OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Bush-Blair bond
ANYONE watching the US President, Mr George W. Bush, and the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, on the TV during their joint appearance before the media at the White House on November 12, would have been struck by a ...
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EDITORIAL
Empowering cooperatives
IT IS INDEED a sad commentary on the state of affairs of the cooperative movement that it requires a prime ministerial promise of a constitutional amendment to secure for cooperative institutions rights which should have been available to them as ...
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INSIGHT
What colour is your religion in a dark room?
SAFFRON splashes being all too visible on the cover pages of magazines, we had better come to terms with religion, that is busy these days litigating rather than pontificating. Religion is "the belief in and worship of ...
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PETROLEUM
Public sector oil companies' merger — Need to rethink on basic premise
Each of the Indian oil companies can emerge as a giant provided it is allowed to go full steam ahead and take competition head on with best practices, up-to-the-minute technologies and timely business intelligence. Healthy competition will only tough en them to face obstacles and forge ahead. The least the Government can do is to enable the companies to become world-class multinationals through internal reforms and revitalisation, and not let talk of merger distract them from their goal, says B. S. Raghavan.
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A compulsive guzzler
IN the not too distant past, the world feared oil prices reaching $40 a barrel. Today, it is praying that prices will come to that level. While economists are busy charting the path of oil a year from now, it may be ...
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TAXATION
Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements — Why a fresh look is called for
There is always a trade-off between efficiency, equity and pragmatic implementation concerns, on one side, and the impact of tax policies on incentives to invest productively, create jobs and contribute to growth, on the other. This concern dictates that the authorities concerned take a re-look at India's double taxation avoidance agreements with various countries.
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TEXTILES
Textiles, post-quotas — A tangled skein for developing countries
THE Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) was designed essentially to correct a long-standing anomaly in the multilateral trading system. Since the mid-1960s, the international trade in textiles and clothing was ...
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MANAGEMENT
Knowledge management: From hoarders to sharers
OWING to changes in the business practices of organisations, there is increased interest in `Knowledge Management'. The latest business practice is to downsize and create lean organisations where fewer employees do ...
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LETTERS
ST on petroleum products
An anti-labour stance
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