The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 22, 2005

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

WIDE CANVAS

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

ON THE MOVE

Despatches from SAIL plants dip but Rlys not worried
JULY and August (so far) have not exactly been excellent months for the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) as far as movement of finished products is concerned. The despatches of finished steel from its various plants ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Oil issue may set the direction
AS was expected, the fresh investments figures by FIIs were down on each day last week and the benchmark indices did not make much headway. Though the overseas funds flow ended the week in the positive territory, the bullish undertone was clearly ... More

FUND WATCH

Global MFs' asset remains flat
Did you know that there are more than 54,000 mutual funds in the world? Or that at the end of the first quarter of 2005, assets of equity funds represented 45 per cent of all mutual fund assets internationally? Or that the contribution of ... More

ADR WATCH

Weak ending for all except Sify, Rediff.com
AMIDST volatile crude prices, the US stocks declined last week following the weak advice from corporate majors such as Wal-Mart Stores, Gateway Inc and Deere & Co; the S&P's 500 Index slipped 0.9 per cent to 1219.71, the tech-focussed Nasdaq More

VISION 2020

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

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

A call for human touch
CAN doctors insist and wait for money (fees) when death is knocking at the doors of the patient? The obvious answer is recovery of fee can wait - but not death - nor the treatment for trying to save the life. With that depressing Q&A ... More

RANDOM WALK

A `soapy' mish-mash
THE midpoint of last week happened to fall on a particularly auspicious day for Keralites. August 17 was the first day of the Malayalam-month of Chingam, Kerala's harvest season and, traditionally, the harbinger of good fortune and plenitude for ... More

CHAT

You gotta hit the bull's-eye
Jogin spent the weekend reading company law, spurred by BSE's corporatisation, and Dakshinamoorthy tried to estimate the costs of Bharat Nirman, even as Sridevi was reading movie reviews of Barsaat and My Wife's Murder on ApunKaChoice.com… till ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

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

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