The Times of India

There\’s an old saying that the law is an ass, but I never grasped its full meaning till I read the Supreme Court\’s judgement on the right to education. The court was pronouncing on the validity of Karnataka\’s law on private medical colleges. This law abolished capitation fees but allowed colleges to charge Rs 60,000 […]

EVERYBODY knows that justice is a basic need. But not many think of justice as an economic input. Yet no economic reform, including the one India has embarked on, can succeed fully without judicial reform. Justice is as essential an input for liberalising economy as deregulation or globalisation. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund

THE profusion of environment writings in the press on the. occasion of the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro has probably confused readers as much as it informs them. They are told one day that poverty is the greatest pollutant. Then the next day they are told that, the greatest pollution is the excessive consumption

Atal Behari Vajpayee\’s visit to the US succeeded in consolidating recent gains in US-ties. There are many reasons for the sea- change in relations: The end of the Cold War, collapse of the Soviet Union, bombing of American embassies by Osama bin Laden (which made India and the US common victims of outfits like the

ARE you among those who think that consumer durables cater only to an upper crust of 100 million people or so? Think again. The most comprehensive survey, conducted in 1987-88 by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), suggests that consumer durables are used by income groups covering at least 500 million people –