The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 22, 2005

Over-regulation can drive companies out of the public markets
LATELY, more frightening than the market noise has been the regulatory sabre-rattling. Thus, one day we heard party spokespersons putting a spoke in the Sensex wheel, by talking of the strange smell of scam even as the Finance Minister hurriedly ... More

IMPRESSIONS

Halt to a lawyer's lucre
"Kill or cure, hell or heaven, win or lose, the doctor, the priest and the lawyer are sure to get their unquestioned fee." HOW true is this time-tested remark! Lawsuits in the US are in abundance and of an amazing variety. A home owner ... More

RANDOM WALK

Protecting the wetlands in Kerala
LAST week saw the launch of preliminary work by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for the preparation of a comprehensive project for the preservation of Vembanad Lake, Kerala's largest lake. Covering an area of 200 sq km, the lake ... More

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

ROI has many a shortcoming
TO MANAGE quality in a `total' way, you need a new model, says John S. Oakland in the latest edition of TQM: Text with Cases, from Elsevier (http://books.elsevier.com). The core of the model will always be performance in the ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Nilkamal up on expansion plans
NILKAMAL Plastics continues to hold investors' interest. Dealers say that expansion plans of the company are driving value-investors to the counter. The company recently unveiled plans for its retail foray. Its first store, under the brand ... More

SENSOR

Sensex recovers after sharp slide
TUESDAY may have been special for taking the indices past yet another psychological mark of 8,500. But Wednesday turned out to be an even more eventful day for investors and market-watchers alike, as the benchmark indices took them through ups ... More

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