Sinha's budget lacks a perceptible strategy for growth: Manmohan
Former finance minister Manmohan Singh has said that the Union Budget does not outline any clear strategy for growth and its highly protectionist measures would only promote inefficiency in the Indian industry in the name of providing a level-playing- field.

Playing market may not be gainful these days
Budget proposals have serious connotations for the stock markets each year. This was even more evident this year when the market lost an estimated Rs 45,000 crore in just three days. After the budget the market continues to be in a bearish mood. Surely, the market reaction would soon get tempered when a more thorough analysis of the impact of the budget proposals is made.

Bankers' training sessions: Is the party over now?
Now that the major recommendations of the second Narasimhan panel have been analysed threadbare, it's time to take a look at an innocuous-looking recommendation about the quality of bankers' training programmes tucked away in an obscure corner of the report. And that brings the neglected but crucial issue under a gimlet eye at last.