The metropolitan regions of Mumbai generally depend on the core city for its identity and economy. It could be differently designed and developed so the metropolitan region has a better economic activity and help depopulate Mumbai, writes Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Murali's presence in Australia had been in doubt ever since since Australian Prime Minister John Howard branded him a "chucker".
The Lafarge mining case has highlighted the appalling weakness of the environmental clearance procedures at all levels, writes Latha Jishnu.
The founder chairman of the Mittal Group M L Mittal has said that time is ripe to invest in India as the government is opening up more and more sectors for private investment.\n\n
'While most alarmist predictions about the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons are unlikely to materialise, instability is likely to increase unless Musharraf redirects the Pakistani ship of state.'
The former Australian captain said the Sri Lanka off-spinner's action is legal.
Sri Lanka Board officials said match referee Chris Broad made the report after the close of the third and final Test
The out-of-form middle-order batsman was omitted after regular opener Justin Langer was cleared to return from injury.
Indian foreign policy is listlessly meandering. At times, it stands still lost in thoughts and then it dashes forward -- and the next thing you know, it begins dashing backward. The pantomime seems to be happening with no greater logic than that it creates the illusion of a flurry of activity -- and our PM feels good and dynamic, says M K Bhadrakumar.
"If there were any illusions about how tough this tour was going to be, they were (shattered)," Wright said
Some recent happenings on the realty and SEZ fronts seem to bother nobody. What worries me is that if more of these events occur, my sense of reality may get altered, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
However, McLaren's David Coulthard warned Button not to be under any illusions.
'What do Congressmen want, five assured months in office before the general election is called or the possibility of being re-elected for another five-year term?'
Ferrari said Schumacher lapped the Italian circuit named after team founder Enzo Ferrari and son Dino in one minute 19.664 seconds.
The mistake the enemies of the deal in India and the US are making is to seek satisfaction over their own wish list.
The message, which was conveyed through the Chinese media in the days on the border talks was thus very clear: China continued to attach importance to a further improvement of its bilateral relations with India, but it will remain firm on its claims to Indian territory in the Arunachal Pradesh sector.
Apart from lack of regulation and risk assessment, there seems to be another factor at work as to why prudence and sense failed in such matters. New tools and concepts such as leverage, arbitrage and debt swaps which created virtual growth, ie, growth seen on the computer screens in banks without a corresponding reality in terms of brick and mortar or goods and services, contributed to the bubble and the illusion, says B S Prakash.
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