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Kofi Annan: The 'teflon' UN secretary-general

 'Kofi Annan will be remembered more for his Nobel Prize and related glory rather than Rwanda and Volcker,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan with whom he worked in the UN. IMAGE: Former UN......

Why Natwar Singh's 'disclosures' sound hollow

 Natwar Singh's book is un-illuminating, largely self-justificatory, often contradictory, and at times tendentious. He is too preoccupied with depicting himself as a victim of the Congress party's......

Obama may re-hyphenate India and Pakistan

 The US presidential campaign is over and the transition drill has begun. Senator Barack Obama will take over as President on January 20, 2009, but his immense work as the President-elect would have......

Former Indian UN official convicted of bribery

Former United Nations procurement official Sanjaya Bahel was onThursday convicted of charges that he helped his friend win lucrative UN contracts worth$100 million in exchange for cash and......

Indian businessman pleads guilty to UN bribery

 An Indian businessman pleaded guilty on Thursday to bribing a UN purchasing official with two luxury apartments in return for being given more than $50 million in the world body's contracts. Nishan......

Why Raghuram Rajan Raced At RBI

 The speed at which he led the central bank in different areas -- ranging from internal reorganisation to inflation fighting, stabilising the currency, taking on rogue corporations, cleaning up bank......

Why derivatives are a Pyrrhic triumph for our equity markets

 The expansion in equity market volumes is driven by retail speculators indulging in heavy trading of complex derivatives that are economically unproductive, say Praveen Chakravarthy and T V......

Should RBI hike rates further?

 Like the rest of the market, I was somewhat surprised by the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) rate hike on March 19. The element of surprise related entirely to the timing of the move, says Abheek......

Economy: How to deal with external shocks

 The right policy response to global price increases is not straightforward.The draft report of the High-Level Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, chaired by Professor Raghuram Rajan (of the......

WB health projects in trouble

 World Bank has discovered serious cases of fraud and corruption in the five health sector projects dealing with eradication of tuberculosis and malaria and HIV/AIDS control schemes. The probe into......

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