COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 28 February 1996
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Prime Minister Rao's investment offer falls through due to India's inability to generate finances for the promised projects
Washington drags its feet on penalising China and Pakistan over the sale of nuclear technology
With the hawala dust still not settled, national parties get on to the pre-poll business of finding regional allies
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Prime Minister Rao's investment offer falls through due to India's inability to generate finances for the promised projects
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Two low-key states are crucial to the presidential primary season
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Washington drags its feet on penalising China and Pakistan over the sale of nuclear technology
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But what's Valentine's Day got to do with it? It's plain marketing hype
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His only erotic book has risen from the ashes. Now, he is writing a romance.
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With the hawala dust still not settled, national parties get on to the pre-poll business of finding regional allies
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OTHER STORIES
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In an unusual attempt to curb the spread of AIDS, drug addicts are doled out syringes and needles
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Bal Thackeray's surgery may slow down the Sena's campaign
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Pronto pujas and instant mantras speed the new age priest on his way to the NRI faithful
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Yaseen Malik of the JKLF is on the executive committee of the Hurriyat Conference. In the past he has expressed his dissatisfaction with the functioning of the Hurriyat, but he now staunchly supports the grouping.
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Azam Inquillabi is regarded as a pio -neer of the militant movement in the Valley. Though he has pulled out from active militancy, he is still respected by those in the movement. Inquillabi defends the four militants' call for a dialogue with the Cen
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The offer by four militants to talk to the Government reflects the Hurriyat's declining influence
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The battle over the Congress symbol is interestingly poised
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AN interview with Ashok Vajpeyi, bureau -crat and chairman of Bharat Bhawan
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The Bharat Bhawan controversy once again raises the question: should the Government control cultural institutions?
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... they're falling. Tony Lewis' words of wisdom for Atherton's boys
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The fears that led to the Colombo boycott are understandable
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Australia should have padded up and kept their eyes on the cherry
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The Indo-Pak team that played in Colombo makes waves beyond cricket and raises hopes
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What was it about that early evening moment in June 1991, when a hush descended on Parliament and a soft-spoken sardar stood up to read out his first Union Budget?
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Where is the much-vaunted 'trickle-down effect'?
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Joseph Wood, vice-president, World Bank, is confident that reforms will accelerate after the elections. His views:
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In the five years of reforms, the rupee has fallen from being worth 5.5 cents to around 2.7 cents
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Pre-reforms, Nestle was forced to masquerade as Food Specialities Ltd, Glaxo as Glindia
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Indians made 742.8 million minutes of international calls in 1993-94: 142 per cent more than in 1989-90
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The biggest public issue in 1991 was worth Rs 246 crore. In 1995-96, IDBI raised Rs 2,250 crore
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Consumption levels of the bottom 30 per cent of the population have fallen; spend on consumer durables among the top 10 per cent has risen sharply
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In 1989-90, average train passenger fare per km was 9.5 paise. In 1995-96, it's 17.7 paise
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In 1989-90, the Government bought paddy at Rs 185 a quintal, today, it is Rs 360. In 1991, issue price for common rice was Rs 2.89 per kg. Now, it is Rs 5.97
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In 1994-95, 265,612 cars were sold. And projects to manufacture 645,000 more cars per year are either being implemented or have been proposed
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Five years after Manmohan Singh read out his agenda for liberalisation, <i>Outlook</I> commissions MODE to poll senior business executives on the success of Manmohanomics in areas ranging from industry to the rich-poor divide. Also, comments from eco
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Morale is low in the CWC as Rao ignores senior party leaders and woos the state units instead
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The southern belles have made way for Bollywood's new glam girls—the Mumbai bombshells
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta's forthcoming film examines the tension
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An inside story of hi-tech nukes
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Posing questions about women's activism within the Hindu Right
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A fortnight after the fodder scandal broke, Laloo Prasad Yadav suddenly finds himself in the eye of a storm. The scam has caught the imagination of the public and pitch -forked the low profile animal husbandry sector into the limelight. <I>Ranjit Bhu
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A multi-crore scam in the Animal Husbandry Department exposes the corruption at the top
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The ideological divide between the main contenders has blurred