The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 22, 2005

South Africa — Empowering enterprise on merit, not numbers
DIAGONAL Street in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, houses several Indian-owned retail stores. In the heyday of apartheid, blacks could visit this street for their purchases, but most other areas in that ... More

EDITORIAL

Change of avatar
THERE ARE CONSIDERABLE expectations from BSE Ltd, the new incarnation of the 130-year-old Bombay Stock Exchange. The compulsion to reorganise itself came from the regulatory side with the traditional form of running a bourse outliving its ... More

ECONOMY

The West and Asia's perceived dominance
MANY observers of the global economy have noticed the rising importance of Asia in the global power equation. The US' increasing dependence on support from the Asian central banks' forex reserves invested in US ... More

HEALTH

Ideal doctor
EVERYONE has visions of the ideal spouse, ideal politician, or ideal employer or employee. If you look searchingly around, you might even find one. An ideal doctor, however, is hard to come by. Although a model code of conduct for the ideal ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Creating cities within metros
A modified system of City of London-type municipal administration may be the answer for India's metros. Divided into small neighbourhoods, each with its own civic authority looking after the water needs, the poor and the commercial interests, this sy stem will introduce competition to attract more and better employers, who foot the bill for maintaining their part of the city, where citizens pay no taxes. P. V. Indiresan expounds on this model. More

POLITICS

UN Bush-whacked
THE resignation of Mr Benon Sevan, a senior official of the United Nations (UN), as also the arrest of another senior official, Mr Alexander Yakovlev, following an independent inquiry headed by Mr Paul Volcker, former ... More

Maturing of Manmohan Singh
THOUGH Dr Manmohan Singh has spent a number of years in public life, it is said of him that he continues to remain at heart an academic, an economist to be specific. An attempt is made here to probe the truth of this ... More