Invesors are caught between bullish China and bearish India.
Whether it is the blunder over the glaciers or the linking of natural disasters to global warming, the IPCC's credibility has been badly hit. If this encourages laxity over global warming, that will be tragic.
People who cannot afford long-term higher rate home loans are lured by these teaser rates, only to rue their fate later, says Business Standard.
India needs to do a lot more before global companies view it as a better option than China for business, says Business Standard.
There is no doubt that economic growth has picked up. It's also true that inflation has edged up. We had said at the beginning that sometime in the course of the year we would begin to slowly wind it down and what has happened is on course for that decision but exactly what, it's too early to say, says Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Government needs to take a call on the DoT-MoD faceoff....
Major subsidies must be knifed before unwinding excise cuts
Google's multi-device plan also helps Android attract many third-party apps. But over 3 billion apps have been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod touch from the App store. So even if Android phones outsell the iPhone, Google will have to do a lot of running to catch up with Apple, which is not sitting idle either.
A rate hike will set back the recovery process, but if RBI does raise rates, it will be to prevent the rise in food prices from spilling over to other sectors and to dampen inflationary expectations.
'The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of services, where it is often hard to define the exact amount of the service rendered.'
India needs long-term thinking for long-term projects and a better handling of PPPs, says Business Standard.
That the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Energy Limited (REL) will be affected by the Allahabad High Court's decision on the land acquired by it for its 7,500 Mw Dadri power plant is obvious since the entire process of inviting objections to the acquisition has to be initiated from scratch.
It is important that urban planners for roads in cities make their outlook a little more inclusive and provide for reasonable space for pedestrians and cyclists on roads by protecting their right to use sidewalks.
Between 12 million and 15 million new jobs need to be generated each year to accommodate new entrants into the workforce, beyond the number needed to take care of the backlog of unemployed.
Nine months have passed since the country's largest financial scandal hit Satyam Computers, after its promoter Ramalinga Raju confessed to a fraud that its auditors had failed to detect.
From a balance of payments perspective, however, the continuing decline in exports is not particularly threatening, because imports have been declining even faster than exports.
The new legislation will replace opacity with transparency
The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) is broadly as announced by Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget speech in July, and will comprise two parallel systems.
The Pittsburgh summit could determine the timing of a calibrated winding down of public spending, now that the signs of a global economic recovery are evident.
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