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Wednesday, September 18, 2002
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Calling to account, unnecessarily
FROM A PURELY legal stand point, the Government does not appear to have a strong case for requiring the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority to route all its surpluses into the `public account'. The IRDA Act merely says that that a ... More

ECONOMY


Unctad Investment Report — FDI: Predicated on domestic capabilities
THE deflation of expectations following the postponement of the disinvestment of the public sector oil companies in the first week of September was partly made good by the release of the Steering Committee report on Foreign Direct Investment ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


New avatars of old packponies
HITHERTO, computer users have been regarding e-mail and instant messaging (IM) as nothing more than ancillary services of peripheral importance. Most of the time, at the hands of youngsters, in particular, they have been serving as channels of ... More

MUTUAL FUNDS


UTI split: The untold story
Shaji Vikraman narrates the drama of the backroom calculations before the announcement that the Unit Trust of India would be split into two. More

POLITICS


J&K: Good assembly in first session
The first surprise thrown up by the elections in Jammu and Kashmir is the good voter turnout, at 44 per cent. It is indicative that the people of J&K have decided to take a new, proactive approach to solving their problems, and is thus a positive dev elopment, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

IPR


Litigation in large doses
With surprising derring-do, Indian generic drug companies are storming the US market, the largest for their products, unfazed by legal cases slapped against them by drug patent holders, says P. T. Jyothi Datta More

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