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Powering up hydel projects
THE UNION POWER Ministry has for some time been talking of a "fast track" process for hydro-power projects and the exhortation by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to the States to speed up procedures for setting up hydel projects is ... More

AGRICULTURE


Agriculture and the `Spirit of St. Louis'
It is but fitting that the World Agricultural Forum should be headquartered in St. Louis, the heart of American agriculture. Its third biennial Congress provided the right platform for representatives of the farm sector to convey the clear message th at barriers to trade, technology and sustainability must be removed for the world to realise its full potential, says Sharad Joshi. More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


Why Microsoft won't hire me
AN article in yesterday's Financial Times, of London, described how an FT journalist and the HR manager of Microsoft swapped places for a day in England. One of the HR bosses in Microsoft told the FT journalist that all Microsoft staff ... More

RUBBER


Fixing the fair price of natural rubber — Growers should show more flexibility
WITH no authoritative study done yet on what the fair price for natural rubber should be, the subject has been a source of perennial controversy. Rubber growers are chary of coming out with their production cost, as it may impinge on their ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE


Image is everything
CORPORATE image is in the eye of the receiver. A company transmits a message about itself to its employees, shareholders, customers and other stakeholders. An organisation may assume that it communicates only when it wants to. Whereas, in ... More

INTERVIEW


'Give Kashmiris a fair deal' — Mr Wasim Mirza, Managing Director, Swiss Speciality Chemicals
Emerging from the "last couple of years of sheer hell" the Paksitan economy has now turned around and peace with India would make it go "only upward", says Mr Wasim Mirza, Managing Director, Swiss Speciality Chemicals, Karachi, in an ... More

EVENTS


Untold saga
TOMORROW marks the 50th anniversary of the conquest of Everest by two intrepid men — Mr Edmund Hillary (as he was then) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. It was the culmination of almost a whole century of effort mounted by equally brave, but ... More

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