ECONOMY & BUSINESS Centre
working out FDI modalities for telecom The communications minister says the sector badly needs foreign direct
investment, and the government is thinking of ways of getting it
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Indian Express Seize the dynamics of demography
From 2005 to 2035 is a historic opportunity for India to harness the demographic situation. It must get up to 8-10 per cent growth in this period, and decisively get away from mass
poverty, say VIJAY KELKAR AND SUJATA KELKAR
India Together A road through the laws
A coastal tourism development project in Andhra Pradesh threatens the natural environment, puts livelihoods at risk, and quite possibly flouts the laws on several counts. And yet none of this seems to hold this kind of 'development' in check. KANCHI KOHLI reports on the Swarnaandhra Theeram project near Vishakapatnam
Tribune A spark that has become a movement
The focus of the Saarc literary meet was on that irregular triangle that forms the central peninsula of Southern Asia. Here nestle the seven sibling countries in close togetherness yet with a distinct cultural identity, writes NIRUPAMA DUTT
Deccan Herald Where is the road?
But for some confidence-building talk, there is little in the new foreign trade policy to give exports an impetus, writes S N CHARY
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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