Corporate
`Cost pressures make Q1 growth unsustainable'
COST pressure in the form of high petroleum product prices and increased wage outgo due to higher inflation have put a question mark over whether the strong corporate performance in the first quarter of the current fiscal can be sustained, according to a study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

Economy
The move towards smaller States -- A Consensus in favour sharing the spoils?
THE President has given his assent to the formation of the States of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttaranchal. But of course it is going to be a while before any Government comes into being in these infant States. The delay is because of a number of formal ities, that is the essence of political midwifery on such occasions, that may have to be gone through before they can be added to the population of States in the Indian Union.

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