OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Bush victory: Time to build on US-India partnership
With George W. Bush back in the White House, the nation's security will certainly be the foremost priority of his Administration. The election pledge to exterminate terrorism may have a beneficial fallout for India in that the US may be able to make Pakistan conform to accepted norms of behaviour. On the business and technological fronts, however, India has some catching up to do, says B. S. Raghavan.
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EDITORIAL
Bush is back
IN AN IRONIC twist, the American people decided to unite behind a person who has perhaps divided them the most. No recent President of the United States polarised people more than Mr George W. Bush, yet he won their mandate for a second term in ...
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ENVIRONMENT
Draft Environmental Policy: Inadequate economic inputs
The Draft Environmental Policy, which is available on the Ministry's Web site till November 30 for comments, makes passing mention of such concepts as incomparable value, cost-benefit analysis, economic efficiency and polluter-pays. But it has not en tirely succeeded in incorporating economic inputs.
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PETROLEUM
Bullish on crude, bullish on bonds
If the crude oil price rises in the coming year it is bound to drag down economic activity rather than stoke consumer price inflation.
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Investment Commission — New window to old problems
If access to markets, distribution networks, technologies and strategic assets such as brand names are the main motivations for Indian companies to go abroad, similar advantages are woefully absent for foreign investors here. Without addressing these lacunae, setting up another agency called the Investment Commission would only serve the purpose of adding to the transaction costs of potential investors, domestic and foreign.
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SPORTS
First tests could have occurred in discarded skulls doubling as cups
MORE than one `test' is in the air. "Damp start to the Mumbai Test," is a headline from CricInfo.com, the UK, while Boston Globe reports of Tyler Hamilton's cycling team challenging the method of a drug ...
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BOOKS
Meddling with Mahatma
IT seems that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government could never have enough of meddling with others' writings on one count or another. While on the one side the top political brass was up to the ears in ...
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LETTERS
VAT implementation
Glittering gold
Credit Policy
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