The Hindu Business Line : Friday, April 22, 2005

Price support lessons
DESPITE THE CONTINUING support of the designated agency — the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) — open market prices of the country's largest summer oilseed crop — rapeseed/mustard — ... More

INSIGHT

Better than a thousand hollow words is one that brings peace
DATELINE Vatican City, April 20. Pope Benedict XVI delivered his first message at the end of the morning Mass with the members of the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. He began thus: "Grace and peace in ... More

ECONOMY

Software czars, economists and other animals
THESE are, as Charles Dickens said famously, "the best of times, the worst of times". The global economy, after two years of recession, has picked up growth to 4 per cent (the forecast from the Institute of ... More

POLITICS

Alarming trends
THE standards of public life and the quality of political discourse are falling precipitously everywhere, but some States, particularly those in the South, were until some years ago comparatively better off in respect ... More

POWER

Power sector reforms — Waiting for high-voltage surge
The National Electricity Policy unveiled a few months ago has several welcome features, including the enabling of private sector involvement, renewed efforts at SEB unbundling, supply of reliable quality power at reasonable rates, and enforcing stri ct payment discipline on the power utilities and their clients. While the goals are sound, any slowdown in the pace of progress would stymie India's efforts to join the developed league by 2020, says G. Srinivasan. More

EXIM POLICY

New Exim Policy — Putting export growth on higher trajectory
The focus of the annual supplement to the NFTP (2004-09) is on liberalisation, openness, transparency and globalisation, moving away from both quantitative and qualitative restrictions, while improving the competitiveness of the economy to meet globa l market requirements. More

LETTERS

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Settling unclaimed deposits

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