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Retail dreams
India can produce its home grown Tesco, writes Sunandan Roy Chowdhury, FT’s diarist at the World Economic Forum in New Delhi
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Indian executives sound crisis alert
Top executives in India’s leading market sectors of property and information technology issued warnings about a severe slowdown as the global financial crisis spills into one of the world’s most promising emerging economies
India’s IT executives fear worst slowdown
Companies sensitive to the global economy
India needs millions of toilets to meet development goal
78 toilets a minute need to be built
Pandora’s box warning over Indian telecoms
Fast-paced growth could unleash social change
India urges industry to avoid using farmland
Minister advises to move in sparsely populated parts
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FT Interviews
Duvvuri Subbarao: Indian call for united action over credit crisis
Greater monetary policy co-ordination across Asia would help the region to calm turbulent markets rocked by the financial crisis, the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India has told the FT
Ambika Soni: A dream of sending tourists off the track
James Lamont hears about the tourism minister’s ambitions to diversify
Call for foreign investment in Indian airlines
The chairman of debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines told the FT that New Delhi should to allow foreign airlines to take stakes of up to 25 per cent in Indian carriers to help the ailing aviation industry
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A conference of condolences
James Lamont reviews the World Economic Forum in New Delhi where the mood has been notably downcast
India wrestles with infrastructure demands
Improvements are apparent but taxation issues remain, says Rajesh Subramaniam of FedEx
Credit crunch snaps at outsourcing sector
But restructuring may provide new opportunities, reports Joe Leahy
Cash crops lead to ‘underdeveloped humanity’
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of the Isha Foundation, on India’s urban-rural conflict
Indian aviation ‘is on life support’
Destinations have multiplied without appropriate connectivity, says Suhel Seth of BA’s advisory board
Asian bankers remain overly cautious
Rajat Nag of the ADB says the region has witnessed an overreaction
Analysis
India grapples with poisonous legacy
Ankleshwar, in western Gujarat state, is listed as one of the most polluted towns on earth. It is a potent symbol of the price of India’s industrialisation and fast-paced economic growth
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The other dire side of India’s economic boom
James Lamont, the FT’s South Asia bureau chief, captures the human and environmental cost India is paying to reach its double digit economic growth dream
Business life
India’s lawyers court riches
While the world economy sags, India’s lawyers are enjoying a boom: A system that shuts out foreign firms has brought the rise of millionaire partners
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