The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Unkept promises
IT IS REGRETTABLE that private basic operators continue to flout their contractual commitment to set up public telephones in villages, and the latest controversy over their seeking monies from the Universal Service Obligation Fund can only ... More

POLITICS

J&K: State in a stalemate
WHILE everybody was patting the Kashmiri voters for braving bullets and bombs and, worse, in the form of insincere promises by their politicians, and coming to vote, nobody expected that in the next round of the democracy exercise, they would be ... More

MANAGEMENT

Imperium in imperio
EVERY workplace functions at two levels. The open and visible one, governed by systems and procedures and peopled by functionaries with formal job descriptions. The relations between them are clearly defined and the channels of communications ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Punjab: The politics of power
Punjab is facing the tyranny of the elements, clumsiness in the Centre's policies and the misdirected forthrightness of the Chief Minister, who has decided to stop free power to farmers. Conceding that farmers get subsidies on account of power supply , Sharad Joshi thinks the Punjab move could have waited, and looks at the politics and economics of free electricity to farmers. More

LETTERS

States seek succour

I-T exemptions

India-Asean trade

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