The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 22, 2003

A limited solution
THERE IS A NEW twist to the ongoing controversy over the launch of `limited mobility services' by fixed line operators. In an attempt to resolve the three-year-long impasse between the warring factions — fixed line and mobile service ... More

ECONOMY

Economy poised for recovery
With the end of the Iraq war and lessening of geo-political uncertainties and stabilisation in oil prices, the volatility in international equity and financial markets is expected to be considerably reduced. More

TECHNOLOGY

AJT: Single or twin-engine?
Twin-engine trainers ensure lower peacetime attrition rate and desired safety especially when operating over densely populated areas. Consequently, the issue at stake for India would be to choose between giving its pilots the desired twin-engine trai ner or to press on with the single-engine AJT. More

CARS

Ford centenary: A legacy revisited
THE automotive industry came into being in the 1880s and, over the decades, created a revolution of science, technology and people. Unlike the aerospace industry, the auto industry is of the masses and is, as Peter ... More

WTO

WTO and agriculture — Will it be advantage India?
India must pay greater attention to increase productivity, create exportable surpluses and make agriculture more competitive if the final outcome of the WTO negotiations is to be translated to its advantage. Also, it must garner the support of develo ping countries to press for genuine reforms, including substantial cuts in subsidies in developed countries and tariff reduction, says S. D. Naik. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2003 — Taking corporate governance too far?
The proposals in the Bill to strengthen corporate governance are a bit drastic, and not in keeping with the current economic mood of reducing government role in corporate decision-making. More

PEOPLE

Teacher, preacher and geneticist
HEREDITY matters. If it were not so, there would be no arranged marriages, no patricians and plebeians, no apartheid and no ethnic cleansing. While others were debating how traits were inherited, some arguing that the ... More

TRENDS

Puzzling ways
IN the 1960s, in the city then known as Calcutta, whose citizens well known for erudition and scholarship, the story used to be told of a chief secretary who sitting in the India Coffee House used to do the Times ... More

LETTERS

Wasteful rituals

Housing loans

Dual citizenship

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