Lessons of Assam Sanjib Baruah THE Assam election where a spectacular 85 per cent of the electorate participated and the coming to power of the Asom Gana Parishad have important implications for the...
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February 8, 1986 However, even in these functions the standards have fallen There are very few detections and the police depend mostly on confessions for sending cases to the courts. Records are not...
builders' representatives, had highlighted the conditions prevailing in the industry in its (1968) report. It had emphasised the casual and seasonal nature of work here and suggested concrete...
various investigations. The Morcha members produced the various charters of demands which they had submitted to the representatives of the government, including both the former and the present chief...
February 8, 1986 Police and Society THE police in India has been under considerable criticism from various sections of Society, Reports in newspapers and journals add up to indicate that there is...
NEW DELHI Nemesis of Economic Liberalisation BM THE spate of pre-Budget increases in administered prices announced by the government in New Delhi in quick succession appears to be of more than...
February 8, 1986 CALCUTTA Metro Project: Violating Labour Laws THE Association for Protection of Democratic Rights, Calcutta has recently published a report on "Calcutta's Metro Workers". This study...
Telugu poet Varavara Rao is back to jail, for the eighth time in the last twelve years. But this time he voluntarily opted to cancel his bail in the Secunderabad Conspiracy Case and choose...
SMALL INDUSTRY Employment Growth in Seventh Plan J C Sandesara WE examine here the statistics of employment coverage in the small industry sector in the Sixth and the Seventh Plans, and also the...
Status of Drug Industry in India Report on a Seminar Haseeb A Drabu THIS report tries to put together the basic themes that emerged, the issues that were raised and the discussions that took place...
doctors become retailers to prescribe a particular proprietary brand. As was acknow- leded by these professionals themselves in the seminar, most of the medical students are inadequately trained in...
February 1, 1986 bail. The prosecution opposed the petition. But the court upheld the arguments of his lawyer K C Kannabiran and remanded him back to judicial custody in the Secunderabad prison from...
January 25, 1986 industrialised world have used to obfuscate the real issues of arms race and put forward diversionary proposals. In the post-NPT period, the NWFZ concept is a complementary measure...
really did was raise the height of the chimney, thereby extending the zone of pollution. At present, they are said to be working to give them a fibre-glass lining, but as the process has been "going...
SEVENTH PLAN Moonshine on Employment Satish Jha THINGS could have looked up for India's poor. A new political leadership promising to offer a 'government that works better' and the time to write a...
