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Rhetoric
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There are no surprises in the
latest World Investment Report 2001 which points out that foreign
direct investment inflows to India marginally rose from $2.1
bn in 1999 to $2.3 bn in 2000. |
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Holy
cow! |
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People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals are at it again. At the World Shoe Association fair
in Las Vegas, Peta has argued for a boycott on imports of Indian
leather products, since animals (especially cows) are cruelly
killed by butchers, besides suffering inhuman treatment from
transporters. |
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Lay
off? Look who’s talking! |
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Faced with a barrage of criticism,
both from the opposition and his own party, Dr Manmohan Singh
once lamented to this writer, circa 1993 when he was still finance
minister, that the biggest problem our policymakers face does
not arise so much out of the so-called divide between the demands
of ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ but the intellectual divisions and the
disarray within the ‘elite’, writes Sanjaya Baru. |
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MICROVIEW:
R Jagannathan
Speaking too much, too soon |
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Barring a few, most commentators
appear to have got it wrong. Soon after the September 11 attacks,
Indians were jubilant. The Indian media went ga-ga speculating
on how the Pakistanis had managed to isolate themselves in this
new war. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Aids or Afghanistan? |
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It was an exclusive
gathering at 7 Race Course road, an occasion to savour the hospitality
of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his residence. |
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TRADE:
Pradeep S Mehta & Ujjwal Kumar
Co-operation is key to tackling cross-border competition
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The existence of an international
vitamin cartel and action against it by several rich countries
like the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan etc. might
not be news to many. But a developing country like Brazil initiating
a proceeding against the same cartel might be news to some. |
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Anti-terrorism:
The strategic challenges ahead |
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Just after Pakistan’s military
ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf agreed to the demands of the United
States to deal firmly with the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and
his family quietly went into hiding from his home in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, the spiritual capital of the Taliban. |
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BLACK
TUESDAY:Huma Siddiqui
Web site offers suggestions to India for building world opinion
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India’s reaction to the September
11 terrorist attacks in the US began with an outpouring of shock,
grief and sympathy, followed by the wry I-told-you-so look as
the US grappled with international terrorism. |
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COMMENT:
R K Roy
Oil pricing constraints presage growth stagnation |
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It is unlikely that America’s
mobilisation against terrorism will end in a quick, short operation
in Afghanistan. Besides, the threat of reprisals looms large
over West Asia. This means that oil prices will tend to be volatile. |
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Q&A:
G PALANITHURAI
Panchayati raj institutions need to be further empowered
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G Palanithurai, Professor
in the Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Panchayati Raj Studies in Gandhigram
Rural Institute-Deemed University, Dindugal, Tamil Nadu. In
an interview with Joseph Vackayil, Dr Palanithurai
speaks about the system in its socio-economic and global context. |
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