| Bharti gets international phone service licence
Bharti Telesonic, a subsidiary of telecoms company Bharti Tele-Ventures has signed a licence agreement with the government to start international long distance phone services, a company statement said. |
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Columns
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| State budgets need equal
focus 'While the state government budgets of 2001-02 have generally
proposed a number of measures reflecting the urgency to expedite the
fiscal consolidation process, the success of these measures will depend
almost entirely upon the political will of the government concerned,'
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| Political arithmetic more important than the Budget With its numbers in Parliament none too comforting, the BJP-led government may find it difficult to push through a reform-oriented Budget, says Sucheta Dalal.
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| Portrait of a defeated government Banks have been discriminating against producers, who pay high rates, and in favour of the Centre, which blows up borrowings on interest, says Ashok V Desai.
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Specials
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| Why some states have grown faster than the others? Jeffrey D Sachs, Nirupam Bajpaiand Ananthi Ramiahexamine whether market reforms tend to make the rich states richer… |
| Budget Basics: Balancing the books How does the government balances its books? How are fiscal and budgetary deficits calculated? How are these deficits made good...? Check out! |
| 'Nehruvian economics hit India's growth' 'What we are doing is reversing what Indira Gandhi did in the 70s. Her sycophants regarded her 20-point programme as the 19th chapter of the Bhagvad Gita. We now know how all those steps kept India backward and inhibited growth,' writes Union Law Minister Arun Jaitely. |
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Interviews
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| 'It's a Budget of missed opportunity'
While Sinha did pay some attention to agriculture and the reforms process, more radical measures were necessary, says Dr M S Swaminathan an eminent agriculture scientist.
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Budget Tutorial
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| Budget basics: Balancing the books How does the government balance its books? How are fiscal and budgetary deficits calculated? How are these deficits made good...? Check out!
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