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Pollution in China
April 16, 2015, 6:56 AM IST
By Judith Shapiro The World Bank has found that 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities are in China, mainly because of heavy coal use, with Shanxi’s coal mining city Linfen the dirtiest. China’s…
April 16, 2015, 6:56 AM IST
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A firm local action must for India’s economic growth
April 16, 2015, 6:42 AM IST
The IMF and World Bank separately forecast India will outperform China in 2015-16. This is surely a boost for the Narendra Modi government. It would be a blunder to crow over such projections, while leaving…
April 16, 2015, 6:42 AM IST
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The last thing India needs to think of now is capital convertibility
April 15, 2015, 5:40 AM IST
By Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar At a lecture in Pune last week, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan was reported to have said, “We hope to get full capital account convertibility in a short number of years.”…
April 15, 2015, 5:40 AM IST
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India can become a global trading power if it takes mega-regional negotiations seriously
April 13, 2015, 6:24 AM IST
By Vijay Kelkar & Harsha V Singh India’s international trade has contributed in a major way to its growth, evident in its ratio of trade-to-GDP rising from 26% in 2000 to 53% in 2013. The…
April 13, 2015, 6:24 AM IST
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AQI augury
April 11, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
India can improve its air quality more easily than China A year ago, when the World Health Organisation declared Delhi to be the most polluted city on earth, Indians reacted with shock. Didn’t Beijing have…
April 11, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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All that fuss about the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
April 9, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
When did a series of banking initiatives spearheaded by Asia become a global forum for its allies to thumb their collective political noses at the US? Since China launched the idea of Asian Infrastructure Investment…
April 9, 2015, 6:53 AM IST
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Real threat to India trade balance is from growing energy imports and not China
April 6, 2015, 6:26 PM IST
A threat that has loomed large on the India China trade ties for many years now is the widening merchandize trade deficit. And most recent projections made by the government seems to indicate that the…
April 6, 2015, 6:26 PM IST
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Fashionable puffs: Smoking is rising among women because cigarettes are being marketed as signs of success
April 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
Government of India is now debating whether to increase the dimensions of the frightening pictures on cigarette packets. Limiting our attention to enlarging them and thereby their potential to scare may not be enough. Experience…
April 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Floods in Kashmir, again
April 1, 2015, 12:16 PM IST
It is happening again and my heart goes out to people who are losing their homes and livelihoods. While Srinagar is flooding, Delhi is gasping because of pollution. This is what happens when warnings that…
April 1, 2015, 12:16 PM IST
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Is a new Modi emerging?
April 1, 2015, 9:31 AM IST
Last week I was watching, as I often do, Arnab doing his usual on News Hour and I found Sambit Patra, the hapless BJP spokesman who’s expected to defend everything the Government does (and often…
April 1, 2015, 9:31 AM IST
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China’s regional power shift: Silk Road and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
March 31, 2015, 6:33 AM IST
By Srikanth Kondapalli China let the cat out of the bag at the Bo Ao Forum for Asia, where President Xi Jinping stated that the recent initiatives of the Silk Road and Asian Infrastructure Investment…
March 31, 2015, 6:33 AM IST
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Same same but different: Parliaments of India, China and Japan are all pushing reforms but guess who’s ahead?
March 30, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The buzzword across three principal Asian countries – India, China and Japan – is ‘reform’. It’s clear that their impulses are interlinked and have consequences for the world. Coincidentally, all three have been having key…
March 30, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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A salient step: Bilateral talks between India and China make welcome progress in border resolution
March 25, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
Talks between special representatives of India and China have set the right tone for PM Modi’s forthcoming visit to China. The highlight of these talks has been maturity in dealing with the complex border dispute….
March 25, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Lee Kuan Yew: The original transformer
March 24, 2015, 5:46 AM IST
By Jaspal S Sabharwal In 1960, the small island state of Singapore adjacent to Malaysia was a fishing village with an average GDP per capita of $427. Today, it has an average GDP per capita…
March 24, 2015, 5:46 AM IST
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Start-ups have transformative potential and need to be spared stifling regulations
March 17, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
What is common to Arun Jaitley, Ratan Tata and China’s smartphone maker Xiaomi? They are all upbeat about the future of India’s start-ups and are ready to back their conviction with investments. Riding the tailwind…
March 17, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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History holds Asia hostage
March 16, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
A failure to come to terms with history weighs on all the important bilateral relationships in Asia. As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, some Asian nations are resurrecting the…
March 16, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Modi’s Indian Ocean Tour: Let Indic soft power and China’s Silk Road flourish simultaneously
March 13, 2015, 7:06 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tour of three Indian Ocean island nations – Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka – has obvious strategic dimension. There’s no denying that New Delhi had planned this tour keeping in mind…
March 13, 2015, 7:06 PM IST
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Swine Flu outbreak: Lessons learnt
March 9, 2015, 9:36 AM IST
It took a mere 30,000 reported cases of H1N1 influenza (loosely termed swine flu) for the World Health Organization to declare it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in April 2009 meriting concerted global…
March 9, 2015, 9:36 AM IST
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India could see economic renaissance like China – but must invest in innovative capacity: Patrick Kilbride
February 27, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
Patrick Kilbride is executive director of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center. Recently in India, Kilbride spoke with Sanjiv Shankaran on the optimism India’s economy is generating, the tricky domain of India’s…
February 27, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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India needs a predictable tax code, and other reforms
February 24, 2015, 5:40 AM IST
By Mark Weinberger When we look at the two fastest-growing economies in the world, China and India, it is interesting to observe that both have followed a diametrically opposite course in their growth model over…
February 24, 2015, 5:40 AM IST
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