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A Biju Janata Dal demonstration outside Nalco's corporate office in Bhubaneswar on June 26.-

A step towards privatisation

The government's decision to sell 10 per cent of its stake in Nalco meets with stiff resistance in Orissa.

DELHI: BJP protest-

Setting prices alight

The sharp increase in petroleum product prices is unnecessary and threatens to stoke inflation.

More wheat in private hands

The decision to import wheat reflects the government's failure to procure enough wheat after the last harvest.

Market mayhem

Foreign institutional investors, who have a stranglehold on the stock markets, trigger the utter volatility of May

Child of all nations

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the great Indonesian writer, leaves a rich legacy that transcends the barriers of language.

At the SEBI office in Mumbai-PAUL NORONHA

A fraud exposed

The Securities and Exchange Board of India cracks the whip at the perpetrators of the Initial Public Offer scam.

To protect a benefit

Over two lakh employees of the State Bank of India go on strike over the issue of pensions.

FINANCE MINISTER P. CHIDAMBARAM with the Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, William B. Harrison Jr., at the conference on Indo-U.S. Economic Cooperation in New Delhi on March 3.-R.V.MOORTHY

Big business at work

While all eyes were on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, businessmen from both countries presented a wish list of reforms to the two governments.

Duties and levies of the governments account for over half of the retail selling price of petrol.-SONDEEP SHANKAR/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Price hike in the pipeline

The Central government is clearly waiting for the Assembly elections to be over to increase the prices of petroleum products.

'You can compare young and old persons doing a similar task and draw conclusions using scanning.... Researchers are scanning patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's while comparing the results with normal subjects.'-PHOTOGRAPH: R.RAGU

Of memories lost and found

Interview with Prof. John Hodges, behavioural neurologist.

State and the economy

State-directed Development: Political Power and Industrialisation in the Global Periphery by Atul Kohli, Cambridge University Press (first South Asian

Standing by Cuba

The Asia-Pacific Regional Cuba Solidarity Conference in Chennai concludes with a call to promote "multifaceted solidarity activities" with the sociali

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