OPINION
EDITORIAL
Unnecessarily harsh?
THE CONTROVERSY TRIGGERED by the arrest of the Baazee.com Chief Executive Officer, Mr Avnish Bajaj, for selling objectionable material through the Internet auction site exposes the lacunae in the provisions of the Information Technology Act, ...
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ECONOMY
The growth mirage
Abundant optimism is needed while betting on the economic growth engine to touch 7-8 per cent. But misplaced optimism can be dangerous and lead to wishful thinking. Politicians and businessmen must realise that growth will come only from good policie s, backed by hard work.
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PUBLIC POLICY NOTE
Manufacturing strong growth
Though the service sector has made a significant contribution to GDP growth, its sustainability depends on a variety of extraneous conditions. So for sustained economic growth, exports and generating jobs, a strong manufacturing base is needed. For t his, manufacturing companies need to develop a global mindset rather than continue with the inward-looking attitude, says Bhanoji Rao.
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POLITICS
Complete the reform mission, Mr Speaker
IT WAS an ominous return to the not-so-good old days in Parliament last week — walkouts, anger over the absence of Cabinet ministers, members trooping into the well of the House, all climaxing in the Speaker's ...
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IPR
Patents, boon or bane?
Fears have rightly been expressed that the drug industry, the food-processing industry and even the software industry may face a crisis if the new WTO law governing patents is adopted from January 1, 2005. Unless we go into the basic rationale behind the patent regime, the interest of the poorer sections will suffer.
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INTERVIEW
To make 200 million tonnes, India needs `steel vision' — Mr B. Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel
"We need a long-term vision for the steel industry," says Mr B. Muthuraman, Managing Director, The Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd. This vision, according to him, has to look at what the country's steel production capacity is going to be in ...
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PRIVACY
Baazee.com case — Why was IPC not invoked?
THE failure of the Delhi police to invoke Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in effecting the arrest of Mr Avnish Bajaj, Chief Executive Officer of the auction Web site Baazee.com, on charges of allowing the ...
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Ensuring privacy
WITH Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)-enabled mobile, phones and video phones that can transmit data via 3G becoming popular by the day, laws at federal, State and local levels are in place in most ...
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