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Co-op bank mess
BANK FRAUDS SEEM to have acquired a regularity about them and, worse, are spreading to one of the least manned sectors such as the co-operative banks suggesting a sure pattern. From Madhavpura in Gujarat to the Home Trade-Nagpur District ... More

ECONOMY


Keynes is alive!
IN the long run, we are all dead, is an oft-quoted quip of Lord Keynes. But, in the long enough run, he is the one, it seems, who comes back to life. At least that is what the US is discovering. A time there was when, in that country, the ... More

POLITICS


Sri Lanka: Grappling with the LTTE dilemma
IT WAS an animated discussion over a sumptuous spread in the sylvan environs of the Taj Exotica at Bentota, about 65 km from Colombo. The academician at our table was attending an IMF/Ceylon Chambers of Commerce-sponsored conference on the need ... More

The Great Caspian Game
This is the Great Game of the new millennium, and the Caspian Sea could be the Persian Gulf of the coming decades. Ostensibly to suppress terrorism, Operation Enduring Freedom secured its approaches for America. More

TECHNOLOGY


Toxic threat from dumpsites
MUCH of the throwaway attitude that prevailed in the American way of life, even until the late 1960s, is disappearing and giving place to refreshing concepts of recycling and recovery of material. The practice of segregation from garbage ... More

In a web of e-services
WEB Services are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the Web. Web services link servers over the Internet to exchange data and combine information in new ways. Web service ... More

MANAGEMENT


Payroll outsourcing pays
HARVARD Business School has identified outsourcing as one of the most significant breakthroughs in the field of management in the 20th century. It is defined as the strategy of identifying the core competence, turning the management's focus on ... More

FOODGRAINS


Chinese checkers on the food policy front
CHINA has been officially admitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), more than 15 years since it first sought entry — in the Uruguay Round, that is. With this, a completely new economic scenario will unfold in Asia. Economic analysts ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY


Two nations, two agricultures
THE conference of the US House-Senate on Farm Bill 2002 is reviewing the agreement announced by the negotiators in a news conference on April 26. The Congress will, most likely, approve the Bill and send it to the President, Mr George W. Bush for ... More

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