OPINION
EDITORIAL
PSU — paradox or dream?
GOING BY HIS latest pronouncements about public sector units (PSUs), the Prime Minister qualifies eminently for the famous definition of a superior mind that can at once hold two opposing ideas in balance. The PSU must be managed efficiently. It ...
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ECONOMY
Financing CMP: Banking on World Bank
INDIA is desperately short of investment resources. Public investment on a massive scale is needed in key areas of economic and social development if India is to get rid of poverty in two decades while achieving ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
New Foreign Trade Policy — In step with the times
In an era of globalisation, when competitiveness is the key to success in building resilience in the export industries, the trade strategy has to mesh fiscal policy with investment planning, especially focussed on export sectors. Besides increased tr ade, this will also subserve the domestic goal of economic development with adequate employment generation.
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POLITICS
Historic declarations
CERTAIN statements made by famous persons in certain historical contexts are indelibly etched in memory. The exclamation by King Louis IV, "L'etat c'est moi!" (The State! I am the State!) is the earliest that ...
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POWER
Will nuclear energy gain greater acceptability?
WILL the 21st century see an upswing in the fortunes of nuclear power? Will this clean source of electricity be able to put behind it the lingering threat of a holocaust, and power ahead? Are fail-proof, totally safe ...
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WATER
A mega clean-up in US
Utility companies, municipal agencies and, lately, the Department of Environmental Quality in the US act with deep concern for ensuring unpolluted water for the citizens.
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TERRORISM
Terror in Beslan — Not justified by any cause
Fanaticism and fundamentalism have their limits, when these are crossed, as they were with horrific and tragic consequences in Beslan, people who rebel for a cause not only make themselves and their cause a grotesque comedy, they paint an entire comm unity or religion black, says Rasheeda Bhagat.
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LETTERS
System evaluation
Pension regulator
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