The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Growth with integration
THE SRI LANKAN Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe's reference to a trade off between freedom and economic progress in his speech at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Millennium Lecture Series 2003 has all the ingredients to set off a ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Unified licence — Call of the big players
THE shadow boxing for the great telecom prize — a cellular market poised for explosive growth — has begun in right earnest. As expected, there has been a flurry of threats and counters of protracted ... More

POLITICS

Nukes, missiles and rogue states — China's tools for global influence
China uses missile and nuclear transfers to Pakistan and North Korea, both widely regarded as rogue states, to keep countries that it sees as adversaries, such as Japan and India, on their toes. Given the ambivalence of the US Administrations to the Beijing-Islamabad-Pyongyang `Axis of Proliferation', New Delhi will have to dealing on its own the security challenges it may face from the axis, says G. Parthasarathy. More

NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING

On the economics of media diversity
Recent controversies point not just to the weaknesses inherent in India's media policy but to the complex marketplace created by the nature of expansion of the media over the last decade. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh assess this complexity and the resulting threat to diversity and pluralism by examining the changing size and structure of the media business. More

WTO

WTO farm talks: A new churning
DURING the past week, the most important development that has occurred at the ongoing agriculture negotiations under the auspices of the WTO is the joining hands of member-countries such as India and China with the ... More

LETTERS

Free trade in South Asia

Unviable proposals

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