The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 03, 2003

A renewed thaw
SUDDENLY THERE IS a new warmth in the usually frigid Indo-Pakistani relations. After last week's historic announcement of a cease fire along the Line of Control comes the decision to resume air links between the two countries and to permit over ... More

AGRICULTURE

Agriculture subsidy, French style
France may soon have a number of farmers opting not to cultivate, as that would be deemed a lot more profitable. More

ENVIRONMENT

Economy playing dice with ecology
PERHAPS we live in the best of times in this planet, from the perspective of unsurpassed scientific and technological achievements, with a dazzling array of global output. Nonetheless, we can no longer ignore the grim ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Is sovereignty dead?
"...political philosophy must get rid of the word, as well as the concept, of Sovereignty... not only because (it) creates insuperable difficulties and theoretical entanglements in the field of international law, but because...this concept is ... More

HEALTH

Epidemics and the public good approach
ONE of the most direct results of globalisation is how much more likely we are to share diseases, with the explosion in foreign travel. Tuberculosis has re-emerged in Western cities, cholera is in danger of once again ... More

POLITICS

Elections: Does market know better?
Exit polls give Madhya Pradesh to the BJP and Delhi to the Congress(I), and suggest a BJP upset in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. But does the share market know different, from the way it has been going up? Rasheeda Bhagat looks at the post-electio n scene. More

DISINVESTMENT

The philosophy of privatisation in China
While China's privatisation exercise met with quick success despite Communist rule, India's is wobbling, hamstrung by parliamentary democracy. More

LETTERS

India-EU trade relations

Enemies within

India economy

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