Ominous portents The budgetary arithmetic seems to have gone awry, judging by the desperate loud thinking in the North Block. Privatise or perish The RBI's "Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 1998-99" reiterates the need for tightening the NPA norms. Millennium Round-- Time to make a case for fair trade One of the major achievements of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was that it defined a subsidy for the first time in any multilateral trade agreement. A clear policy against Indo-Pak proxy war is must It is the melancholy duty of strategic analysis to alert citizens to the possibility of conflict, often mistaken as warmongering. Towards an integrated performance management framework The budgetary arithmetic seems to have gone awry, judging by the desperate loud thinking in the North Block.