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Sarkozy’s Burqa Ban

The French President, Nikolas Sarkozy, recently made comments against muslim women wearing the burqa. A ban may succeed in getting passed by the Parliament. But, is it right to do so?

Dodo Dollar

Had the US government respected the dollar, it wouldn’t have out-served its purpose as a global currency. China’s central banker Zhou Xiaochuan recently made strong case to dethrone the dollar. There’s only one problem: 70% of China’s $2 trillion in foreign reserves is in US Dollars.

Deflation: Now playing at a city near you

What really captures imagination and concerns of a majority of Indians are prices of daily consumables. There are wide-spead concerns that the Indian economy may go into deflation by the second quarter of financial year 2009-10 as there are fears of inflation going below zero per cent in the face of unprecedented fall in crude [...]