The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 06, 2003

Intelligence fraud
BOTH THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, and the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, are in serious trouble for their suspected manipulation of intelligence in order to justify their attack on Iraq. Mr Bush is ... More

VISION 2020

Urban amenities, rural ambience
The President may be an evangelist for PURA and the Prime Minister may want 5000 of these urbanised rural settlements, but for that the Government needs to reinvent itself. PURA requires the cooperation of various ministries, and policy changes to in fuse confidence among investors to shift from large cities to the PURAs, says P. V. Indiresan. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Why not talk business with ghosts around?
HAT do you get if you blended a deserted road, unoccupied houses, broken gates, wild creepers, dry leaves changing places and eerie silence? Just the right recipe for a mystery sequence in a TV serial, you might say, before the director shows in ... More

MARK TO MARKET

Hedgers not daunted by cash-settled market
A RECENT article in a financial daily argued that derivatives cannot be used for hedging because they are cash settled. The article concluded that a delivery-based system would be a better market design for hedging ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

To call or not to call
IT IS not easy to get consumers to unite. Non-violent boycotts and protests are few and far between when it comes to consumer products. Even when there is a group of activists not afraid to tear down posters or resort ... More

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