OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Indo-Pak dialogue — Moving towards a new dynamic
The Foreign Secretary-level Indo-Pak talks in New Delhi have been a quiet success, with action and cooperation planned in a wide swathe of areas. While Pakistan has, no doubt, reacted guardedly to India's push for greater contact between Kashmiris on both sides of the border, the change in the composition of the government will hopefully soon see business and economics guiding the dynamics of Indo-Pak relations, says Rasheeda Bhagat.
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EMPLOYMENT
A case for equitable employment practice
ACCORDING to recent reports, the Indian industry was taken by surprise by the demands of some of the constituents of the new government to extend job reservations to the private sector. Representatives of the private ...
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EDITORIAL
Optimism on Doha Round
ON HIS VISIT last week to New Delhi, the WTO Director-General, Mr Supachai Panitchpakdi, exuded optimism over the Geneva negotiations on agriculture. He hoped the talks — to finalise a draft framework to be placed before the WTO General ...
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BUDGET
Budget 2004-05: Dipping into new resource streams
THE one person in whose shoes I would not like to be at this moment is the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram. Adroit and adept as he may be, Budget-making for the year 2004-05 is going to be very much like squaring ...
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ECONOMY
GDP: Don't count on it
IT IS a matter of regret that India, which now has a government blessed with the benefit of advice of the Left, continues to conduct its economic discourse on the basis of the distinctly coarse notion of the Gross ...
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POLITICS
Too many cooks
THE immediate thought that flits across the mind on reading reports of the constitution of the National Advisory Council (NAC) and its composition is that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is heading ...
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SMALL SAVINGS
Whose interest is it anyway?
If the interest rate on EPF deposits remains unchanged at the current 9.5 per cent per annum, the EPF Organisation would show a fresh deficit of around Rs 270 crore that would have to be covered through a subvention from the Union Budget. But if the rate is raised to 12 per cent, as many trade unions demand, the EPF would sink deeper into the red and require infusion of government funds upwards of Rs 2,000 crore.
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