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Tex
trauma |
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Clearly, there is a problem
when the exports of India’s prime foreign exchange earner, the
textiles and clothing industry, decline by 22 per cent during
April-June 2001. |
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Fortress
America |
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India has now become the second
largest source of students in the US, overtaking Japan and just
behind China. In 2001, the number of Indian students headed
to the US was 54,664, against China’s 59,939. |
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BONO PUBLICO: S S Tarapore
The great Indian Ponzi scheme |
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Increasingly, in recent years,
advocates of fiscal prudence have been ridiculed. Even advocates
within the government of a sane fiscal policy have been subject
to stultification by legislators. It is becoming fashionable
to argue that the attempts to bring about fiscal correction
in the nineties were a mistake. |
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EXPRESSO:
Sourav Majumdar
Warning signals from RBI |
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Walk into the cavernous interiors
of a state-run bank. What are you most likely to see? Peeling
paint, yellowed ledgers piling up from the floor to the ceiling,
and dreary-looking employees gossiping among themselves as resigned
customers wait to access their own hard-earned money. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Et tu Chomsky! |
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The Marxists have
traditionally played host to Professor Noam Chomsky on his visits
to Kerala. His recent trip was no exception. And since CPI(M)
has conventionally believed in the ‘revolution is not a tea
party’ maxim, they gave receptions a go-by and stuck to organising
theoretical sessions. |
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EU-India
initiative for corporate social responsibility |
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Indian and European business
representatives are meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday to see
how best to meet their responsibilities to society at large.
Gone, in other words, are the days when business had only one
goal: to make money for its owners. |
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Mr
Lamy, 40 Indian Parliamentarians, and the New Round |
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On Thursday, just a day after
commerce minister Murasoli Maran has finished flaunting in Parliament
the trophies he got back from Doha, European Union trade commissioner
Pascal Lamy will perform a delicate diplomatic task. |
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EU
court ruling on Levis jeans a setback for consumers |
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Europe’s highest court punctured
consumers’ hopes of buying cheap designer goods imported from
outside the European Union on Tuesday, handing Levi Strauss
the right to lock out imports of cut-price jeans. |
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STATES:
C R Rathee
Haryana action plan to check fast-depleting water table
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Alarmed by reports of continued
and steep decline in the reservoir-level of underground water
in Haryana, particularly in the southern part of the state which
includes Gurgaon, the state government has constituted a Water
Conservation Mission. |
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BETWEEN
THE LINES: Kuldip
Nayar
The fight for human rights has to include the excluded
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Kabul fell one day
after some 500 men and women from South Asia, at a meeting in
New Delhi, adopted a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan.
It was a premonition or wishful thinking on their part. |
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