http://feeds.business-standard.comThe latest news from India's most respected business daily.enBusiness Standard LimitedSat, 07 Nov 2009 11:45:02 GMTNewspapersBS RSS Generator10http://feeds.business-standard.com/images/logo_small.gifhttp://feeds.business-standard.com14428Business Standardhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/XLLbwAlnNtU/storypage_c.phpIn the age of public-private partnerships (or PPP), the question has to be answered: What if the final reality differs radically from the initial plan? Who bears the pain of negative outcomes, and who enjoys the gain of positive ones? The question acquires urgency because of developments in areas as diverse as airport development and the Commonwealth Games.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375612Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:04:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375612http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/OF3vh6BU_Ao/storypage_c.phpHaving taken price cuts for products, it was primarily volume that drove the top line in the home market.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375652Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:34:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375652http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/oMABdCV0CYU/storypage_c.phpICBC-Standard Chartered: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is already the worlds biggest bank but it could be bigger and broader still. The time may have come to pursue a longstanding idea of a deal for emerging-markets lender Standard Chartered. While the combination was often rumoured before the financial crisis, in a more stable world it makes more sense than ever.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375621Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:51 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375621http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/QTxAr_HNvnc/storypage_c.phpTheres an old grandmas superstition handed down over generations that you shouldnt keep the whole text of the Mahabharata in your house because it will become the harbinger of some great quarrel in the family.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375611Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375611http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/2zbWGfABYwE/storypage_c.phpThis is what my daughter said shed do for her birthday: Invite the guests. This is what my son said hed do for his sisters birthday: Bring friends. This is what my wife said shed do for our daughters birthday: Nothing. This is what I had to do for my daughters birthday: Organise the DJ, speak to a bartender, think up a menu and then order the food.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375593Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:16:51 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375593http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/G-YY0nh4hFE/storypage_c.phpAs I write this, both the teaching and the non-teaching staff are on strike at Tagores Visva Bharati University. This not only extends the long Puja holidays that the teachers and students have already had, but makes it clear to those with any interest in academia that syllabi will not be completed in time for the November semester exams.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375596Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:14:49 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375596http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/aUJYeGHKMQE/storypage_c.phpBehavioural scientists chuckle over the Lake Wobegon Effect. Lake Wobegon is a fictional small town whose residents claim that all the women are beautiful, all the men strong, and all the children intelligent. Similar effects are seen in surveys where everyone is a self-assessed good driver.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375614Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375614http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/yYzpagHwufY/storypage_c.phpWe need a Financial Products Safety Commission to vet derivatives and their suitability for clients, to reduce the asymmetry in knowledge between buyers and sellers.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375595Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:10:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375595http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/5kxWxnYNiBE/storypage_c.phpEnvironment Minister Jairam Ramesh struck several chords when he suggested, via a leaked letter to the prime minister (PM), that the time had come for a gear shift in Indias policy towards climate control. Traditionalists roared disapproval, and climate-control negotiators seemed satisfied that order was restored. But there just might be more to the leaked letter.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375613Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:08:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375613http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/m4OgZBPaFW0/storypage_c.phpThis is being written in what is nowadays called a studio in London. That artistic word only means its a single room with a tiny entrance lobby, a bathroom and a kitchen. It was a bed-sitter in a more honest age when paying-guests were lodgers and the lowest floor was the basement. Though not a blade of green may be in sight, basements have burgeoned into the sylvan glory of garden flat.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375594Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:49 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375594http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/R4M4RXI3yZY/storypage_c.phpBA: British Airways has become one of those companies that is trapped in an endless restructuring. Over the years, the UK airline has undergone successive rounds of cost cuts. The need for yet more is as urgent ever. Sales fell 14 per cent in the first half of BAs financial year, but costs were not removed fast enough to avert a record pre-tax loss of 292 million. And that was in the normally buoyant summer months.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375615Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:29 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375615http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/j_GuxqOhg9Q/storypage_c.phpUnitechs results for the September 2009 quarter were disappointing, with both revenues and profits falling below expectations. Revenues dropped by 48 per cent year-on-year while earnings fell 50 per cent year-on-year.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375467Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:23:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375467http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/Q5reIMpiAAs/storypage_c.phpThe company has done well to gain market share and should cash in on the recovering economy.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375485Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375485http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/_IMtUhTjqkg/storypage_c.phpAnother one almost bites the dust. Vishal Retail has been bailed out by its bankers who have put together a corporate debt restructuring (CDR) plan for the beleaguered company, which has piled up a debt of Rs 700 crore. Its a fresh lease of life but suppliers will be wary and will demand immediate payments which, in turn, will pressure the balance sheet.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375513Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375513http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/g_a4GlgMgO4/storypage_c.phpPay-per-second billing has become the norm in mobile telephony today. However, this was stimulated by the launch of Tata DoCoMo the nth entrant in a crowded category. Idea challenged the leaders Airtel and Vodafone with a very distinct brand advertising to stand out and get noticed in a cluttered market. DoCoMo used a pricing innovation to enter and make an impact. Though the jury is still out on whether it has worked and on what volume the brand has gathered, there is no doubt the brand has been noticed and the fact that competitors have followed imitated it is perhaps recognition that it has done things right. This will be a feature of brands and marketing in future.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375512Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:35 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375512http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/38gSPrQLn4E/storypage_c.phpFed: The Federal Open Market Committee in its statement November 4 left unchanged the language that its ultra-low rates would be kept for an extended period. By not even signalling an end to the current era of easy money, the central bank runs the risk of further inflating asset and commodity prices and sinking the dollar. The Feds mandate is to keep inflation and employment stable. Its hard to see how avoiding bubbles and the crashes that accompany them shouldnt be central to its mission.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375478Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:12 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375478http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/1XSAUnkIMv4/storypage_c.phpDisney: The Middle Kingdom is finally getting a Magic Kingdom. The Disney Company has been granted state approval to build a theme park and resort in Shanghai, an idea almost twenty years in the making. There is no guarantee that Chinese families will embrace Mickey and Minnie Mouse. But the countrys economic magic justifies Disney taking the investment risk.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375477Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:09:28 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375477http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/B9ktnXAI5jw/storypage_c.phpThis refers to Shyam Ponnapas Managing spectrum (November 5).http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375466Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:08:42 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375466http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/ikOnGmw0z6U/storypage_c.phpBCCI may just have priced itself out of the market. According to your story (Cricket sponsorship keeps some biggies in the pavilion, Nov 5), BCCI has made a steep hike in the base price for cricket rights. BCCI has done a great job coming up with the T20 format, but it has to realise that all pricing decisions have to be rational and have to keep in mind the competition.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375459Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:08:00 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375459http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Business-Standard-Opinion-Analysis/~3/VMgfXho52EA/storypage_c.phpThis refers to SEBI has greater powers than US SEC, October 26. It is stated that the only power that Sebi does not have is to send people to jail and that for all other regulatory action, it has powers to act by itself without having to knock on the doors of a court or a judicial body.http://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375465Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:55 GMThttp://business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=10&autono=375465