OPINION
EDITORIAL
The regulatory static
WITH THE TELECOM Regulatory of India dropping radio paging from its quarterly report on the telecom sector, the industry has for all practical purposes ceased to exist. With wireless telephony offering both voice and messaging service, there were ...
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INSIGHT
A rude encounter with crude
CRUDE is getting cruder with prices rising to such record heights this week that even small retreats give much respite to markets. Oil companies are pushing the government to allow the retail rate rocket to zoom, and ...
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CORPORATE
Press Note 18: A way out of imbroglio
The Government is keen to scrap Press Note 18 as it believes that it is restricting fresh FDI flows. Indeed, there is merit in this, and one needs to take a dispassionate view. Tragically, no one is saying anything about the small investor, who could lose out in such a situation. This can be remedied. The government can ask the foreign investor to offer a market price, or shares, at the same value in the new venture to protect the small shareholder.
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POLITICS
White elephant
THE brouhaha over the induction of foreign consultants into the committees of the Planning Commission has deflected attention away from the fundamental question about the continued usefulness of the Commission itself. ...
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GENDER
Transforming lives of rural women
THE Common Minimum Programme (CMP) lays emphasis on empowerment of women as an important socio-economic goal. The UN Human Development Report for 2004, while noting the progress made in the status of women, notes that ...
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Iraq Survey Group's chance discovery — Oil as weapon of mass corruption
The Iraq Survey Group has stumbled on a shocking collusion among the Iraqi regime, UN officials, and contractors in more than 40 countries, including the permanent members of the Security Council, in subverting the UN-administered Oil-for-Food Progra mme into the biggest and the most extensive international racket of modern times. The ISG has compiled a catalogue of the high-profile operators of the spoils system, naming all the names and mentioning specific figures. Where will the chips fall, wo nders B. S. Raghavan.
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LETTERS
Fiscal deficit
Cabinet approval
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