The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 05, 2005

Snide and biased sideswipes
THIS column conveys its deep sense of shock and sorrow at the unimaginable magnitude and scale of the horrendous devastation caused by hurricane Katrina in its destructive passage across the States of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Its ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Globalisation and persistent inequality
The agenda for globalisation is "dominated by the issues of free trade, intellectual property rights, financial and capital account liberalisation, and investment protection". Absent are issues "of critical importance to developing countries" such as labour mobility and financing mechanisms to compensate marginalised countries and social groups. — The UN Report on the World Social Situation More

ON THE MOVE

Terminal Handling Charges in Kolkata port — Shippers, shipping lines on collision course
Shipping lines and shippers are at daggers drawn over the Terminal Handling Charges of the Kolkata Dock System. The former insist that ports the world over levy THC but the shippers complain that these charges have been used by the shipping lines and their agents to fleece the trade. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Another healthy week for indices
In fact, every journalist, who tracks the market, knows that there is a parallel information channel in the market, which runs all sorts of news about stocks. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Reaching out to investors - communicate effectively
TWENTY years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did. Before you dub this as a little-known line from the Gita, let us assure you that this can be safely attributed to Mark Twain. More to ... More

ADR WATCH

Infosys leads recovery
SOARING oil prices or the killer Katrina hurricane - nothing seemed to have affected the US benchmarks. Riding on oil shares, the US indices posted smart turnaround last week with the S&P's 500 gaining 1.1 per cent to 1218.02 and the Dow Jones More

VISION 2020

REGS: How to make it really work
The Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, though laudable, is an idea that is beset with problems — functional, social, financial, and so on. P. V. Indiresan suggests an alternative that would benefit the poor directly and also their richer neighbours, and thinks this may have a higher probability of success. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

`Employee' is a viable legal concept
WHEN a worker accepts VRS or voluntary retirement scheme, does the relationship of workman-and-management come to an end? With that question in the margin, the latest issue of Consolidated Commercial Digest summarises the Philips Employees Union ... More

RANDOM WALK

Back to the farm sector
Nearly half of the State's population depends upon agriculture in some way or the other. More

CHAT

Prepare yourself to profit by your chance!
Jogin read once again, "New Company Law will protect small investors." Khan tried to do some math about the new special purpose vehicle that AP is thinking of with ONGC. Dakshinamoorthy wondered if there would be a clear mandate in Bihar before ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

KATRINA'S DISASTER TRAIL
A super-power all at sea?
A RECENT front-page report in The New York Times described the extent of corruption in hospitals in Bangalore. The story described how Velankanni, who had just been delivered of a baby in a local hospital, had to ... More

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