The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 20, 2005

All-India Services
FOR some years now, the number of successful candidates in the all-India Services from the South, especially Tamil Nadu, has been shrinking perceptibly in comparison with those from other States. This year, only 3 ... More

WIDE CANVAS

The economy: Making ideas work
A sphere where the Board of Trade may run up against problems is its call to the authorities to address the infrastructure bottlenecks in the economy. The crux of the issue is finding the resources to overcome the infrastructure problems on a scale w hich would make a material difference to the economy's growth rate. More

ON THE MOVE

US Customs' Container Security Initiative — Jawaharlal Nehru port to be boxed in first
The security measures being prescribed by the US agencies for host countries are costly to implement. Who is going to pay for it? More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

With crude price, monsoon addding pressure — Relying too much on Reliance?
The country may not be pathetically dependent on the rain god as in yesteryears, but two consecutive rain deficient years may put additional burden on demand and GDP growth. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Lot of new offers in pipeline
IF you had been investing in equity funds, chances are that you are now faced with that classical question: Is this a time to exit, partially or even entirely, from the market? Your poser would have been based on a few simple things - the ... More

ADR WATCH

Interest perks up in HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank
BENCHMARKS, both at the US and Indian markets, finished on sanguine note last week; while a string of positive economic reports on manufacturing and inflation pushed up the US markets, Reliance helped the domestic markets. The S&P 500 increased . More

CHAT

Hope is itself a species of happiness
For some reason Jogin sat listening to old Hindi songs in praise of mother, and Sridevi killed her time watching assorted episodes of family soaps. Dakshinamoorthy was trying a new breathing technique to raise his awareness of stock movements ... More

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