OPINION
OUTSOURCING
Greenspan's green light
WHEN the Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, Mr Alan Greenspan, speaks, the US takes it as the gospel. His is always the last word in economic analysis. Whosesoever side he is on, wins. He has clinched the case in favour ...
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EDITORIAL
Let'em fly
INDIA MUST LEARN some flying lessons, quickly, from its small neighbours. Taking up the `open sky' offer made by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at the India-Asean summit at Bali last October, Myanmar Airways International has ...
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ECONOMY
India has to sustain the shine
India needs a second agricultural revolution urgently. Corporate captains should walk their talk and step up investments making the manufacturing revival a permanent reality. Then, irrespective of monsoons or oil prices or politics, a growth rate of at least 6.5 per cent would be achieved. That is what would make the India shining campaign credible, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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Asia in sharper focus
India and China must motivate and incentivise their vast stock of intellectual capital, and demonstrate that they are as capable as Japan and Korea of bridging the emerging technology gap with the US. This requires more than investment in buildings a nd equipment. India's institutions of learning should change their emphasis from rote learning to rewarding enquiry and technical and scientific innovation.
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ENGINEERING
Piezo injectors in diesel engines — Driving greater fuel-efficiency
Many companies are working on the piezo fuel-injector technology. At the Frankfurt show, Delphi unveiled the highly advanced piezo-based injector intended to meet stringent emission standards of US07 and Euro 5 for heavy vehicles.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Short-term investment is long-term bad for MFs
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India is planning measures to encourage retail participation in mutual funds. This is ironical because mutual funds as an investment option were primarily structured for retail investors. That ...
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EDUCATION
Little economic sense in tinkering with IIM fees
With the burgeoning demand for higher education in India, a fresh crop of private engineering and management institutes come up every year, providing courses for sums possibly much higher than what the IIMs charge. The HRD Ministry should make an eff ort to enhance the quality of such institutions rather than trying to drag down the few world-class institutions,
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BIO-TECH & GENETICS
Beware biotechnology farming
As of now, in biotechnology, whether it is in the US or in India, one is just operating at the periphery of molecular biology.
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