OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Pakistan and China: The Manmohan Singh approach
The President, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's address to the joint session of Parliament and the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's recent remarks indicate that New Delhi is perhaps finding the recipe to make foreign policy seem less Pakistan-centric. While Dr Kalam's address spoke of expanding "political and security exchanges with China," there are other issues of the region, and of course global terrorism, says G. Parthasarathy.
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EDITORIAL
Tilting at fund transfers
THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA, in true Don Quixote style, has decided to track live, fund transfers across the financial system to trap those playing with public funds. In mimicking Western regulatory models, the RBI believes that some Systemically ...
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ECONOMY
Debate on reform and development
Reforms in India have failed to focus on the end objectives of development, namely, reduction of poverty and improvement in the quality of life of bulk of the population.
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MANAGEMENT
Effective executive
WERE you casting about in utter ignorance for some clues about what makes for an effective executive? Lucky you! The Harvard Business Review (HBR) has not one, but nine, to offer — all so facile that it is ...
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BIO-TECH & GENETICS
Biotechnology: The encoded message
BIOTECHNOLOGY involves the use of information on genetically controlled traits, combined with the technical ability to alter the expression of those traits, to provide enhanced biological organisms, which allow mankind ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Needed, many more IRMAs
THE Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is understood to have recently lectured the dons of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta — on the advisability of ...
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INTERVIEW
`We are an investment-friendly government' — Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal
We still have an image problem in various parts of the country and abroad. One reason is that we are a Left Front Government and many people are uncomfortable with the word "Left". Recently I told a foreign envoy that if you can do business with Chin a, why can't you do business with us?
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LETTERS
Dairy cooperatives
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