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FOREIGN RELATIONS


Dangers of Saltoro pull-back
There are indications that New Delhi is negotiating with Pakistan to pull back Indian forces from the strategic heights of Saltoro Range and establish an extensive demilitarised zone. But there should be no question of a pull-back from positions of s trategic advantage, unless foolproof mechanisms are devised to ensure prevention of a Kargil-type intrusion by Pakistan, says G. PARTHASARATHY. More

AIR CARGO


Export infrastructure yet to take off
It is inevitable that as the cost of air transport plunges there will be an increasing shift of high-value low-bulk commodities from international sea-lanes to global air routes. But does the country possess the infrastructure to meet the potential a ir cargo export boom? The air cargo boom portends a fundamental shift in the Indian export profile, even as the traditional export sector has been metamorphosing to meet the changing global demand. More

EDITORIAL


Cement worries
Should the Government intervene to correct prices when the rise is due to a demand-supply mismatch in construction boom? More

FOREIGN TRADE


Foreign Trade Policy needs FDI flavour
It is time for the Foreign Trade Policy to adopt a new strategy in the wake of a dramatic change in the global trade pattern. The decade-old area- and product-specific trade matrix needs a re-look. More

POLITICS


Reservation blues
The issue of reservations in educational institutions and the private sector has so caught everybody's imagination that some reporters have started seeing ghosts where none exist. A news agency report on a CII conference this week had the invitee ... More

IPR


Plagiarism: A form of intellectual property violation
One of the posters in Kaavya's Opal is said to be, "If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution— write your will." On page 35 of Salman Rushdie's Haroun, a 1990 children's novel, one of the warnings is, "If from speed you get ... More

GOVT BONDS


The `when issued' market
The RBI opens an avenue for Government Securities trading in a bearish environment More

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES


Ayurveda and yoga, not IT
Most Indians think it is the IT success story that has created mind space for India in the global arena, but that may not be totally true. A colleague just back from Germany found that young Germans at the Hannover Technology Fair associated ... More

PEOPLE


Galbraith: Scholarly and witty too
If a poll were to be taken of people who were highly scholarly and at the same time witty, Prof J. K. Galbraith would top the charts and for good reasons. He wrote incisively on a range of subjects, from economics to art and from politics to ... More

REPORTER'S DIARY
IT's mahajan
Pramod Mahajan, India's first Information Technology Minister, used to say that the IT sector had grown because there was no bureaucratic interference in the form of an IT Ministry. But on his death, Nasscom, the industry body, paid tribute to ... More

BOOKS


Being a success
Success formulas have been dominating writings on management for as long as one can remember. Google search engine lists 111 million items for books on ways of being successful! The contents of the writings are ... More

LETTERS


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