The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 25, 2003

Will the real Indian investor stand up?
SOUTH Indians, normally considered to be risk averse when it comes to investing, have thrown a surprise by piping the people of Western region to emerge as the largest investing group in capital market related ... More

EDITORIAL

Power claims
EVER SINCE BECHTEL and GE won their claim against the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for political risk related loss, it was always on the cards that they would seek legal redress to recover the full value of their investment in ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

A special cocoon called SPC
THE Naresh Chandra Committee expresses the view that clause (d) of Section 13(1) of the Companies Act, 1956 lacks clarity with regard to what constitutes `incidental objects'. It is pointed out that this lack of clarity ... More

Debunking the staid look
Mohan R. Lavi looks at the changes to the Banking Regulation Act More

Padded secrets spilling off big bean-counters
TEXARKANA city, Arkansas, in the US, has the following statistics: Total population 26,448; male 12,673; and female 13,775. There is not much business news to show on the city's Web site, and so it borrows `Washington' ... More

TERRORISM

International terrorrism — The Saudi-Pakistani nexus
Even as evidence is emerging about how Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have worked hand in hand to support international terrorism by the Al Qaeda, the Bush Administration continues to chase shadows and blame Iran for allegedly supporting terrorism, as it did with Iraq, says G. Parthasarathy. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Where competition ends and collective conscience begins
THE commitment of the business community to lend a new dimension to development by embracing the principles of responsibility and obligation to society and humanity can be traced to the UN's Global Compact initiative ... More

LETTERS

Agri worries

IMF-Bank meet

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