The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, July 19, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
India-US Nuclear deal — The diplomacy-cultural context
Culture and diplomacy are the cornerstones of the whole issue. A fusion of the high- and low-context cultures is needed for the nuclear deal to come through. More

Pitting CDMs against CBMs
Briefly, the point must be made that while New Delhi has been trying assiduously over the past couple of years to strengthen confidence-building measures (CBMs) to improve the strained relations with Islamabad, the latter has been straining at ... More

EDITORIAL
Energies of the G-8
Guzzling more than half the world's oil, the G-8 has to respond more actively than making statutory worry noises. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
PPP, the new pep in infrastructure
PPP is the in-thing in infrastructure. `In Bengal, Left backs PPP in quest for growth,' reports Kolkata Newsline. `$100 billion of PPPs in next decade,' says The Australian, even as The Age, Australia alerts, `PPPs have ... More

POLITICS
Judicial deal
Forget the civil nuclear deal! Let us go immediately for a judicial deal with the US, under which all political VVIPs in India charged with crimes of various kinds — from murder, rape and kidnapping at one ... More

Cash in on the skills, cast away the divide
Indian political economists must strive to convert `caste skills' into business opportunities, leveraging their salability rather than casting them away. More

TERRORISM
Mumbai blasts: Tough response missing
The real spirit of Mumbai was seen in its putting forward its most resilient face to deny the terrorists their principal aim of dividing its citizens along communal lines. The best tribute to the memory of the victims would be to crack down hard on a nti-national forces and deliver the harshest penalty in the shortest time possible to those who plan, aid and execute such heinous crimes, says RASHEEDA BHAGAT. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Human resource development needs paradigm shift
India is perhaps one of the few nations with no clear policy on human resource development. It is time the country took a holistic view of human capital that may soon become the only benchmark of competitiveness. More

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Divestment and reforms

India-Asean FTA

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