The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Transesterification — The magic solution for bio-diesel
THE recent press report regarding the automobile giant DaimlerChrysler and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joining hands for a five-year partnership project to develop bio-diesel from the seeds ... More

EDITORIAL

Visa vicissitudes
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will ... More

FERTILISERS

Making NFL privatisation work
FOLLOWING the lukewarm response to the Government offer for divestment of 51 per cent of its equity holding in the National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mr S. S. Dhindsa, ... More

POLITICS

What price the Sri Lanka peace process?
Efforts by Sri Lanka to reach a peaceful settlement to the prolonged ethnic conflict appear to have reached a dead end. By bending over backwards to accept the demands of the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe, has alienate d an influential section of majority Sinhala opinion, though a significant part of the population has welcomed the halt to the terrorist violence, says G. Parthasarathy. More

TAXATION

How American states tax services
Service tax in the US is levied at the State level. In India, it is levied at the Centre, and plans are afloat to extend it to the States. More

WATER

Managing water
A TIME there was when air and water were assumed to be free goods of which there was an inexhaustible supply. Clean air no longer comes free but at a cost, though hidden, in terms of money spent on controlling and ... More

INTERVIEW

`Strength of Indo-British ties lies in people-to-people link'
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending ... More

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