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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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EDITORIAL


Beware the volatility
The structure of the market has undergone a change as to make volatility its essential ingredient. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


Telecom: A revolution in progress
Telecom has come a long way, from the fixed telephones to anywhere mobiles and the Internet era More

AGRICULTURE


Of farmer suicides and wheat situation
Can the increasing farmer suicides be explained away by attributing them to the increase in the population? And what of the bungling on the wheat front? More

POLITICS


Blood-curdling
The visuals of the savage beating by the Mumbai police of the young protesters against reservation, repeatedly telecast by TV news channels on May 13, must have left the viewers stunned. There was a tall ... More

Reservation conflagration
The reservations issue is a genie: When it is in the bottle it does not stir and can, in fact spawn a complacency which is totally misleading. People tend to forget that it is an issue at all. But when, for some reason or the other, the bottle ... More

EDUCATION


Education reform, a better bet than quotas
It easier to simply mandate a quota and get populist approval than implementing root and branch education reforms in a country the size of India with its complexities. But this simplistic approach, taken by successive governments, must end and seriou s education reforms put through if India is to emerge a knowledge economy, says SUMIT K. MAJUMDAR. More

FINANCIAL MARKETS


Is some more test of metal due?
The last question you may find answer for is `why metals.' Metals are commodities that are bought and sold. And commodities form a sizable chunk of the investment portfolio. More

HUMAN RESOURCES


Leveraging the human capital
Human capital has come of age. Nowadays, the rate of return on human capital is pretty steep. More

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