OPINION
NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
Diesel engines on vegetarian diet
DIESEL engines, unlike their petrol counterparts, are omnivorous in fuel consumption habits and can easily run on vegetable oils without any major changes in the engine. In the early 1950s, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, did ...
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EDITORIAL
Politics of PSU decision-making
THE OIL AND Natural Gas Corporation Chairman, Mr Subir Raha's outburst against contractors using political influence to secure deals is remarkable not because it drew attention to the phenomenon but because the CEO of a top public sector company ...
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ECONOMY
Preaching vs implementing best practices
Though the World Bank asserts that assisting India with best practice knowledge and financing for development are central to the Bank group's mission, doubts persist about the Bank's adherence to its own social and environmental policies.
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International trade and economic growth
Openness to trade is not by itself sufficient to promote growth. Macroeconomic and political stability and other policies are needed as well.
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POLITICS
Kashmir: Why not a Jointly Owned Demilitarised Area?
KASHMIR has been very difficult local, regional and global problem, causing three major wars and endless strife between India and Pakistan. Apart from the huge sums spent by both countries there is the loss of thousands ...
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TAXATION
Taxing service exports: Give up selective approach
As there is no service tax on any earnings in foreign exchange for `taxable service', some exporters of services are puzzled about the new foreign trade policy's exemption from tax of services exported. The whole issue is still nebulous, says G. Srinivasan.
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TERRORISM
Indescribable barbarity
THE world has lived with terrorism for many years now, and has seen the many forms of brutality it takes. But nothing that humankind has so far known comes anywhere near the acts of barbarism that have taken place in ...
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INTEREST RATES
More important that a proposition be interesting than true
NOW that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation is thinking about investing in equities, people may be too worried about the safety of their PF monies to think of any hike in interest rates. In the end, we may come ...
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LETTERS
Banks' consolidation
Planning Commission
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