The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 22, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
Rajya Sabha debate on Nuclear Deal — The morphing of a PM
Dr Manmohan Singh's Rajya Sabha speech left MPs and eminent scientists who were deeply uneasy about the nuclear deal satisfied and reassured. Nuclear power may or may not be the answer to India's energy needs, but Dr Singh certainly removed the uneas e about a sell-out, says B. S. RAGHAVAN, terming his speech a notable piece of Parliamentary performance. More

Prime Minister's assurances
Full civil nuclear cooperation: India will be satisfied with nothing less than the removal of restrictions on all aspects of cooperation and technology transfers pertaining to civil nuclear energy, ranging from nuclear fuel, nuclear ... More

EDITORIAL
Russia-US trade off
Moscow must not turn the WTO negotiations into one more battleground in its image war with Washington. More

INSIGHT
A blip that is worrying
I belong to the generation that went to school and college in Andhra Pradesh in the 1960s and the 1970s. The State was a laggard and hardly existed in New Delhi's scheme of things those days. Not until a man by ... More

ECONOMY
Rural development and planned urbanisation are fully compatible
At the present juncture in the development history of the country it is perhaps right to pause and seek agricultural development with well-planned urban growth. More

Crafting double-digit growth
To maintain growth in a sustained manner, the secret is in giving due importance to our roots, that is, agriculture and the village industries sector and intervene to craft their growth. More

The flip side of quasi-fiscal activity
The government often resorts to the use of off-Budget activities for public policy purposes that can be duplicated by specific fiscal measures. But such quasi-fiscal measures have a flip side. Not only do they defeat the signalling mechanism of price s, they tend to promote opacity by disguising the real fiscal position. More

TAXATION
Streamlining tax laws
An update on some major I-T Act changes More

MANAGEMENT
PERSPECTIVE
Rationale of management
The 20th century triggered some of the most significant innovations, the kind of which the world had not seen before. Antibiotics and vaccines have more than doubled the human life span. Automobiles and airplanes have redefined the concept of ... More

LETTERS

MP salary hike

Cola controversy

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