OPINION
NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
Europe shows the way in embracing bio-fuels
The European Commission is apparently quite serious about achieving its voluntarily set target of having biofuels make up a 5.75 per cent share of transport fuels by 2010. It has hiked subsidies for bio-fuel crops, increased the farmland set aside fo r growing them and has integrated all 25 member-nations in the scheme.
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EDITORIAL
Rising opportunities
The India-Japan economic exchange is much below its potential and needs to be jacked up.
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FOREX
Why the falling dollar is `our problem'
Apart from causing a huge dent in the value of India's foreign currency reserves, the falling dollar also has implications for competitiveness. Moving reserves to other currencies, however, could end up depreciating the dollar further, as demand for it falls even more. The RBI should come out with a plan of what it will do to protect industry against the sliding greenback, says S. VENKITARAMANAN.
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EDUCATION
The campaign for clarity
Most of us know well the peculiarly stilted and lifeless language used in our daily newspapers, which is the combined result of a Victorian educational curriculum and an East India company clerk's vocabulary, teeming with ancient idioms, ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
We love to hate our young employees
There is a growing divide between the values, needs and expectations of the young and old employees; the former are thought to have no values, reckless and greedy. The blame is, however, unjustified.
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TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
Time to strike a new note
As Kerala seeks to get past its sticky reputation of resting on the laurels of its development history, it's time to search for new paradigms that go beyond the fist-clenching, slogan-belching, placard-waving immobilisation of the State's economic ar teries, as exemplified by last week's general strike.
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INTERVIEW
`Development cannot be pulled out of thin air'
The broader issue is one of development versus displacement of which Singur is a representative example. For the development process to take off, land is needed. This means displacing people. So the success of a development strategy would depend on h ow the displaced people are rehabilitated. — DR ABHIRUP SARKAR, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, KOLKATA
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PEOPLE
Recalling a historic legislative battle
Subrahmanya Bharathi's birthday (December 11) has been going unnoticed year after year, but for some odd meetings here and there. Hardly is there an instance of political parties, cultural associations, ...
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LETTERS
Stock lending mechanism
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