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1. Keeping out Lakshmi FE - Mon, Jun 30

   The world may be facing its first steel shortage in decades and it must be frustrating for the Indian steel industry—the government has adopted a policy to force down prices of steel artificially. 

2. It's a new, clear deal IE - Sat, Jun 28

   One of the toughest, and yet most enjoyable aspects of a political journalist's job is to figure out where truth lies when two fellow-travellers give you totally contradictory versions of the same story. 

3. Exit Gates FE - Sat, Jun 28

   Bill Gates kept his 2006 promise that he will quit from his day-to-day work at Microsoft—a company he founded in 1970 and which began its meteoric rise with the launch of MS-DOS in a tie-up with IBM in 1980. 

4. Quotas plus quotas don't add up in polls HT - Fri, Jun 27

   Politicians are forever trying to manipulate the reservation policy for electoral gains. 

5. Opec's got us over a barrel, let's play our cartel right HT - Tue, Jun 24

   Finance minister P. Chidambaram made an eloquent plea in Jeddah for the adoption of an oil price band mechanism in which consuming countries guarantee that prices would not fall below an agreed level while producing countries undertake that prices would not rise above a guaranteed level. 

6. It's time to say sorry HT - Sun, Jun 22

   ARE WE responsible for the distrust, even the alienation, Kashmiris feel when they consider their 60-year association with India? Have we betrayed promises, mistreated our fellow citizens, trampled on their rights and brutally shattered their dreams? Did our behaviour make the insurgency 'inevitable 

7. How far, Arunachal? IE - Sat, Jun 21

   Arunachal has been making news with the renewed exchange of claims and counter claims between India and China. 

8. The answer is thirty IE - Thu, Jun 19

   A foreign filmmaker who was following the progress of the students in Super 30, an institute that coaches underprivileged students for IIT, made a telling observation. 

9. Value add in UP HT - Thu, Jun 19

   Jamuna Prasad Nishad, Uttar Pradesh's Minister of State for Fisheries till recently, and now behind bars, is the fourth important BSP leader that Mayawati has swiftly punished for an alleged crime. The first was BSP MP Umakant Yadav accused last year of trying to grab property near Azamgarh. 

10. The original Hindu Rashtra HT - Wed, Jun 18

    Many years ago, I picked up a 31-page pamphlet with the intriguing title, King Mahendra and the RSS.