COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Electoral rolls
REFUTING media reports of strictures of the Election Commission consultant, Mr K. J. Rao, over "mass irregularities" in the State's electoral rolls, the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, Mr M. Sarangi, has said that ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Greenspan faces flak on jobs
The US has an oversupply of low skills and undersupply of knowledge professionals. This equation must change for it to be a high value-adding economy in the global division of labour and retain its pre-eminent position.
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REFLECTIONS
Celebrating love
The idea of a woman as a free-standing entity is alien to India and is an imported item from the West like many other ideas of freedom and liberation.
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MICROSCOPE
Rising costs rob HLL numbers of gloss
IT'S a bland platter that HLL has served up for the final quarter of 2003. Net sales growth dipped to 2.2 per cent in the December quarter, after peaking at 6.8 per cent in the September quarter. This mars the trend of steadily improving sales ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Grasim back on buy list
THE Grasim Industries counter is back on the buy list of several market players. Dealers said that the buying was due to firming of cement prices in various parts of the country. The rise in the cement price is on back of increase in ...
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ON THE HEDGE
Tata Tea: Outlook negative, short March futures
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segments on the NSE: Tata Tea: The stock closed at Rs 385 in the spot market. The outlook will turn negative if the stock declines below Rs 379. In ...
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SENSOR
Steel scrips forge ahead in volatile trade
WITH no clear indicators to cling on to and the uncertainty of the forthcoming polls looming, the stock markets continued to remain volatile on Tuesday. Though the major indices closed in positive territory at the end of the second session of the ...
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