OPINION
EDITORIAL
Timely integration
THE PROCESS OF appointing investment advisors to examine the synergies between Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), which has just been initiated by the Government, marks the revival of a proposal that was shelved a ...
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ECONOMY
Economic reform and inflation
The Government's expectations that inflation would subside with the revival of the monsoon have been belied. Analysing the factors contributing to the current inflation, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh argue that the problem is lin ked to the context created by liberalisation and is not easily managed within that policy framework.
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PETROLEUM
China bracing for energy demand
MORE often than not, the pace of economic growth of India and China has been a topic of keen interest among intellectuals, policy-makers and even the common man. Most recently, the Finance Minister quoted the example of ...
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PHARMACEUTICALS
India's health-care paradox
For a country that has not been able to eradicate many preventable diseases, India has an unusually healthy pharma industry. Most globalised of all Indian industries, the pharma sector however produces and sells huge quantities of the kinds of drugs the country does not really need. It must not ignore the enormous health-care problems that afflict large sections of the population, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
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POLITICS
US Presidential sweepstakes 2004: India can relax either way
THERE is no gainsaying the fact that, with the advantage of his being both the head of state and the head of government, the US President can, if he so wished, make or mar relations with any country by exercising his ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Middle-lane gene
THEY call him Peter, though his name is Manoj Patra. It is a fashion in modern offices to give an anglicised sobriquet to blunt the rasp of strange sounding names. He has been with the firm for over 15 years. Because of ...
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LETTERS
Administrative reforms
Foreign hand
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