NEGOTIATIONS arc under way between some leading units in the soap industry, the Government of India and an American firm, Atlantic Richfield, for establishing a project for manufacture of alkylate,...
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fundamentalist party. In a political environment where parties keep splitting and politicians drift from one organisation to another, the Jamaat had remained a monolithic, tightly disciplined party...
several times in the past with generous support from the CPI(M). This time, of course, he will have not only to stand on his own, but also to fight against the concerted opposition of the entire...
climate convention. The New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has come out with an exhaustively analytical report entitled Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of...
tech cart. While no doubt we must endeavour to design more efficient carts, it is equally important to either drain the morass or persuade the horse to walk out of it.
faces charges in over 100 cases which are being investigated by a commission consisting of judges. The government has already instituted two cases against him on charges of possession of illegal...
defiance of a police ban as they have done in several other French cities. In Spain the demonstrators were students and workers. There have been anti-war rallies in Britain, in eight Italian cities...
children. He is unconcerned that withdrawal of efforts to minimise mortality would mean an increase in morbidity; a reduction in preventive immunisation programmes would mean that more children will...
particularly the formerly Moscow- oriented communist parties, to propose broad coalitions or wide fronts on every plausible occasion. They, it seems, have forgotten the basic Marxist dictum that...
points to this. For the outcome of the referendum may not have left either party with any manoeuvrability. The government was also perhaps seeking a consensus among political parties not only on the...
threat to that of a reasonable and responsible partner in the management of global crises
persecution. The Thai government has decided to deport some 10,000 illegal immigrants' to Burma. Some 700 had already been deported and are now held in detention by the Burmese army in the border...
lb circumvent this obstacle the Bush ad- ministration has conjured up the bogey of Iraq acquiring nuclear capability within six months. And even as justifications for an American war in the Gulf...
Bank's operations would be to relate the Bank's net disbursements to its new borrowings. During the five-year period ending 1990, the Bank's new borrowing added up to $51.8 billion. As against that...
of the villages were connected to the grid by 1988-89, diesel-operated irrigation sets continued to supplement the electric pump sets, The industry responded to this situation by installing captive...
