The Hindu Business Line : Friday, December 26, 2003

Tame end to telecom tangle
THE three-year long, bitter dispute involving introduction of limited mobility services has ended tamely, auguring well for the long-term development of the mobile market in India. There was hardly any surprise element in the latest decision of ... More

BUDGET

Five `I's for Budget 2004-05
In the coming Budget, the Government ought to focus on `I's: Interest rates, Investment, Infrastructure, Information and Image. The Finance Minister who, in his previous portfolio, did a lot to enhance the country's prestige should use the Budget to deliver a message on all the positives that have happened thanks mostly to the private sector, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

FOREX

Dollar: Thrown into the vortex of unknown
IN TODAY'S world economy, the yellow metal is not international money officially, but just a commodity and, yet, it has begun to merit attention from international money and hedge fund managers as an attractive ... More

POLITICS

Job reservation
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, seems to have finally yielded to the insistent demands for reservation of jobs in the private sector for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (SCs/STs) as also for the ... More

TEXTILES

Growth of Chinese textile industry — Can India weave the same magic?
CHINA and India have significant similarities. For both countries, the chief task at hand is how best to juxtapose economic development with social upliftment of the masses, who account for about 40 per cent of world's ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Making whistle-blowing 100 per cent safe
Whistle-blowing is one sure way of getting the signals of corruption in high places across before serious damage is done. Otherwise, these may not surface for years, as with the stamp scam. The government's antennae must, therefore, be tuned to catch these warning signals in time without betraying the confidence of the whistle-blowers. The government must, apart from tracking the criminals and bringing them to justice quickly, devise ways by which whistle-blowing can be rendered 100 per cent saf e for the informants. More

LETTERS

Fiscal discipline

Processed food

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