-The Times of India The US on Thursday dragged India and China to the World Trade Organization over subsidy programmes implemented by the world's two fastest growing economies, with a top Obama Administration official terming the situation as intolerable. "The situation was intolerable," US trade representative Ron Kirk said. Noting that every member of the WTO is required to come clean on their subsidy programmes on a regular basis, Kirk said China...
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Two attempts to incite riots, the first one failed but the second did not by Deepu Sebastian Edmond
Four days after the riots that killed four in Rudrapur, the exodus hasn’t stopped. Over the six hours during which curfew was relaxed on Wednesday and Thursday, hundreds left the town. Just before the curfew was lifted on Thursday evening, the town celebrated Dussehra. The event was more ritualistic than celebratory. The three effigies were burnt down, and the Mahatma Gandhi ground emptied in a matter of minutes. There is no history...
More »Reversing reforms? by Malini Bhattacharya
The beneficiaries of the land reforms in West Bengal get pushed out of their land under the new regime. MOGHAI MUNDA is dead. No one is there to mourn him but his distraught parents and his young wife who seems to have lost her power of speech. But it is a significant death, even if it is ignored by the ubiquitous media and, therefore, by the world at large. Like the...
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-The Indian Express The Comptroller and Auditor General’s hubris will not tolerate any no-go areas. This august office sees itself as capable of running a shadow Administration and it may just be a matter of time before the CAG demands that it be allowed to audit the selection of the Indian cricket team. As reported in this newspaper on Tuesday, the CAG asked the home ministry to submit agenda notes and...
More »Land for landed by NC Saxena
The 12th Plan Approach Paper looks upon land more as raw material for mining and industrialisation than as a source of livelihood for the poor. DESPITE a fast economic growth, more than 60 per cent of the population of India is still dependent on land. The 12th Plan Approach Paper, however, looks upon land not as a source of livelihood for the poor but as raw material for mining and industrialisation....
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