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Mr
Maran’s message |
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Once bitten, twice shy. Union
commerce minister Murasoli Maran has a point when he says that
India made a “down payment” in the Uruguay Round; that it will
not do so the next time round unless there is something in it
for the country. |
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Incoherent
outbursts |
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Mr Kanwal Rekhi, the angel
investor from the US, has stirred a hornet’s nest by accusing
the government of incoherence. Protection of any kind is anathema
to him and he finds a correlation between the government’s incoherence
and protectionism. |
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PRO
BONO PUBLICO: S S Tarapore
Reading
the tea leaves of ratings |
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The
inevitable has happened. International credit rating agencies
have downed the hammer on India’s rating. We all knew that there
was nothing new in the rationale behind the downgrade. Then
why the official outrage and the almost subservient support
of the official position by industry associations? |
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SIXTH
SENSE: Murali Gopalan
ONGC
gets its act together |
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There
is a new sense of purpose at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
with radical changes being implemented to enhance efficiency.
The new corporate rejuvenation campaign will strive to recharge
the organisation to meet the challenges and opportunities in
an era of market-determined pricing, which will be effective
from April next year. |
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OFF
THE CUFF: The
secret of Mother Dairy’s success |
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If
there is a co-operative organisation alive to both business
opportunities and social responsibility, it is the Mother Dairy
establishment, a subsidiary of the better-known National Dairy
Development Board. Ours is the age of the showman and not of
quiet competency. Therefore, Mother Dairy has hardly ever been
in the news. |
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ON
THE OTHER HAND: A
Very Sick idea |
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Trust
the government to get healthy firms to foot part of the bill
to help sick firms get back on the rails. It is so characteristic
of the way it has chosen to govern the country -- pass the buck
on to someone else whenever you can, appears to be the NDA’s
underlying credo. |
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BETWEEN
THE LINES: Kuldip Nayar
Musharraf’s
government and the great divide |
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I have vainly looked through
the Pakistan press and the writings of its columnists for a
word of condemnation against these killings of Hindus in Doda
or Jammu and earlier at the Amarnath pilgrimage. I can understand,
if not appreciate, their attitude to the movement in the valley
which is afire, unfortunately, more with fundamentalism than
the Kashmiriyat. |
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HOME
TRUTHS: Friends
in deed |
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The husband ventured into married
life with an unshakable set of tenets that he’d expound to me
on a regular basis: Wives take over a man’s life, wives distance
a man from his family, wives keep a man away from his friends.
I was 15 years younger then and much less experienced in the
ways of men and matters—I can think of no other reason why I
did not retort, “So why didn’t you stick with the family and
friends? You shouldn’t have ticked the box that said Marriage.”
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VIEWPOINT:
Prabhat Kumar
Chinese
dragon hits Japanese shore with a vengeance
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China has created a powerhouse
of world-class manufacturing. Growing on the strength of domestic
demand, it is consistently clocking 8-10 per cent growth rate.
Annual exports have touched $259 billion. It is also moving
from low end products to higher value added goods. |
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INDIA
ON IMF ON INDIA—III: ‘Second
generation reforms will be more challenging’ |
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Responding
to the Article IV review of the Indian economy by the International
Monetary Fund, India’s Executive Director on the IMF Board,
Vijay Kelkar, defends India’s record and addresses the Fund’s
“impatience and frustration” with the pace of change in India.
Extracts from Dr Kelkar’s speech at the meeting of the IMF Executive
Board (June 20, 2001). |
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