The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Surrogate auditing
SOME ACCOUNTANTS ARE teaming up to get the attention of the Department of Company Affairs to what they call the predatory practices of foreign consulting firms. The apparent grievance is that multinational consulting firms — such as the ... More

AGRICULTURE

Courage, Mr Rajnath Singh!
The new Agriculture Minister has his task cut out for him. Besides tackling the festering problem of cane and cotton growers, the other imponderables are the fate of the monsoon, the WTO pressures, the GM food issue, and the looming elections. He ha s a heavy and complex agenda, says Sharad Joshi. More

FOREX

Dollar is down, but is it hurt?
THE best thing to happen to the world's dominant money, has happened in the recent months. The dollar has touched its four-year low against the euro and two-year low against the Japanese yen, much to the embarrassment and excitement of monetary ... More

POLITICS

Evian Summit: Non-event of discord and casualness
THE BUSH Administration can be under no illusion that the Evian Summit has lessened trans-Atlantic tensions or allayed fears and suspicions about the hegemony of the United States with its proven disregard of rules of international behaviour. ... More

IPR

IPRs, TRIPs: Implementation problems
THE TRIPs agreement in the WTO is not solely about reform in developing nations. Several developed economics have changed their intellectual property laws to comply with TRIPs. For example, the US, while retaining its unique system of awarding ... More

TRENDS

Spiritual infusion
THE world owes a debt to Swami Vivekananda for being the first to throw light on the benefits of blending science with spirituality. Thinkers before him kept the two in separate compartments on the presumption that they, like oil and water, ... More

LETTERS

Pak peace initiative

Human face of reforms

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