Bridging the gaps in R & D policy

Chatty car

For more skin in the game

With RBI and the Supreme Court calling for action against powerful debtors, state-owned banks have been put on notice

Too many graduates

Unfair assessment

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

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Tatas canvass public support for prawn project

As the Tatas try to counter public opposition to their prawn farm, the environment ministry looks on passively.

Technology and the public sector

FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISES Sunil Mani Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd, Delhi Price : Rs 250

The right alliance

Insurance default

Closure ordered

SC clamps down on mining in Kudremukh National Park

Sell-off norms

Rules being framed for disinvestment of natural resource-based PSUs

The facade of sharing

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private

Banks at a loss

Piling up non-performing assets serve as a lesson for banks to do social and environmental impact assessments of projects more rigorously

War over alliance

A clean disinvestment

Now disinvestment must also go green!

State turns its back on health sector

With state-run health care facilities proving ill-equipped to tackle the surge in dengue and chinkungunya patients, private medicos are …

Cough resistance

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in India is plagued by delayed diagnostics and inaccurate treatment procedures. An initiative in …

Power problems

R&D expenditure: A disturbing trend

Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy

Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals

49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …

Use public sector lands for Make in India-like businesses, suggests Economic Survey

It also recommends the use of public lands for start-ups and industrial clusters

Digging the earth

Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction