NATION & STATES Stop
terrorists, then talk Kashmir,
Natwar Singh tells Pakistan India's foreign minister
said talks were moving forward, but real progress would come about only if
Pakistan made sure terror agents were stopped from crossing the border...
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Outlook Firm,
assertive, confident
He doesn't take things lying down anymore. Both the Opposition, and his partymen, better
beware, says SHEELA REDDY of the new Manmohan Singh
Times of India What
is Azim Premji's message?
'I would tell a Muslim kid, if you want to be Premji, you’ve every chance to do that, being in our country’.
The captain of Wipro explains his reasons for going to West Bengal, where no one thought anyone from
the new economy would go, and why he is not worried. He tells SHEKHAR GUPTA
about his company’s focus on education
Asia Times Pakistan's military minds its
business
Apart from its stranglehold on the nation's politics and administration, the Pakistani military is the single largest player in the country's economy, dealing in breakfast cereal to fertilizers, real estate to power
plants, writes SUDHA RAMACHANDRAN
Indian Express There’s a lot in the pipeline
With so many distractions, it would be unrealistic to expect the Kasuri visit to make history. And yet a series of decisions were taken which will help “sustain” the Indo-Pak dialogue and keep it on positive
lines, says SAEED NAQVI
Tribune Small units deserve care
It is now more than three decades since Germany-born economist and philosopher E. Fritz Schumacher wrote his seminal book,
'Small is Beautiful'. A sharp critique of Western economic thinking, the works of Schumacher
(1911-77) championed the cause of appropriate technology. Small units are the
biggest employers, says PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
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