OPINION
EDITORIAL
The muddle over a charge
THE ACCESS DEFICIT Charge regime is headed for a prolonged debate with the two opposing camps — the incumbent, Bharat Sanchar Nigam, and the domestic private telecom operators — holding diametrically divergent views. While BSNL is ...
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BUDGET
Budget 2004-05: Mirage of goodies for farm sector
Despite the Government's right noises on support to the agriculture sector, there is no clear roadmap to boost farm growth. Addressing the debt-related crisis by promising more credit can only lead to greater indebtedness. What the farmers need is an assured income and the same kind of direct investment that the Government is willing to pour into the industry sector. Also, the blind advocacy of crop diversification should cease, as it will lead to a food security crisis, points out Devinder Sharma.
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ECONOMY
No `one-ways' in globalisation
Globalisation, as most countries have to come to finally comprehend and accept, is not only inexorable and inevitable but also largely beneficial despite short-term restructuring pain and suffering.
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Power of productivity
THAT the Budget 2004, crafted by a dream team of a government wearing pro-poor symbols on their sleeves, should be the causus belli for the Left Parties, to clamour against privatisation per se and hike in ...
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POLITICS
Intelligence imbroglio over Iraq war — Will needed lessons ever be learnt?
FOR THE nether world of intelligence, the last four weeks have been momentous in that both the Senate Intelligence Committee of the US and the Lord Butler Committee of the UK have come out with their reports on the ...
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91st Constitutional Amendment: Not quite adequate
ON July 7, the 91st Amendment to the Constitution, limiting the size of the Council of Ministers at the Centre and the States to no more than 15 per cent of the numbers in the Lok Sabha or the State Legislature, came ...
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TAXATION
A tax that needs thought
THE somewhat saucier sections of the media have acronymised the name of the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, to PC — and then expanded the initials into "politically correct Chidambaram." The Minister, for ...
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LETTERS
Fertiliser pricing
Environmental education
Cause for concern
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