OPINION
EDITORIAL
Costlier loans
DAMPENING THE DEEPAVALI mood, the HDFC chairman, Mr Deepak Parekh, has made housing loans costlier by half a percentage point and other lenders are sure to follow suit in the coming weeks. This ends the furious two years of chipping and chopping ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Telecom: Why higher FDI cap will not bring investors
CONTRARY to what the Ministry of Finance is claiming, the chances of foreign investors flocking to India after the cap on foreign direct investment (FDI) in telecommunications companies is increased to 74 per cent do ...
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AGRICULTURE
Agriculture and environment — Case for sustainability
AS AGRICULTURE evolved into a more productive activity, it became more energy-intensive too. In the process of this transformation, the varieties of crops chosen, though high-yielding, were found to be prone to epidemic ...
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Maharashtra farmers, a crossed lot
THE paddy farmers of the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra are in a quandary. They are receiving as assistance from the government crossed cheques for sums as small as Rs 50. They are in the totally in the dark about ...
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ECONOMY
Citizen-hostile
IT TOOK nearly 30 years after Independence for the Central and State governments to wake up to the need of infusing accountability into the administrative culture. Mechanisms to redress public grievances, simplify ...
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WATER
Inter-linking of rivers — Untested hype, unresolved issues
The project to interlink six major rivers promises to remain bedevilled for a considerable time by unresolved engineering, operational and financial issues. What it all amounts to is that paralysis by analysis having set in, the possibility of reconc iling the engineering aspects of the project any time soon seems remote, says B. S. Raghavan.
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LETTERS
Bush's comeback
Fuel price hike
Unemployment issues
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