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Monitoring must under global laws
Today everyone from the jilted lover to the Al Qaeda is using the Internet to get back at his or her adversary. Terrorist groups use the Net to raise funds and share information, writes Radhieka Mittal. |
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India leads war on digital divide
India, an IT superpower of the third millennium, is the world’s fourth largest Internet user. Since 2000 alone India’s cyber population has grown by 700 per cent as compared to China’s 486.7 per cent, writes Cooshalle Samuel. |
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The future is passé and you haven’t seen anything yet!
We are connected to people and services like never before, due to new technologies that help us localise and personalise information, which we can share with people across the world, writes Preeti Singh Saksena. |
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Improve R&D for cheaper and cleaner energy
India spent Rs 610 crore on R&D in atomic energy in 2004-05 though the former currently provides only 3 per cent of our power supply. To augment funding, the Planning Commission’s report on Integrated Energy Policy has recommended the setting up of a National Energy Fund (NEF), with an initial corpus of Rs 1000 crore, for R&D in the energy sector. It suggests a mandatory spending of 0.4 per cent of turnover by each company in the energy field, reports Preeti Singh Saksena. |
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Cut T&D losses, boost efficiency
Growth of power is critically linked to the growth of a nation. While India’s economy is growing at 9 per cent per year, around 56 per cent rural households and 12 per cent urban households still do not have access to electricity, reports Saikat Neogi. |
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A future driven by wind & water
India has the distasteful distinction of having the highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions growth rate in the world, reports Renuka Bisht. |
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Fuel for higher incomes, growth
Political economy of power has to be free from populism, writes Vipul Mudgal. |
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Regional trade blocs reduce conflicts, promote growth
Pakistan is the largest importer of bulk drugs and buys from all over the world except India, the largest exporter, writes Saikat Neogi. |
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Tackle social and security issues jointly
Political borders have not succeeded in containing either crime or terrorism, and these doubled dangers translate into an incalculable menace, writes Renuka Bisht. |
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Opportunity for positive engagement
The last few years have seen a maturing of political processes in the region based on the assertion of separate political identities, writes Preeti Singh Saksena. |
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