OPINION
EDITORIAL
Save the cotton
THE PROSPECT OF a record harvest notwithstanding, a crisis is brewing for cotton farmers. The preliminary crop estimates doing the rounds are more damaging to farmers than rewarding. Reports of the upcoming bumper crop (for the second year in a ...
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ECONOMY
Significance of China's economy to global growth
IT SHOULD come as no surprise that China is a dominant player in the world economy today. A huge economy that has maintained a consistent record of over 9 per cent annual growth for over two decades will naturally ...
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Mid-term appraisal of Plan targets — An opportunity for experts to get real
The Mid-Term Appraisal presents the Planning Commission an opportunity to tackle certain problems head-on. Dr Ahluwalia and his team will have to plot the right route to bridging the differences between the Finance Ministry and the planners. And he m ust find a way to translate the Plan targets into realisable goals, given the political reality of the coalition, the NCMP and the looming resource crisis. Above all, implementation has to get priority.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
No advantage, global investing
UTI Mutual Fund proposes to launch a fund that will invest in stocks constituting the Dow Jones Global Titans 50. This proposal brings to the fore the broader issue of Indian investors taking exposure in global stocks. ...
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PETROLEUM
Petro-product prices — Soft-pedalling can hurt govt hard
THE United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government appears to be treading on thin ice on the issue of oil price adjustment even as the crude price zooms relentlessly. How else does one describe the Government's ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Getting the cream for civil services
If the quality of Indian administration is to improve, staff selection must be pushed down, even beyond the Hota panel suggestion, to the school level. Like the khoa test of dairymen, it will force colleges and schools to send their cream without adu lteration, or face the risk of having their quota reduced and even disqualified altogether. Such multi-level selection is more egalitarian than the mass examination system now followed, says P. V. Indiresan.
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PEOPLE
Derrida's derring-do
ALTHOUGH Jacques Derrida (who recently died) is hailed by Western scholars for having performed a philosophical derring-do by propounding his theory of deconstruction, the fascination for the mysteries of words is as ...
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