The Hindu Business Line : Friday, April 08, 2005

F-16s for Pakistan — Implications for India-US relations
The US supply of F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan and the offer to India has raised the bogey of arms race in the sub-continent. Indeed, the US offer was in response to India's world-wide enquiries and, more important, is Washington's offer of coope ration in the development of nuclear energy. India's effort, says G. Parthasarathy, should be to develop a bipartisan consensus in the US on issues of vital security interest to us. More

EDITORIAL

Making cyber safe
IT IS HEARTENING to note that the evaluation by the Government-appointed Expert Committee of the legislative framework of the Information Technology Act is apace. Hopefully, the Committee's recommendations will resolve the issues thrown up by the ... More

AIRLINES

What is the future of the travel agent?
AIR-INDIA, as chairman of BAR (Board of Airline Representatives), has announced that travel agents' commissions on international tickets will be reduced from 7 per cent to 5 per cent, effective May 1. Most other ... More

ECONOMY

Economic, demographic challenges for EU
ON TUESDAY, the European Union (EU) unveiled an ambitious and unprecedented plan to spend $14,500 million (11.3 billion euros) during 2007-13 on training and rehabilitating displaced workers in the region where ... More

CREDIT CARDS & DEBIT CARDS

Plastic rules: Light at the end of tunnel?
THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asking the Indian Banks Association (IBA) to evolve a code of conduct for issuing credit cards and the setting up of a working group for evolving a regulatory mechanism for credit cards ... More

INVESTOR PROTECTION

Protecting the `real' investors
SOME 20 million households are invested in equity shares. This includes both retail and high net worth individuals. To draw more individuals into the equity fold, the Securities and Exchange Board of India has ... More

PEOPLE

The Papal encounter-II
WELCOME back! Where were we before the break? Ah, yes: That sunny morning on Palm Sunday of 1979 in Rome was in stark contrast to the dark gloom enveloping me, deposited among prelates and plenipotentiaries apparently gathered to perform esoteric ... More

LETTERS

GDP targets

Grooming indiscipline

India-China ties

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F-16s for Pakistan — Implications for India-US relations