Accountancy
A contract with basics
Agriculture
The fading rice revolution
Consortium to preserve bio-diversity
Concern over falling output, monsoon dependence -- Polythene-mulch technology for groundnut urged
Ministerial meet on GMOs, June 30
Plea to scrap quotas for big onions' export
Web-based virus testing of tissue-cultured products
Airlines
AI hopes on improving bottomline with revamp
Automobiles
Rallying support
Banking and Finance
IDBI offers royalty premium to lakhpati bond-holders
BoB, FIs combine to tackle common NPAs in combined manner
Loan recovery: AIBOC urges legal reforms
Central Bank net rises
Union Bank posts profit
Pentagon Global net up
Bad debts
Book Review
It pays to be pliable
A package that serves
Financial and Consultancy Services
Coal
Coal privatisation -- a must
Commodities
Silver falls sharply on fund selling
Consumer Notes
Clear the air, please
Corporate
Corporate dilemma
Kerala Agro net rises to Rs 1.27 cr
Nothing like the tit-for-tat game
Natural managers
`New IPO norms may block entry to primary market' -- Merchant bankers plan to petition SEBI
Nava Bharat Ferro net up
Stress on HR managers'role in co decisions
Binny told to submit revised plan
Economy
Is the productivity revival for real in the US?
Money management and development
Editorial
Some more tinkering
Excise and customs law
Concern over new excise pattern
Foreign Trade
Indo-Italian trade to get boost
Key role for India, Italy in financial architecture'
Forex
Oil could upset US inflation applecart
RBI's move on foreign currency/Re swaps -- Response to financial engineering gone overboard?
Horticulture
Rs. 25 cr-loan to Tobacco Board for purchases
Information Technology
AIT to organise IT exhibit for UN meet
Uptrend reversed; Silverline, Satyam among losers
Zeenext ads go `TV-style'
Siemens to launch 3 WAP-enabled phones
HCL launches communication tool
Cricinfo pact with Lankan cricket board
Management
Are trade unions dying?
Communication in organisations -- II
Miscellaneous
Linking crafts
Adivasi winner
No longer at the heights
Learning and how!
Australian cos see India as base
Call for more professional property valuers
$100 million loan
Mutual Funds
Rewards better from riskier portfolios
Anand Rathi to enter MF sector -- Thai arm focus on consultancy
PSU
BPCL mulls VRS for mid-level staff
Petroleum
Crude oil: Slippery ground
ECB access for pvt refining cos likely
Policy
Plan panel for shift in strategy on urban housing
Politics
On how (not) to sell a cow
Power
World Bank calls for `relook' at IPP bulk power purchase contracts
Shipping
JNPT container terminal privatisation -- Is there merit in unions' objections?
States
`Rs 575 cr needed to check sea erosion along Karnataka coast'
Farmers' market runaway success in Madurai
AP Govt steps to prune non-Plan expenditure
Mahanta seeks consensus on ST reforms, VAT
States' role in exports stressed
Stocks
Linking ESOP, disinvestment and VRS, India style
ICE stocks likely to feel the heat
Taxation
Less scope for high scores
Telecommunications
First signs of animation
Govt decides to split DTS
Transport
Bangladesh woos N-E States
Vizag port for venture with IOC for SBM
Dredging up troubled waters
Will it `Concor' the road transport?
First fixed schedule goods train from today
Travel & Places
The heart of Phoenix
Steeped in history
