Public sector banks score over private ones

Looking beyond privatisation

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Arunachal Pradesh signs MoUs for hydroelectric projects

New science policy brings in PPP

Makes provision for public funding of corporate research and development

Rajasthan seed initiative wilts

MoUs with biotech seed companies in limbo as protests force a rethink

Channels of interest

National Water Policy draft gives industry implicit priority over agriculture

Public transport scores over private in Goa

Stuart Cole on effective transport management

Transport economist Stuart Cole is director of the Wales Transport Research Centre in Cardiff. On a recent visit to Mumbai, he spoke to Nidhi …

High-speed derailment

Indefinite closure of Delhi airport metro line dashes faith in public private partnerships

History and our notions of ideal and modern

Making Mumbai global hub

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Mineral development PSU snaps ties with Rio Tinto

Joint venture with Anglo-Australian firm to explore iron ore yielded no result

Nepal needs SEZ booster for its floundering economy

Left wing parties prove a major hindrance in enacting SEZ law

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Nationwide strike cripples France

The facade of sharing

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private

Public’s private peeve

Will Bihar’s failed model of outsourcing diagnostic services work in Chhattisgarh?

Long road to justice

The new land acquisition bill promises much but has little to ensure delivery

Jan Aushadhi Stores fail to take off

Very few visit governmentÔÇÖs generics retail outlets

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Whose germplasm is it?

NBA struggles to frame case against Mahyco in first biopiracy case

A joke we've played on ourselves

The deadly public sector