The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 12, 2003

The Dabhol award
IT SHOULD OCCASION no surprise that the arbitrators to the dispute between the two consortium partners in the Dabhol power project and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which underwrote their investment risk in the project, have found ... More

ECONOMY

Gujarat plots debt swap a la India Inc
THE Gujarat Government yet again leads the rest of the country, taking a leaf out of the fiscal prudence book of Corporate India. Its initiative comes by way of an ambitious debt swap plan that is already being ... More

Where is manufacturing headed?
Some years ago, there was expectation that the Indian manufacturing sector would be the world's source of components. But its impact on the international manufacturing base has been nowhere near that of Korea, Taiwan or China. And policy hurdles are largely to blame. More

POLITICS

The arithmetic of annexation
THE WAR waged by the US and some of its allies against Iraq rested on one promise and one premise. The premise was that the Saddam Hussein regime possessed a clandestine cache of weapons of mass destruction which, in ... More

TERRORISM

Terror infrastructure in Pakistan
Candlelight vigils at the Wagah border, and sentimental reminiscing about common culture and values cannot dilute the fact that the military establishment in Pakistan and the ISI are using the fundamentalist organisations and the terror infrastructur e to undermine the very basis of a united, secular and pluralistic India. Sadly, little effort is made to educate public opinion in India about these realities, says G. Parthasarathy. More

BANKING

Insider or outsider, continuity matters
THE news of the appointment of Mr M. Venugopalan as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of India was welcomed with jubilation by the staff of Bank of India as this is perhaps the first time that a person who ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Lowering risk, trade-for-trade
THE shifting of select stocks to the trade-for-trade segment by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) augurs well for the market. The measure is likely to curb circular trading in these ... More

SOCIAL WELFARE

Help for senior citizens
THIS piece is earnestly to plead for a help line for senior citizens in the form of either special police stations (as there are for women) or centres set up by voluntary organisations, or even as an activity undertaken ... More

LETTERS

Port regulations

Highly risky

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