Why has the services sector grown?
Media recently has been focusing a lot on `new economy' companies and it is sometimes suggested that older manufacturing-oriented companies have reached a plateau in their life cycles.

Beware the fear of not flying
For those of you still here. According to a recent release, The Silicon Valley Edge, there are ten stout reasons why Silicon Valley is what it is, but here's the single most important factor that sets Them apart from Us: the high tolerance to failure.

Eavesdropper
This newspaper recently wrote an editorial which observed in passing how efficient the Indian postal system is given the overwhelming scale of its operations and the constraints under which it operates.

Year of the VRS?
Overwhelming response from the employees of public sector banks to the Voluntary Retirement Scheme may make the year 2001, the year of the VRS. About 30,000 bank employees are set to quit their organisations via the VRS this year.

With love from Washington
So the White House has its new occupant, to cheers from Indian observers convinced about a rosy outlook for India-US ties.

Powering information
Few prime ministers in recent years have had the time or the interest in reflecting on how the government communicates with the people. It was an obsession with the late Indira Gandhi. Therefore, we welcome the ruminations of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the subject.