The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Confusion continued
WIRELESS IN LOCAL loop phone services must work only within the local area. That is what the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal had ruled two months ago. And that is what the Government on Sunday ... More

AGRICULTURE

Breaking free from industrial agriculture
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and ... More

ECONOMY

`One country, two systems' formula under test
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in ... More

POLITICS

Iraq... where there are more questions than answers
ONE of the saddest and, perhaps in the long term, the most horrific, aspects of the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq is the push the country seems to be getting in the direction of religious fundamentalism. ... More

Political earthquake
FROM body building to body politic? Well, that is the nature of the dramatic transition the former fitness buff and the current hero of action-cum-adventure packed movies, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger has made in California ... More

WTO

Cancun: A mere show of strength
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be ... More

Cancun is dead, long live WTO
Those who are gloating over the failure of the Cancun Ministerial and hoping that the WTO is dead are as wrong as they can be. The trade body and negotiations will live on, but hopefully become more open and less complex, says Sharad Joshi. More