The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, August 23, 2006

AGRICULTURE
A `lip-package' for farmers?
Farmers all over the country, particularly those from Vidarbha and other regions with high incidence of suicides, were hoping that the Prime Minister, in his Independence Day speech, would try and explain what had gone wrong with his package and anno unce a prescription. But they were left disappointed. More

HEALTH
Battling the HIV scourge
A recent World Bank study estimates that about 60 per cent of the 5.5-6 million people in South Asia infected with HIV/AIDS live in India. With its concerns on the potential huge economic cost in terms of economic growth, the review provides a basis for rigorous, evidence-based HIV policy and programming in South Asia. RASHEEDA BHAGAT on the report. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
It doesn't pay to keep financial closures indefinitely open-ended
Financial closure may not show dramatically, the way locked vaults or barred gates do. So much so, you may be pardoned for not knowing that financial closures have been happening too closely around us. For instance, the Jadcharla-Farukhnagar road ... More

POLICY
Code of responsibility in governance
Report rightly seeks to fix responsibility on both. More

Wise use of RTI
The Right to Information Act is certainly historic in that it places in people's hands for the first time a powerful instrument to extract information out of the governing class and expose to the glare of the ... More

PEOPLE
When Shehnai silenced the Sitar
It was a friendly battle between shehnai and sitar. And the pipe prevailed over the string. The instruments were handled by two geniuses — Ustad Bismillah Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. The occasion was the inauguration of the Pravasi ... More

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