The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 13, 2002

A good prescription
IN DRAWING UP the new drug policy, the Government has had the unenviable task of striking a balance between the domestic industry's interest and consumer concerns over rising prices of medicines. The way it has chosen to do so is to retain ... More

BUDGET

Will Budget reverse slow growth?
THE Government has taken quite a few decisions of significance for the economy, some of which will enter into the budgetary arithmetic while others should help tone up the industrial and investment climate. Hopefully, these moves represent a new ... More

POLITICS

Schools of bias
IT IS just as well that a man called Rajinder Sharma was arrested and deported from Dubai because he gave the lie to the dangerous notion that was beginning to take root that while all Muslims may not be terrorists, all terrorists seem to be ... More

Song and dance
CANDIDATES in the running for election to the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh Assemblies to be held shortly are literally making a song and dance about it. Issues have taken a back seat, and the stars of the silver screen are very much to the fore, ... More

STEEL

Steel in rural India: Big market waiting to be tapped
INDIAN steel production grew 2.5 per cent in the first six months of this fiscal. Together with the surplus capacity, this makes for a mutually reinforcing cause-and-effect relationship, impacting the sector's performance. Though recently the ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Sinha speculates on sugar futures
JUST as students suddenly wake up before the examination to the fact that they are not prepared for the test, the Finance Ministry too finds itself short of time to fine-tune things when the Budget is around the corner. It remains preoccupied ... More

LETTERS

Reservation problems

President's successor

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