bill, limiting it to large-scale transfers or, in KarunanidhiY metaphor, the 'bandicoots'. However, the 'bandicoots', especially the political ones, are a wily lot. Besides, the transfers effected...
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system to make a proper assessment of the supply-demand position can scarcely be over-emphasised. This is an essential prerequisite for evolving a strategy for efficient supply management.
COTTON Easy Option IT is natural enough for the farming community to welcome the further hefty hike of Rs 50/Rs 60 per quintal in the minimum support prices for kapas for the 1990-91 season. That...
for itself in the running of affairs among the various refugee militant outfits in Tamil Nadu. In a bid to settle scores with the LTTE (which was once trained by RAW but which later showed it the...
world's importance in superpower eyes sharply contrasts with the growth of Europe's importance. To that extent, the summit became merely a venue for the continuing dialogue on German reunification...
the government has decided to liberalise the licensing policy and allow the private sector to set up steel plants using the blast furnace route, subject to a capacity ceiling of 2,5 lakh tonnes...
THE 1989-90 cotton season has less than three months more to go. But the market's overall behaviour provides little indication of the proximity of the lean period ahead. Cotton prices have no doubt...
the police beat up only the workers and did not take any action against the pro- demolition group. It was only at a later stage, most probably on the intervention of some senior leaders who were...
Lithuania's borders, and cutting off energy supplies (which has put a severe strain on the republic's economy and led to cuts in workforces totalling 30,000 and other hardships)
on Lenin's formulation of inter-imperialist contradictions as the main axis of capitalist world evolution. Becaue of this, they very much fail to notice the new, and opposite, direction that the...
glossed over. Under Russian control since 1795, Lithuania enjoyed a brief period of independence between the world wars, until it was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Dissent against what...
Colonial Outposts? A Correspondent writes: LEAVING aside the first causes that appear to have been completely sidetracked in the Kiran Bedi-Delhi lawyers controversy, the apparently 'punitive'...
Only a Beginning THE dissolution of the Rashtriya Panchayat in Nepal and the reintroducuon, after thirty years, of a multi-party system, tackles only a part of the root cause of the popular uprising...
party of government in these states. As for ensuring the protection of the 'innocent tribal people' from exploitation by outsiders, the less said the better. Business and trading licences for the...
in an idle nursery rhyme. Over most of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union not excluding, the socialistic edifice was falling down, falling down. The old coordinates started to crumble with an...
