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OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
India-Pakistan PM meet — Can they untie the Gordian knot of Kashmir?
It is clear that the Pakistani team is coming prepared to discuss a wide range of issues. However, the outcome of this meeting will depend on whether both sides are approaching it with a determination to muster the will to succeed, or at least take the long drawn out negotiations closer to a definitive conclusion. For this to happen, the talks should not get once again bogged down in a dialogue of the deaf over Kashmir.
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EDITORIAL
Plane dithering
THE RECENT NOD from the Public Investment Board (PIB) for the state-owned Indian Airlines to purchase 43 Airbus aircraft raises another important issue: Acquisition of planes by Air India. Consider the situation till now. The Indian Airlines ...
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AGRICULTURE
The continuing possibilities of land reform
Land reforms are typically thought of only in terms of land redistribution, which is seen as politically too difficult to attempt. But there are a range of other measures which are very important in ensuring not only better equit y in agriculture but also greater viability of farming and improved agricultural productivity. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss some of these issues and pos sibilities, taking rural Andhra Pradesh as the specific example.
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ECONOMY
PUBLIC POLICY NOTE
Ensuring sizable FDI flows — Matter of good homework, concerted action
The soon-to-be-set-up Investment Commission should lose no time in putting in place strategic initiatives that push-start the investment-growth-investment cycle. Going beyond such predictable measures as tax concessions, it must detail a work-plan th at prioritises thorough homework before meetings with company CEOs and involves the best efforts of the diplomatic corps in bringing economic benefits to the country, says Bhanoji Rao.
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LIFESTYLE
Fast-food forward — the American way
THE SUV cruised at a steady 75 kmph and I was snatching a snooze when the excited shrill of a 16-year-old from the back roused me with a start. "I hop," she shouted. "Why, what's wrong?" I asked, scared, and ...
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BANKING
Banking on experience
MAYBE it is a lapse of security or a breach of trust. It does not matter. That the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, was robbed of a sizeable sum through fraudulent use of his automatic teller machine ...
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