The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 20, 2005

The General who won hearts
Amid the one-dayer, the sherwani diplomacy, and the general goodwill and cheer, the Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf's visit has set India and Pakistan on a new path of peace. This visit also signified a change — on India's part , to deal with a military man, and in the General himself; it was a very different Musharraf who was here. Even if all Indo-Pakistani problems have not been solved, at least a very sincere beginning has been made, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

Dawn of new era of Indo-Pak amity?
AN OLD advertisement of Tata Steel on its purported diversified achievements in several spheres unrelated to its main product used to end with the punch line, "We also make steel!". Similarly, it can be said of the ... More

EDITORIAL

Equity rush
MONEY HAS BEEN pouring into equity mutual funds in recent months, suggesting that small investors are taking to the bourses. Yet, this is no clear evidence that they are really comfortable with equity. For the bulk of the recent flows has been to ... More

AGRICULTURE

Farm loan straitjacket loosened
THE farmers of Maharashtra see a new dawn of freedom. The State Government has agreed, in principle, to pass a law, and, in the intervening period, issue an Ordinance bringing two major changes vis-à-vis loans to ... More

POLITICS

Tiger, goat and grass
WHO does not know of the old story posing the tantalising conundrum describing the predicament of transporting across the river by boat a tiger, a goat and a load of grass? The just-concluded Manmohan-Musharraf summit at New Delhi has given rise ... More

TRENDS

Injustice is relatively easy to bear, what stings is justice
STUNG by too much `sting', the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is said to be thinking of controlling sting operations by adding a set of dos and don'ts to the proposed Broadcasting Bill. Sting, as the ... More

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