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A dire forecast
COMING IMMEDIATELY AFTER a cruel year of extensive drought that forced considerable reduction in agricultural output and consequent slowdown in overall economic growth, the latest forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) that the ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


Motive forces for a new business model
If we consider that all material objects are a symbol of a reality behind them, and that the World Trade Centre was a symbol for an uncompromising financial development, then its destruction unequivocally states that the era of one-dimensional finan cial progress has ended, says Pravir Malik. More

POLITICS


Unjust to US?
A PROMINENT friend of mine, free of any ideological or political hang-ups, experienced in analysing world affairs and writing about them, was aghast at the ongoing vituperative US-bashing. The US was often stupid, he told me, in putting a halo ... More

A quick detour
`A few of our leaders also would like to follow your (Mr George Bush) example in the pre-emptive strike theory... Our leaders live on another planet. If they are not absorbed in self-aggrandisement, they are paranoid in reviving some forgotten glory. The present day problems faced by us all seem to elude them.' More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL


Crude olein imports: Trade in a tizzy
THE news report of Customs investigation into crude olein import has unnerved the trade. Some importers have taken exception to the investigation and claim they are innocent, and that the trade is being put to avoidable hardship. Their ... More

WTO


Globalisation is no Frankenstein
Though globalisation has helped a large number of poor come out of poverty, it continues to be attacked by all and sundry for reasons which are often inexplicable. Using the WTO as a bugbear has been quite a fashion with many. On the one hand, there are misgivings about it, while, on the other, there is a huge propaganda against it. More

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