The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 01, 2004

EDITORIAL
Will this hike sail through?
YET ANOTHER PROPOSAL for freight hike has been mooted by the India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Ceylon Conference (IPBCC), the world's oldest shipping cartel serving the the UK/Europe- subcontinent trade route. This is the third of the four rises planned ... More

HEALTH
Cyberchondriacs
YOUR head aches, so you click on the Internet and before you know it, your search has taken you to sites which describe brain tumours and you are terrified and start wondering whether you are suffering from a simple ... More

POLITICS
UPA's Common Minimum Programme — I: Issues and implications
The Common Minimum Programme has done a good job of delineating the "human face" of economic reforms. It contains a "solemn pledge" to provide a Government that will not only be accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive "at all times" but also "corruption-free". But a purposeful implementation of the CMP will be possible only if Dr Manmohan Singh does not end up as a pawn in the hands of political manipulators, says B. S. Raghavan. More

Who is the real Manmohan Singh?
Praised by supporters as a man with determination and unquestioned personal integrity, Dr Manmohan Singh's journey from economist to politician as been long and eventful. More

WATER
Interlinking of rivers — Buffetted by international politics
INTER-LINKING of rivers has been much in the news. That the new Government at the Centre is also looking at the idea is clear from the Union Water Resources Minister, Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi's recent statement ... More

MANAGEMENT
In defence of hierarchy
WHEN the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Mr P. Shankar, blamed the "entire hierarchy" of ministers and bureaucrats for the stifled working of the PSUs, the much-debated issue of desirability of such hierarchies has once again grabbed the centre- ... More