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Special Issue on the divestment of PSE shares

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05-02-201639 STORIES

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A programme in peril

Letters to the Editor

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Interview: Thomas Franco, AIBOC

‘Privatisation not the solution for banks’ problems’

Interview with Thomas Franco, senior vice-president of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation.

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Energy/ Power Sector

Punished for performance

PSEs such as NTPC have turned in a stupendous performance despite handicaps imposed by a government favouring non-performing private players. Divesti

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The Trojan horse

The promotion of public-private partnerships, which goes hand in hand with the state withdrawing from its responsibility of discharging its basic duti

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Lessons not learnt

The Narendra Modi government’s economic policy direction remains unchanged in spite of the BJP’s terrible defeat in the Bihar and Delhi Assembly elect

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Financial Institutions/ Insurance

Opening the FDI floodgates

The lifting of the FDI cap in the sector has not increased insurance penetration and has only undermined the unique contributions made by public secto

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Energy/ Coal Sector

Coal matters

Coal India plays a key role in securing the country’s energy needs, but the government is neither taking any step to support it nor addressing the iss

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At receiving end

BSNL has suffered from government decisions that prevented it from buying crucial equipment, which in turn affected its quality of service and caused

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Financial Institutions/ Banking

On the private route

The Modi regime is trying every trick in the book to weaken banks and pave the way for their privatisation, but the unions are putting up a determined

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Desperate act

The terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base fails to deter India and Pakistan from continuing the dialogue process in right earnest.

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Interview: G. Sanjeeva Reddy, INTUC

‘Condition of labour is deteriorating’

Interview with G. Sanjeeva Reddy, president, Indian National Trade Union Congress.

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Interview: Tapan Sen, CITU

‘Disinvestment is a corrupt process’

Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.

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Undermining public sector

Economic liberalisation has steadily corroded the public sector, allowing private players to acquire valuable assets at low prices and demand extraord

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Energy/ Oil Sector

Crude treatment

Liberalisation of the oil sector has enabled private interests to reap huge profits from India’s reserves while top upstream companies like ONGC have

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The dam debate

The anti-Tehri dam movement and other voices from the Himalaya.

From pastoral to commercial

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Of a dwindling breed

Veteran CPI leader and trade union icon A.B. Bardhan’s (1925-2016) life and career were marked by an intense commitment to the poor and the marginalis

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Jammu & Kashmir

Relevance of U.N. resolutions

Though most of the U.N. resolutions on Kashmir have been overtaken by recent events, two that define the contours of the conflict are still relevant:

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Interview: Virjesh Upadhyaya, BMS

BMS wants directional change

Interview with Virjesh Upadhyaya, general secretary, BMS.

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Notes from the street

Balaknama, a tabloid run by street children in New Delhi, tells stories of their world in their words, empowering and transforming the lives of thousa

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Models of field studies

The volume deals with a relatively neglected aspect of the implementation of social legislation enacted by the Centre but turned to political advantag

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Secularism and the state

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Drug resistance of malarial parasite

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Neither free nor basic

Facebook’s latest offering flies in the face of Net neutrality and is merely another ploy to control information access to millions of Indians.

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For safer vaccines in polio-free world

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Acts of aggression

Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric causes serious tensions in its relations with Iran and accentuates the sectarian divide in West A

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So far, so good

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Bull and politics

The Supreme Court stay on the Central government’s hasty notification allowing jallikattu, the bull-taming sport in Tamil Nadu, evokes emotional respo

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Cautiously forward

The CPI(M) and the Congress in West Bengal are keen on an electoral understanding to defeat the Trinamool Congress in the Assembly elections, but not

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Facts of a carnage

An important addition to the documentation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, the book deserves a wide readership.

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Bombs as answer

North Korea’s latest claim of having tested a hydrogen bomb is partly a result of the politics of intimidation practised by the U.S. and South Korea.

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War on critical thinking

A compelling book on the crisis of modern American life in the context of normalisation of mass surveillance and remaining in a state of relentless wa

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Descent into chaos

Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the

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Medical research

Yoga and risk of glaucoma

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Mufti Mohammed Sayeed: A bridge to the Valley

Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (1936-2016) played a big role in changing the political destiny of Jammu and Kashmir at several stages in his life and weathered

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The importance of protected areas

In the whole debate in India on climate change, the role of protected areas, the only natural tool to mitigate its effects and help us adapt to it, ha

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Endangered sector

Public sector undertakings play a significant financial and social role in the country's economy and the government has a duty to protect them instead

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Firmly in charge

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