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INTERVIEW-PRIME MINISTER MORARJI DESAI

‘Is Drinking A Ritual “? Then I Think ‘It Is Better to Close Our Diplomatic Missions!’ The appointment is at I pm at the Prime…

INTERVIEW-PROF. C.N. VAKIL

The Government Is Helping Create A Privileged Class!’ Professor C.N. Vakil, eminent economist, formerly Director, School of Economics and Sociology, University of Bombay, and Director,…

WILL THE EUPHORIA REMAIN ?

Gandhi must have been passing through an extremely clairvoyant phase when he came up with this statement in the Thirties. In the thirty years that…

Frozen in the Headlights

Poor Manmohan Singh is caught between the Pros and the Cons. The Pros in the Opposition are telling the prime minister, who has never seemed…

PRIVATISATION PROVES TO BE GORDIAN KNOT FOR MANILA TRUST

CHINA DISCUSSING SIX LOANS WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

AFGHANISTAN ASKS FOR AID TO REPAIR ECONOMY

PHILIPPINE AIR LOSS SAID TO THREATEN PRIVATISATION

Reuters journalist buried in Australia

FAITH, HOPE AND NO CHARITY

The International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) began with a bang: the National Federation of the Blind led its members in a vociferous agitation in…

HOLLOWING OUT

Privatisation will work only when the government sells more than 50 per cent of a state-owned company’s capital to the public and relinquishes management control.…

SELL SELL SELL

Two numbers speak eloquently about our schizophrenia over privatisation: the Rs 2.11trillion ($32.5 billion) package announced on October 24 to recapitalise public-sector banks (PSBs); and…