OPINION
EDITORIAL
Pumping up hydrogen
THE SPIRALLING COST of crude and the finite nature of fossil fuels have brought the focus sharply back on renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and hydro. For countries such as India, renewables will undoubtedly be a real option, ...
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ECONOMY
Mystery of India's growth
India's democracy has been able to stave off the social Darwinsm inherent in the neoclassical ideology which would have transformed deprivation and subordination into a policy of systematic exclusion. Probably, the mood was set by the Nehruvian aller gy to the 19th Century neo-liberal concepts. The Nehruvian economic legacy included the meta-institutions of democracy, the rule of law, free press and the technocratic bureaucracy that recent research shows are crucial to economic development, says T. C. A. Ramanujam.
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FOREIGN TRADE
India-Asean FTA — Small step for a big stride in world trade
An FTA with Asean will give India an opportunity to look beyond trade. This will undoubtedly bring India closer to its target of achieving 2 per cent share in global trade.
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PHARMACEUTICALS
How open are the drug trials?
The US Department of Health Services is to establish a registry that will ensure that the results of all clinical trials conducted in the US are available to the public on an electronic database. Considering the factors that have made pharma MNCs se t up base in India, there is an urgent need for similar legislation here.
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POLITICS
NRI Ministry: Diaspora's hope buoyed
IT IS more than three months since the Government created an exclusive ministry to look after the welfare and problems of non-resident Indians. The NRI Ministry is still in its nascent stage. Among its challenging tasks ...
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BANKING
China accelerates banking reforms
WELL before the deadline set for the full opening up of its banking sector, China has started making it easy for foreign banks to operate. If it is in a hurry it is because at the next Olympic games in Beijing in ...
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TRENDS
Restoring values
A GRUESOME tragedy was enacted a few days ago in Chennai by four drunken youths in a car (which ominously carried the sticker "Venom Racing") chasing a young girl driving in a motorbike and running over and killing her ...
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LETTERS
Harbinger of mass education?
BSNL-MTNL merger
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