Saturday, July 25, 1998
Expulsion drama
Washington has proved it again: while the rest of the world accustoms itself to a new world order, the globocop that believes itself to be its true originator and chief monitor is yet to grow up. First, the US denied a visa to R. Chidambaram, chief of the Atomic Energy Commission. Now, it has told seven Indian scientists working in the US to skedaddle.
What's so special about telecom?
If the Reliance-Enron consortium found less oil/gas than it had envisaged when bidding for the Mukta-Panna/Tapti fields a few years ago, would the government allow it to pay less cess/royalty each year? After all, it stands to reason that the consortium, as so many others, must have envisaged a certain profits-profile to justify its original investment, and that this would go awry if production estimates went wrong.
Bunch of shirkers
Indecisiveness seems to have become the hallmark of the BJP-led government. Within a few hours of Union oarliamentary affairs minister Madanlal Khurana announcing that the final report of the Jain Commission would be tabled in Parliament on Monday, the Union Cabinet decided to postpone its tabling.
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