While there is sufficient evidence of potential damage due to two related climatic phenomena, ozone depletion and greenhouse effect, tackling the problems they create involves a fundamental change...
Reports
Surjeet Singh The rural credit institutions in the nineties are likely to be functioning in an ambience characterised by a pre-eminence of non-farm activities, a trend towards fragmentation within...
Role of the Left A Correspondent Public opinion in the country is weighed down with a sense of frustration over the failure of the second non-Congress coalition experiment in New Delhi. This,...
Conversion Soviet Style R G Gidadhubli AN important component of Gorbachev's policy of perestroika and glasnost has been the conversion of defence establishments for civilian needs. Gorbachev's...
Neglected Patients M Lakshmanan The 26-day employees strike has ended with little gains for anyone and untold suffering for the poor patients who were thrown out of the hospital when the government...
C B OPEC member states play a crucial role as major exporters of crude oil, the largest single internationally traded commodity. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Vienna-based organisation...
Dominant Castes, Ruling Classes and the State D N THE V P Singh government's decision to institute some reservation for backward castes (BCs) has brought about a sharp turn in Indian politics...
The challenge before the railway planners is a unique one of how to design a productive organisation which would motivate large numbers of active workers to make optimum use of scarce resources. The...
Controller of Capital issues, an organ of the department of economic affairs, did not think it incongruous that in just six months after its last application was approved L&T was metamorphising...
Indu Bharti The currently much-cited reservation policy of Bihar with its added economic criteria and its built-in mechanism for progressively excluding those who move up is a possible answer to the...
in broad terms. The prescribed form of application requires details regarding (I) the object of the issue; (2) whether industrial licence is required and obtained; (3) (a) Total cost of each project...
Lurid Light on Export Policy Even while bemoaning financial resource constraints in the way of generating employment, the government is unable or unwilling to use teal resources in the form of...
Last month US president Bush, supposedly unable to certify that Pakistan did not possess a nuclear explosive device suspended aid to that country Just how significant was this decision? Does this...
allegiance to his party back to the Janata. The non-Lingayats are disorganised and demoralised. Their tragedy is that they must unite or forever play second fiddle to the Lingayats. This means the...
assumptions about the impact of the Gulf crisis, an estimate for 1990-91 is given in the Table. Two scenarios have been presented, the one assumes an oil import of 26.6 million tonnes (19.5 million...
