La península ingrávida: sobre la novela española contemporánea.
De todas formas, la especificidad del caso español no reside únicamente en la aparición de una potente industria editorial, de un amplio público-comprador y la consecuente integración del libro y de los escritores en el intenso, proliferante e internacional mercado de bienes impuesto por el neo-liberalismo. Lo específico del...

Jobs or unemployment dole, demand youths.
CHANDIGARH: Police used a water cannon to disperse activists of the Sarv Bharat Naujwan Sabha, who staged a protest near Matka Chowk on Tuesday. The activists from Punjab were demanding jobs for all educated persons between 18 years and 58 years. "If government can't provide jobs to...

Start off right with your D & O application: a strong D & O insurance policy needs a solid foundation.
A MATERIAL misstatement or omission in a D & O insurance application may give your insurer the right to void the policy. Notwithstanding this possibility, some corporate managers complete an application with too little appreciation for the devastation that can result from an error and too little knowledge of...

Keyman cover: IRDA yet to firm up guidelines.
Byline: Mayur Shetty MUMBAI: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is in a dilemma over Keyman cover - the controversial product that life insurers went overboard selling in the pervious fiscal year. While IRDA has banned the sale of Keyman policies with maturity benefits, it...

Saul Dubow and Alan Jeeves (eds) (2005) South Africa's 1940s: worlds of possibilities.
Saul Dubow and Alan Jeeves (eds) (2005) South Africa's 1940s: worlds of possibilities. Cape Town: Double Storey. For an edited collection of conference papers South Africa's 1940s is an unusually coherent book. It is not merely the focus on a single decade which provides this consistency. The...

Politics takes toll on Central plans.
Byline: Arvind Singh Bisht LUCKNOW: Four major projects initiated by the Centre for improving development indicators of the state seem to have fallen prey to an ongoing tussle between the Congress and the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. These projects in question are the...

Wait for riches.
Dear Editor: The Free Trade Agreement and fantastic globalized trade improvements have given Canada greater prosperity. So say our Canadian corporate heads and our government leaders of the last 20 years. And that is true for about the 20 per cent upper-income part of our population. ...

Dutch govt proposes to ban burqa in public.
Byline: RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL LONDON: The Netherlands is to become the first European county to legally ban the burqa even as Muslims across the continent condemned the new hardening of attitude towards religious minorities. Holland's centre-right coalition government, which is up for re-election in national...

Mulayam playing sop card to hilt.
NEW DELHI: The disappointing show put up by the SP in the civic polls has prompted Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to announce more sops for various interest groups. The Samajwadi Party chief, who has been on a populist binge ever since he took over the reins...

5 major myths: many directors and officers have misconceptions about their D & O insurance coverage. Here are the facts.
D & O INSURANCE typically is a multimillion-dollar asset intended to protect the treasury of a company and the personal assets of its directors and officers. Despite its importance, many executives have fundamental misconceptions about this risk transfer product. To help dispel these misconceptions, we compiled a list of...