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   EDITORIALS
Saturday, August 11, 2001 
Mr Zoellick’s invitation
  There is no doubt that the current United States government has put its best foot forward in reaching out to India by choosing US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick as the first cabinet level official of the Bush Administration to visit India.
Export-led bailout
  Whatever has happened to the much-awaited steel policy? After circulating a draft policy more than six months ago, nothing much is heard on that front. Producers also do not seem to be overawed by it as the main problem is not being addressed.
POLITICAL ECONOMY: C P Bhambhri
Socialism has met with an inglorious end
  The collapse of the erstwhile systems of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s has had a devastating impact upon traditional socialist parties in India and Europe.
CAPITAL DIARY: Malvika Singh
When there is anarchy
  He is absolutely bang on. When Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee says he is old, unwell and unable to control the government and his allies, he is truthfully admitting that he is willing to accept a younger and more agile alternative who will be able to deal with the overwhelming horrors that have overtaken this country.
  EAVESDROPPER: Sinha, the Sphinx
  At the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations the hot topic of discussion was the silence of Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha.

   ANALYSIS
FIRST PERSON: S Narendra
The show goes on, even after 10 years of reform
  The headlines in the economic and business dailies in July seemed to be competing with each other to spread depressing news. If one headline announced CBI probe into some government financial institutions, another told us about the rot in a financial firm.
DOCUMENT: White House fact sheet on Bush stem cell decision
  Following are excerpts from a White House fact sheet released on Thursday detailing President George W Bush’s decision to permit federally funded research on embryonic stem cells on a limited basis.
TAKING STOCK: Sanjay Sardana
Adequate policy framework required to boost biotech industry
  The Indian biotechnology industry, still in a nascent stage, has yet to deliver any path-breaking products. In fact, in the last four years, only three recombinant proteins have hit the market.
STATES: C R Rathee
Battle for Jat leadership intensifies in western UP
  With three veteran Rashtriya Lok Dal MPs of western Uttar Pradesh having left the party, Ajit Singh remains the sole RLD MP in the National Democratic Alliance.
 
   
 
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