The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 12, 2005

Telephone is no `capital good' if you manufacture H{-2}O{-2}
CASES, they say, are of two types: funny and not-so-funny. To explain the difference, here's the story of Ginni, a company that manufactures cotton filament and yarn. I'm spinning no yarn, please note, because this ... More

VIEW POINT

Guardians of our democracy
THE CONTROVERSY on the powers of the Judiciary vis-à-vis the Executive and the Legislature — focusing on the Supreme Court's recent directive to the Jharkhand Governor to bring forward the date to test the ... More

E-DIMENSION

New deal for rural India, powered by panchayats
LOST in the din on withdrawal tax, and pushed to fringes by the FBT protests, is the `Bharat Nirman' that Chidambaram spoke of as a business plan "to give rural India a new deal fully involving the Panchayati Raj ... More

ON MINT STREET

A cruel change in the name of `global practice'
Mr Chidambaram is probably unaware that provident fund is the lone corpus on which retired old men and women live and if that gets pruned they will find living tortuous. More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Real estate value weaves around
Dealers said the interest in the stock is due to two factors - good business prospects of the company for its fabrication business and assets in terms of real estate across the country including in metro cities of Mumbai and Delhi. Though ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Near-term outlook positive for M&M, Infosys
THE following strategies are based on Friday's trading in the derivatives segment on the NSE: M&M: The March futures contract closed at 537. The outlook appears positive. Buy the near-month contract. The upside target is 560. Initiate ... More

SENSOR

Mid-caps make gains; heavyweights turn bearish
UP one day, down the next. The 7000 mark appears to be eluding the bulls, with the Sensex falling 53 points on Friday, closing below the 6900 mark, at 6853.73 points. The S & P CNX Nifty declined by about 13 points, to close at 2154 points. ... More

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