The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The strain is showing
THE INDIA GROWTH story seems to have hit a writer's block. The growth rate is slipping. A rising crude import bill may explain much of the negative current account deficit. The Government seems quite content with a 6-6.5 per cent growth even if ... More

POLITICS

Political realities and double speak
What drives political parties to speak in two voices when it comes to execution of hard economic decisions and what implication does it have in implementing such decisions? More

TEXTILES

Textile quota is now history
A COUPLE of days before Christmas, there was a communiqué from the Central Board of Excise and Customs advising Customs field formations about the end of "the textile quota regime" on January 1. "From this date, ... More

WATER

Let the rivers of friendship flow
THE project for interlinking rivers in India is so closely intertwined with Bangladesh that the time has come for both countries to finalise a long-term and massive development and disaster prevention plan. The costs of ... More

IPR

Patent ordinance and reality check
To meet its WTO commitment, India has brought in an ordinance to usher in the product patent regime. But of the effect on the ground things are not too clear, though the ordinance appears to create a milieu for the IT and pharma industries to grow an d consolidate. G. Srinivasan traces the story of the midnight ordinance and after. More

MARKETING

Neuromarketing
WELL, it had to happen some time: Only it has happened sooner than feared. In the beginning, there was only market research — a study of consumer behaviour through surveys of their purchases and expressed or ... More

NATURAL CALAMITIES

A wave to drown the tsunami
AMID the deep gloom of tsunami devastation, as one watched the almost surreal scenes of thousands of dead and lakhs rendered homeless or reduced to penury, there were a few silver linings too. For any Indian, this ... More

A retribution for warnings ignored?
In less than 24 hours, the tsunami jolted awake the whole nation to the reality of its ill-preparedness to meet a major catastrophe and the inescapably global character of all technology. India kept away from the Oceanic Intelligence System. In conse quence, thousands of people were devoured without notice by the tidal wave. If only the Ministry of Agriculture had not abandoned the proposal to install an early warning system wiser by experience of El Nino and Bhuj, the nation may have been spared the full blast of the tsunami. More

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