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Thursday, March 13, 2003
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Regretful rollback
MR JASWANT SINGH would surely hate to be called "rollback minister" — a description his predecessor had attracted. With the forced rollback of fertiliser prices, the appellation has a reason to stick yet again. The Government could not ... More

BUDGET


Rediscovering the priorities
With a plentiful supply of wage goods and a more than comfortable level of forex reserves, it should be possible to contain inflation. Hence, it is time the country outgrew the Budget deficit obsession and got on with development, says N. A. Mujum dar More

Is middle-class smiling too soon?
For the middle-class, would acceptance of the Kelkar recommendations been a better bargain? To many, the Budget is but a sugar-coated bitter pill and with no real reduction in income tax rates or hike in the income slab for IT purposes. More

HEALTH


Drug abuse — On a high in India
EVEN as drug abuse and drug trafficking have drawn worldwide attention as having deleterious effect on the health of the populace and society's development, estimates of the income generated by illicit drug production and trafficking and the ... More

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