The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 02, 2003

India backs UN restructuring
THE 2003 UN General Assembly began its 58th session with an agonising introspection of failings of the world body in the face of ever-growing threats to peace and security, and the "fundamental challenge" posed by ... More

EDITORIAL

Pursue listings with caution
THE BOMBAY STOCK Exchange relaxing the listing norms appears an attempt to shore up its share of trading revenues. By lowering the equity and market capitalisation thresholds, the BSE has made an about-turn after it tightened the listing norms in ... More

AGRICULTURE

Let's start from the scratch
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition, s ays Sharad Joshi. More

AUDITING

The importance of government audit
TWO months ago, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, addressing a conference of the Comptroller and Auditor General officers, criticised the government audit system, and said it had reduced the Executive to a ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

A few leaves off corporate governance
Dilip Kumar Sen on the whether governance will improve by merely making the legislation more stringent More

Hotlining with the city cops
THIS week, New York will witness high-profile corporate scandal trials such as that of Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco's former chief, as also Frank Quattrone of Credit Suisse First Boston. These would bear out what the US ... More

The accounting argument continues
CONFLICTS over the adoption of international accounting standards, in time for use from 2005, increasingly seems like a game of poker being played while a steamroller bears down on the card-players Interventions by ... More

POLITICS

Congress(I) and poll preoccupations
THE by-poll results are out and most major parties have some gains but also suffered major upsets, especially the Congress(I). Its losing the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Sholapur (Maharashtra) ... More

GENDER

For better, far worse
Narayanasami and his wife were filled with pride when their just-married daughter in the US called up one morning to say that she had landed a job despite the downturn there. How lucky! That was what they thought ... More

LETTERS

SEBI move

Hard decisions

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