding itself increasingly in a fix over allocation of natural resources. A growing list of scandals, accusing the government of extending benefits running into lakhs of crore to private parties during these allocations, has surfaced. Consultancy firm Deloitte’s Senior Director Amrit Pandurangi, a noted expert in infrastructure and related areas, recommends a course-correction for the embarrassed government in an interview with Sudheer Pal Singh. Edited excerpts.
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India does not have a flexible labour policy -
Paul van de Kerkhof, Chairman, Randstad India Ltd, Business Line
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Economy on way up, but risks linger -
Raghuram Rajan, Mint
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A polarizing figure, socialist showman -
Hugo Chávez, NYT
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India must help us before Nasheed is murdered -
Ahmed Naseem, Times of India
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My book will be valuable for Indian army officers -
Gen Shahid Aziz, Indian Express
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We’ll fight under non-dynastic ruler -
Yashwant Sinha, Asian Age
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'Pakistan is not a jehadi state' -
Husain Haqqani, Former Pakistani Ambassador to US, Indian Express
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The man who must change China -
Xi Jinping, Business Week
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The Maldives is a keg today -
Mohamed Nasheed, President, Maldives, Times of India
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The people of Kashmir instigated the dispute -
Christopher Snedden, Australian Scholar-historian, Mint
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The small reforms are the easiest, but make the big picutre -
Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Economic Times
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Businesses must know the rules of the game... If it becomes unpredictable, it is damaging -
David Cameron, British Prime Minister, Indian Express
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Cauterizing the wounds of 1971 -
Farah Ghuznavi, Hindu
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If you lose consumer trust, there will be no industry left -
Hari Narayan, Ex-Chairman (IRDA), Mint
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Teacher, thinker, he opposed quota -
PV Indiresan, Indian Express
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Doing business is painful -
R Thyagarajan, Hindu
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Of course, we must look into environmental factors, but not by stopping development -
Adi Godrej, Godrej Group chairman & CII president, Indian Express
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The Chaudhuri Effect -
Arindam Chaudhuri, Business Standard
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Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: Without truth, there can be no justice or peace -
Callum Macrae, Times of India
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Meet the meteorite hunter -
Michael Farmer, Meteor Hunter, National Geographic
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Regulators are sometimes too close to industry -
J Hari Narayan, Ex-Chairman, IRDA, Mint
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Turnaround Tony pilots India take-off -
Anthony Francis Fernandes, CEO AirAsia, Times of India
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Middleman with a Helicopter view of India, UK -
Christian Michel, Economic Times
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Meet the Gujarat CM's cheergirls -
Smriti Irani & Others, India Today
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Lunch and dinner with Julian Assange, in prison -
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, Conversation
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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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