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EDITORIAL: More pain than gain
After six long years India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) finally managed to get their acts together and sign an FTA as part of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement. This is no doubt an important landmark ...

RURAL DEVELOPMENT: Dilemma of rural development
The Centre has promised “100-day plans” for each ministry. Apart from the HRD Ministry which had the benefit of the Yash Pal Report and the Knowledge Commission recommendations, the other ministries seem to be content with expansion ...

POLITICS: Assertive address
I am sure the same thought would have crossed the minds of those listening to the Independence Day (I-Day) address to the nation by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, from the ramparts of the Red Fort: Everything about the delivery ...

EVENTS: A day of remembrance
One remembers a time when Independence Day was taken as a day to make resolutions for the future, which reflected the fact that the citizens of the Republic were bent on pursuing the path of progress and development. They still are because ...

LETTERS: Farm policy
The article “Foodgrains: Can Dr Singh do a Robert Peel?” (Business Line, August 13) does disservice by being non-dimensional in itself (a charge it rightly levels against the ...

POLITICS: Minorities seek distinctiveness
The confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the US Supreme Court caps a creditable life of hard-won progress. She is from Puerto Rico (a US territory in the Caribbean), Spanish-speaking, and from very humble circumstances. ...

EVENTS: Bored, Sir?
There has been a growing sense now in the Capital that the Finance Minister is not really fully mentally engaged in his job, perhaps because he is bored and can’t be bothered with the tedious details anymore. Fresh grist to the mill was ...

Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrashekhar S Murlidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranabir Ray Choudhury Rasheeda Bhagat P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh S Venkitaramanan




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