Vivian Fernandes's blog from IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:33:27 +0100 IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/pix/common/ibnlogo.jpg http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Feed provided by IBNLive. http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/vivianfernandes/1878/52703/the-bajrang-dal-doesnt-belong-in-mangalore.html For us from Mangalore it is hard to accept at a Catholic monastery could have been attacked. On Sunday (Sept 14) morning, I got an SMS from a friend there editor@ibnlive.com Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:32:56 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/vivianfernandes/1878/52585/modis-management-style-dissected.html Even those who do not agree with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's divisive politics, and I am one of them, admire his administrative skills. In July, I interviewed him for editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:59:13 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/vivianfernandes/1878/52529/whats-the-next-stop-after-geneva.html I have covered WTO minister-level meetings in Cancun in 2003, in Hong Kong in 2005 and this time in Geneva. All of them ended in failure, disappointment and anger, but editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:24:14 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/vivianfernandes/1878/52451/going-round-and-round-at-the-wto.html For five days, till last Friday, the WTO talks in Geneva produced fresh terminology, instead of progress. The negotiations were mainly among seven principal members - the US, EU, Japan, editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:09:10 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/vivianfernandes/1878/52202/winning-the-trust-vote-might-be-good-for-wto-talks.html Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said he would attend the talks regardless of the outcome of the trust vote in Parliament, when I spoke to him on the phone from Geneva. editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:58:14 +0530