The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Sowing a new policy
DESPERATE ATTEMPTS OVER the past year and half to drawdown the massive wheat and rice buffer stocks through open market sales and exports have cut the inventory to about 45 million tonnes as at the beginning of the new fiscal, from the ... More

HEALTH

Pitiless CGHS
ON March 30, the Central Government published full page advertisements all over India in which it promised to provide more responsive and citizen-friendly services to the public, and announced the setting up of a Public Grievance Redress ... More

PETROLEUM

Why oil shocks may not hurt India much
EVEN as the US-led forces launched war against Iraq, India began to stock oil — the maximum it can being two months' requirement. And with oil imports accounting for as much as 70 per cent of the demand, the country has initiated ... More

POLITICS

Fund-Bank meetings — Limited truce over Iraq
It would be misreading the situation to see in the limited agreement in Washington on international engagement in Iraq's reconstruction as a rapprochement between the US and the European powers. The Fund-Bank meetings also did not hold out much promi se on other vital issues on the agenda beyond the customary reaffirmation of commitment to promote global recovery and further progress on trade and aid fronts, says S. Sethuraman. More

INTERVIEW

`Lanka economy key to peace process' — Mr Sunil Bastian, Research Fellow and Development Consultant, ICES, Colombo
As the Sri Lankan peace process draws closer to a political settlement, "I don't expect Prabhakaran to play a political role," says Mr Sunil Bastian, Research Fellow and Development Consultant, International Centre for Ethnic Studies in ... More

LETTERS

Patents and competition

BSNL decision

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