Feb 28, 2000

Budget 2001
The millennium's first budget shouldn't just be an accounting exercise. It should spell out new ideas for a second generation of reforms and structural adjustments in the economy.

From Zero to Hero
From a compromise finance minister in 1998, Sinha has emerged as one of the most formidable occupants of North Block. That bodes well for Budget 2000.

Budget Busters
Profligacy and wastefulness are inherent in the process of budget making in India.

Burning Ice
The prices of infotech, communications and entertainment stocks are soaring, leaving conventional industry scrips light years behind. Other sectors will recover only if the coming budget offers a combination of fiscal and monetary incentives.

NATION
Laloo Pays for Fodder
It's advantage NDA as alliance partners outmanoeuvre the RJD's caste arithmetic.

Naveen The New Messiah
Led by Naveen Patnaik, the BJD-BJP alliance is sure to win the polls. The problem will be running a bankrupt state.

Jat Masala
A direct Congress-NDA battle in Orissa.