opposed to it, and she knew of cases where a Bengali woman who had a Caesarian section held against her, with tragic consequences. So Wendy Savage allowed a longer trial of labour for this woman,...
From Our Correspondent
December 27, 1986 A Savage Enquiry Roger Jeffery IN April 1985, Wendy Savage's contract as a Consultant Obstetrician Senior Lecturer at the London Hospital Medical School was suspended. 'Suspension...
Menace of Moneylenders in Sagbara Mathew Kalathil THE Antyodaya Programme and the Integrated Rural Development Programme have attempted to bring a certain number of poor families above the poverty...
New Sugar Policy: Better Late than Never SB THE Seventh Plan has been with us for so long now that it does come as a surprise to be told that the new sugar policy announced last week is in fact the...
chairman's tenure was shelved because it did not adequately take cognisance of the real politik that sugar policy has to face upto. It is believed that the last BICP study recommended a virtual...
NEW DELHI Is Private Enterprise More Efficient? Case of Fertiliser Industry BM AN Indian economist on the staff of the World Bank office in India pontificated the other day with great vehemence that...
thousand workers. The cost to the excheque by way of retrenchment compensation as a statutory obligation is estimated to be Rs 250 crore. This gives an inkling of the scale and dimensions of the...
CHANDIGARH WOMENS CONFERENCE Women in Informal Sector 'To Keep on Keeping on' (By a Special Correspondent) A SIGNIFICANT section of working women in the country were engaged in informal sector...
Militant Struggle Feroz Ahmed MOHAMMAD AFZAL BANGASH, president of the Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party and prominent politician of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), passed away in Peshawar on...
December 20, 1986 allowed him to sell either by private treaty or by public auction 200 acres of the non- planted area of the estate, on condition that the fund so raised would be used to pay the...
among the middle and small peasantry. Others in the state government like Vilasrao Deshmukh are new-comers to politics. By contrast Pawar has deep roots among the middle and small Maratha peasantry...
December 13, 1986 PAKISTAN Pakistan Television: Zia-Junejo-Mullah Show Babar Ali THE fact that the media is controlled and manipulated by the government in all countries is accepted by even those...
Slack Demand for Credit THERE has been acceleration in the expansion of money stock M1 both in absolute and percentage terms in the current financial year upto October. M1 recorded an increase of Rs...
MAHARASHTRA Shiv Sena Enters Rural Politics Campaign against Dalits in Marathwada Villages S L and W S WITHIN a few weeks of winning the Bombay municipal elections, in 1985, the Shiv Sena had put up...
i e, Rs 150 crore less than in 1986. While this step will help the USSR to reduce the trade gap, many Indian exports to the USSR will be affected in 1987.
