The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 17, 2007

AWARDS & HONOURS
Climate, Nobel and Al Gore
The Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and the IPCC have turned the lukewarm concern over rise in global temperatures into a groundswell of support for action to mitigate it. China and India may do well to place before the world community their strate gies and Plans of Action to reduce their greenhouse gas intensities, says N. R. KRISHNAN. More

EDITORIAL
Growth pangs
The Government should have learnt from recent history that any structural shift in the distribution of resources (or costs) for development creates insecurities that need to be addressed. More

AGRICULTURE
Multilateralism is here to stay
Will the collapse of the Doha Round lead to the end of multilateralism? Not necessarily, as there is every likelihood of a transparent, non-discriminatory framework for international trade emerging. In this system, nation states are likely to play a subordinate role. More

POLITICS
The right to recall MPs
A nation makes a Constitution, but a Constitution cannot make a nation.The Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr Somnath Chatterjee, has repeatedly called for the introduction in India of a constitutional device that would provide the ... More

Temporary shunting is no cure
As a former Chief Electoral Officer myself, I received with mixed feelings the news that India’s Election Commission (EC) has ordered the shifting of the Director-General of Police, and six other police officials, and two Collectors, of ... More

MINING & QUARRYING
Extracting gains from mining
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STOCK MARKETS
Can Mt Everest get taller?
It cannot, and yet looking at the Indian stock market’s recent climb, one feels that such a development is, after all, not impossible. Some weeks ago, people were exulting over the fact that the market had hit the 15,000-mark and that a ... More

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