The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 30, 2002

The `mobile' postman
THE PROPOSAL DOING the rounds in the Ministry of Communications on equipping the vast army of postmen in the country with `mobile' handsets deserves to be seriously pursued. At an operational level, the proposal represents a strategic response by ... More

ECONOMY

Heading towards a hunger trap
WITH about 815 million people around the globe going to bed with empty stomachs each day, the chief of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has this to say about food and hunger. "We say, before you go and have a special meeting of the G-8 ... More

Swadeshi vs globalisation
THE globalisation lobby holds that swadeshi is outdated, it indicates an unwillingness to upgrade production facilities to global standards; and Indian industrialists love swadeshi because it enables them to sell their shoddy ... More

POLITICS

In the shadow of Chaplin and Gandhi
CHARLES Chaplin was arguably the foremost comic genius in the history of cinema. Born into poverty, he survived the bleak rigours of a late Victorian workhouse, never knowing his father and suffering the early anguish of his mother's insanity. ... More

Clinton studies
STUDENTS and scholars, pursuing the evolution of political thought and political institutions, study in detail the ideals and theories propounded by thinkers from Plato to Karl Marx. Thoughts of some of these philosophers have been studied in ... More

WATER MANAGEMENT

National Water Policy 2002 — Thirsting for water security
IN APRIL, the Centre adopted the National Water Policy 2002, which, for the first time, recognises water as a precious `national asset', a part of larger ecosystems that is to be treated as an essential environment for sustaining all life forms. ... More

MANAGEMENT

Liaison for success
VENKAT'S help was sought by his previous employer, a Chartered Accountant, when he wanted to visit Tirupati, and Venkat promptly obliged him by writing to his classmate working as a lecturer at Sri Venkateswara University. When the Chartered ... More

LETTERS

Giving postal service its due

Talk on PoK, not on Kashmir

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Rocket science for lighter `Jaipur foot'

`Labour costs eroding India's edge in textile sector: Study

Under-invoicing in soyabean oil imports

Software cos' profit margin not impressive

Heading towards a hunger trap

Professional education expanding by semester

Q1 profit numbers muted for PSBs

In Depth
Gender Justice