The Hindu Business Line : Friday, June 07, 2002

Capital push to power reforms
THE DELHI GOVERNMENT must be most relieved that it has succeeded in its attempt to privatise electricity distribution. "The power situation in the nation's capital has assumed crisis proportions... Thefts of power are alarmingly high and are at ... More

ECONOMY

Bankruptcies or bailouts?
WITHIN weeks of joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as its First Deputy Managing Director, Dr Anne Krueger, got busy promoting "a new approach to sovereign debt restructuring". Briefly, the approach was that, in future, the IMF, while ... More

POLITICS

Situation abnormal
How does Mr Sinha calculate that the economy will survive a nuclear war? And how does Pakistan expect to survive one, their economy is already in shambles, their debt ratio is 110, the military swallows 75 per cent of whatever revenue the country ear ns. India is only in a slightly better position. More

US-Russia: The new entente
GEO-POLITICS brings together the strangest of countries. By that yardstick, the new bonhomie between the US and Russia is not at all surprising. It was bound to happen. But what is surprising is that the US President, Mr George W. Bush, who began ... More

Brinkmanship
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his advisers, have shown an uncanny diplomatic oneupmanship in the way they have dealt with the aftermath of the attack on Kaluchak army camp in which 34 persons, most of them women and children, ... More

TECHNOLOGY

Mashelkar Committee Report recommendations -- Fuelling a clean technology
EXAMINING environmental problems, formulating a pragmatic energy policy and finding viable solutions in their entirety is largely a function of Executive process. Unfortunately, so far in India, there has not been any coherent energy policy and ... More

LETTERS

Flooded with loans

I-T scrutiny

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IT sector recovery in 2003: IDC

West coast ports are `unsafe destinations' -- Insurers impose war-risk premium on foreign ships

Projects facing time overruns must be treated as NPAs: RBI

Not much difference in FDI flows to India, China: IFC

Uncle Sam to look over students' shoulders

US-Russia: The new entente

In Depth
Gender Justice

Simple Economics

Guide to derivatives

Looking back
May. 26-Jun. 1
Challenges before the Railways

`Counter religious divide with economic progress' -- Mr Abraham Koshy, IIM, Ahmedabad

Water privatisation -- Torrent of trouble

Why India lags in wealth generation

Prepaying external debt: Quite necessary