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The ADC imbroglio
THE STAND-OFF BETWEEN private telecom operators and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd over access deficit charges (ADC), if unresolved by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, can snowball into a telecommunications crisis. Not only have private CDMA ...
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ECONOMY
How is Indian industry faring?
A sharp rise in the services share in India's GDP, coming at a time when services exports are booming, has been used to argue that the country is on a new growth trajectory in keeping with global trends. But behind these figures, argue C. P. Chand rasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, is a disconcerting trend in manufacturing growth that official figures are not revealing in full.
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SEZs have to be special
The Special Economic Zones will become popular and really take off in the manner desired only if the proposed law governing them conforms to and upholds the basic concept behind the zones. Further, the rules and procedures must place minimal restrict ions and impose limited obligations, besides guaranteeing the developer and the units in the zone full freedom. Otherwise, the objective of making SEZs engines of growth can never be realised, says P. P. Prabhu.
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Bombay Plan and mixed-up economy
After the shift quite far to the Right under the previous BJP-led regime, the economy is seeing a shift Leftward, harking back to the Bombay Plan and the mixed economy concept of Jawaharlal Nehru. But is it moving towards a "mixed-up" economy? Af ter the shift quite far to the Right under the previous BJP-led regime, the economy is seeing a shift Leftward, harking back to the Bombay Plan and the mixed economy concept of Jawaharlal Nehru. It is another matterthat the idea of incorporating the best elements of both capitalism and communism/socialism did not quite happen, and in practice, the country got a mix of the worst of both systems, and ended up as a "mixed-up" economy.
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TRENDS
On suicides
WOULD sociologists call the contemporary times an era of suicides — particularly with reference to India? Almost everyday there are reports of suicide. Currently, the victims happen to be predominantly ...
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