The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 14, 2005

Energising power sector
NUCLEAR POWER AND wind energy: Two sides of the same coin as power generation goes. The first is slowly gaining currency in India but still has a lot of detractors mainly on account of the opacity of safety issues. The second is an attractive ... More

ECONOMY

India as a brand
THE Brand Summit organised at Chennai last month by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) did not provide a conclusive answer on what could make a brand of India and whether it is already one or, if not, whether ... More

Rewind the tape, please
Taxing foreign money, as was suggested by the RBI Governor, may, after all, be a good idea. India may not really be able to prevent such hot monies coming and leaving at short notice. How India survives and handles the fallout of the potentially leth al combination of a weaker dollar, higher bond yield and rising oil prices and that too compared to other developing nations would shape not only its short-term growth prospects but also its stature in the world, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

NBFCS

Are NBFCs being hounded out?
A MICRO-FINANCE institution or even a non-governmental organisation can borrow money through the ECB (external commercial borrowing) route, but not NBFCs (non-banking financial institutions), which have been doing just ... More

DERIVATIVES MARKETS

Event risk: To hedge or not to hedge
THE S&P CNX 500 index has climbed over 30 per cent in one year. This movement comes on the back of a sharp climb in the market since April 2003. Small wonder then that investors are nervous that some major event may .. More

WTO

WTO completes a decade
THERE is little doubt that, if one excludes the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation is perhaps the most important international body with a multilateral membership that has been set up after the Second World ... More

INCOME TAX

On fringe taxes and all that — Rollback is not a dirty word
THE excitement about the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram's Budget is still stoking the market, which is on a roll. But as the corporates and individuals read the fine-print, the fascination may wear off. ... More

LETTERS

Budget proposals

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