The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 14, 2005

A report sans energy
THERE WAS MUCH disappointment for those who expected big-bang recommendations from the high-profile Synergy in Energy Committee, which submitted its report on Monday. Set up to examine the possibility of restructuring the oil industry through ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Information security is not a custom, more honoured in the breach than in the observance
THREATS are increasing in sophistication, even as employees are lacking in awareness and training, laments the `2005 Global Security Survey' on `security threats at the world's largest financial institutions', from Deloitte ... More

POLITICS

Problems in the Parivar
IN THE battle of nerves between the BJP and the rest of the Sangh Parivar — particularly the RSS — the former seems desperate to prove to itself and its admirers that it will not take lying down the insults heaped on its top brass by ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Not everything need show on radar screen
THE market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India is reportedly perturbed over the recent spate of bulk sale of shares of a few banking companies in negotiated deals that leave no imprint on the records of recognised stock exchanges in ... More

SECURITY

India-US Defence Pact - II: Commitments may fetter judgment
The US-India Defence pact is an agreement between two unequal partners, one having all the trumps and the other in danger of being irresistibly forced to follow suit at moments of crisis. India seems to have boxed itself in the interlocking mechani sms, which could become embarrassing millstones round its neck, fettering free exercise of its judgment, says B. S. Raghavan. More

WORK LIFE

Focus on the future
"THE world is only ten years old," wrote Tom Friedman in 1999, in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The reference was to the demolition of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. In his ... More

BOOKS

Five ways for consultants to improve business performance
YOU would agree that business is not what it used to be. "It used to be that a manager got up, arrived at (invariably) his office, managed the same processes, ticked the same boxes, talked to the same staff, day in and day out," recapitulates ... More

LETTERS

Banking reforms

Stress-free exams

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