The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 28, 2003

Year of bounty
IN A QUIRK of economic theory, the traditional law of demand and supply has seemingly not worked this year in the farm sector, happily so for farmers. Normally when farm output goes up, prices tend downward, unless the Government intervenes to ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Law Day: An occasion for some soul-searching
NOVEMBER 26, the date on which "we, the people" adopted the Constitution in 1949, is observed as the Law Day in India. (Curiously, in the US, May 1, the Labour Day, is also the Law Day!) It provides the occasion for ... More

HEALTH

AIDS: Act now or pay later
TWENTY years after the first case was reported, there is still no cure for the disease, and in the meanwhile the deadly new virus has spread silently and rapidly infecting 46 million people worldwide so far. Such is ... More

STEEL

Steel tariffs: Pitting US against half the world
For developing countries such as India and Brazil, the steel sector is pivotal to growth. If it slumps due to the vicissitudes of international trade, these countries would be seriously hurt. There is thus an asymmetry in the role of the steel indust ry in the US vis-à-vis the developing countries. The strategists who resorted to tariffs, however, did not provide for this, says K. Subramanian. More

CARS

A people's car for Rs 1 lakh — Can Ratan Tata's dream be realised?
More than one-third of the global population of six billion lives in China and India. A small car project will always be viable considering the prospective market size in the region. India has the necessary engineering skills and facilities to attemp t the small car project, even if it requires the pooled resources of a consortium of companies. More

NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING

Rural India and media: Emerging permutations
It is all about the dialectics of change in the Indian media. The novelty is that for once this change is not being triggered by anything that is happening in the urban pockets of the country. On the contrary, it is the emerging rural reality that is making this happen, leading to a virtual urban-rural stand off. More

LETTERS

CAT scam

Micro and macro environment

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