Economy
WTO implications for IT sector
TWO FORCES -- information technology (IT) and free trade (FT) -- are forcing their way into the lives of people across the world. No society can consider itself immune from these forces that are changing substantially the lifestyles everywhere.

`Food scarcity situation is inevitable' -- Mr E. Chandrashekaran Nair, Kerala's Food and Civil Supplies, Tourism and Law Minister
IN A RECENT conversation in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala's Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Tourism and Law, Mr E. Chandrashekaran Nair, emphasised that the State's `model' public distribution system was being destroyed by the Centre's policy of ``tar getted'' food assistance which, he said, would affect the common man's interests.

Editorial
Pricey delay
IT IS THAT time of the year when, after the harvest and marketing of kharif crop, farmers start planting the rabi (summer harvested) crop. Indeed, rabi sowing -- be it of wheat, pulses or oilseeds -- has made considerable progress in large parts of the c ountry. But the distinct lack of enthusiasm among farmers is palpable; and it is not without reason.

Politics
Tale of two chads
THE protracted imbroglio over the swinging electoral fortunes of the two Presidential candidates in the US has contributed to human edification at least in one respect: It has added a new word -- chad -- to political vocabulary and shown how for want of a chad, White House itself can be lost. So, what is chad?

Water Management
Water woes
SOMEWHAT belatedly, the Centre has woken up to the dry spell in the country. The matter came up the other day before the Union Cabinet. There were several voices of concern. Consequently, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, constituted a committ ee of Cabinet Ministers to find out the territories facing the scarcity.

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