Intelligence sharing is fine, but India needs to protect personal privacy.
The Central Vigilance Commission report evades the big questions.
Cross-border M&As get cheaper and easier, but this requires one set of laws -- on takeover codes, for instance - for local firms and another for the dual-listed ones.
Investment expert Mark Faber says he's bearish on the world economy.
Retailers have learnt the costly lesson that stores must be opened where they can get a regular loyal customer base, and not necessarily in prominent locations which create hype and footfalls but no commensurate purchases.
The trend of acquiring land abroad for growing food and other crops may have got a fresh boost, following the food security concerns provoked by high agricultural prices in 2007 and 2008, but it began a long time ago.
The New Pension Scheme is one of the more ambitious programmes tried out by the government. If successful, it has the power to transform India's savings habits.
The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has extended an olive branch to India TV -- the Rajat Sharma-promoted channel that withdrew its NBA membership last week after being fined by the News Broadcasting Standards Disputes Redressal Authority.
Tom Friedman has got his challenger. The world is not flat, says the World Bank, in its latest World Development Report.
Given how the brief strike by state-owned oil sector officers raised the spectre of a fuel drought across the country, the government deserves to be congratulated for deciding to take tough action and threaten to arrest striking officers, since this is what finally broke the strike. The fact that the emoluments of some of the striking workers were made public didn't help their case either, since these showed the managers to be amongst the better-paid in the public sector.
The overall index showed an increase of 2.4 per cent over November 2007, which is not a great performance but apparently different from the 1.4 per cent decline in the previous month. However, the base effect seems to be largely responsible for both numbers.
Ram Myanampati, the interim chief executive officer of beleaguered Satyam Computer Services, on Thursday admitted that he himself is on a shaky ground.
The commonly-held suspicion of wrongdoing pertains to a conflict of interest, but the management maintains that the move was aimed at enhancing shareholder value.
The death of a participant in a clinical trial by a Hyderabad-based contract research firm has refocused attention on the practices followed by an industry which is said to have great promise, because it can earn good dollars by leveraging cheap Indian skills.
It is unfortunate that Corporate India's image should be dented in this fashion; but it would be even more unfortunate if the Satyam case did not lead to a more careful scrutiny of what exactly goes on in Corporate India.
The government needs to do some more to get real estate transactions going. One is to figure out a way to bring prices down to more realistic levels, without crossing into the realm of formal controls.
Manmohan Singh may be the best suited to take charge of the finance ministry after Mr Chidambaram's shift to the home ministry. The problem is that Dr Singh already has a full-time job.
It is hard for the lay observer to understand why it should take 60 hours for crack commandos of the National Security Guard to clear a hotel of four attackers.
A combination of timing (the Pay Commission), political compulsions (the loan waiver) and circumstances beyond the government's control (high energy prices) have contributed to a significant reversal of what was shaping up as a very healthy trend.
The plan asks private parties to buy project land directly from farmers, with the government stepping in to acquire only the final 30% required after 70% has been sold by farmers of their own free will.
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