COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Globalisation blues
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) is the latest to join in the agonisation that nowadays invariably accompanies the very mention of globalisation. The credit or the opposite for this must go to the tens of ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
When less productivity is better than more for US
THE concern over jobs continues to haunt the US. It is fast becoming the campaign theme of the frontrunners for the Democratic Presidential candidacy, Mr John Kerry and Mr John Edwards. The issue is serious. While the economy grew 6 per cent ...
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REFLECTIONS
Early bird catches the...
GULPING down antibiotics, sold by India's leading pharma companies, to get rid of a bad cold did not allow one to take a morning walk for an entire week. That was not the way the family looked at it. "The cold would have gone on its own but you ...
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DOWN TO EARTH
National Commission on Farmers, at last
Nearly six months after the Prime Minister made the announcement, the National Commission on Farmers has been set up to prepare the road map for sustainable development of agriculture and optimising its contribution to growth and development of the e conomy, particularly improving the income and standard of living of farmers. But how much headway will it make, wonders Sharad Joshi.
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SAY CHEEK
CAS is `dead', long live confusion
IT is not only Bush who is confused whether Osama has been caught by the terror-busters, but also TV viewers on a different issue. To start with there was the ticker at the bottom of the screen saying something about CAS, and people thought it ...
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