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Decision time at Cancun
THE FIFTH MINISTERIAL meeting of the World Trade Organisation, which will be held in Cancun, Mexico, next week, is the last chance for the 146 member-countries to impart a true development dimension to the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), the ...
Developing India's ports
AFTER THE GRANDIOSE National Highways development plan, the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, has come up with an equally massive `Sagar Mala' programme to develop and modernise the ports. His announcement may have enhanced the feel-good factor in ...


Leader Page Articles
Unifying personal laws
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

Personal laws may be reformed from within, without a quantum leap into a common code.
Towards rail safety
By V. Jayanth

The Comprehensive Safety Plan for the Railways envisages the creation of a `safety culture' that will cover changes in policies pertaining to recruitment, training and redeployment.


News Analysis
WTO: sidelining of implementation issues
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

One set of issues of concern to the developing countries that held centre-stage in three previous ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organisation may well occupy only the sidelines at next week's conference in Cancun, Mexico. These are ...


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  • The breakthrough
  • Accountability
  • Democracy defaced
  • Welcome move
  • Quit Iraq
  • This is no way
  • Wrong priorities
  • Selective sympathy?
  • English's woes
  • Slow & steady?



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