The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Jumping the gun
IS IT NOT a bit too early for the RBI Governor, Dr Bimal Jalan, to predict a 6 per cent GDP growth, on the back of monsoon predictions, when the first month of 2003-04 is not yet out? For last year, the RBI had forecast a 6-6.5 growth, scaled it ... More

POLITICS

Another offer to Pakistan
After the Prime Minister's Kashmir visit, once again India and Pakistan are delicately poised on the fulcrum called Kashmir. How they handle this issue will determine whether they live in peace, as good neighbours, or be at each other's throats, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

EDUCATION

Governor as catalyst
THE initiative taken by the Tamil Nadu Governor, Mr P. S. Ramamohan Rao, in his capacity as the Chancellor of Universities in the State, to tone up their working is timely. Education, like weather, is talked about by everybody, with hardly anyone ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

Bt cotton fiasco: A scientific fairytale
IN THE mid-1980s, a World Bank team was travelling through parts of the frontline agricultural State of Haryana, assessing the impact of its `dream' project — Training and Visit (T&V) System — of farm extension. That was the time ... More

Farmers want freedom, not panacea
Can farmers be denied access to technologies for reasons that occur to only the extreme purists in the governmental technology establishment? This is the real debate. It is not a mud-slinging match between the champions and opponents of Bollgard; it is a campaign for securing for farmers the freedom of access to technologies that have had fair trials elsewhere in the world. More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

FDI and environment effect
As more countries develop, the competition increases for limited FDI funds that speed the development process. The process of luring foreign investors sometimes includes a commitment to more lax enforcement of environmental standards. More

CO-OPERATIVES

Whose Dhara is it anyway?
IF there are better instances of there being wheels within wheels, it would indeed be a very close call. How else would one describe the fact that the sales accruing from Dhara (edible oil) gets reflected in the turnover of the Gujarat ... More

LETTERS

Reconstruction of Iraq

The chained elephant

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