The Hindu Business Line : Friday, October 14, 2005

An Iron Lady for Germany
A PHYSICIST, MS Angela Merkel's approach to politics is said to be quite like solving a science problem: Suggest a proposition and work to prove it. Some eight years ago, fighting over energy issues, Ms Merkel, as Germany's Environment Minister, ... More

AGRICULTURE

Farm sector needs a new deal
The performance of the farm sector is worrying. Urgent measures are needed to make agriculture a profitable activity, not only to benefit farmers and a large section of the rural poor but also to give a boost to the economy through backward and forwa rd linkages, says S. D. Naik More

INSIGHT

Don't place all your bets on one quarter alone
ON October 12, Infosys posted a net profit of Rs 606 crore for Q2, short for the second quarter that ended on September 2005. The profit was 36 per cent more than what was achieved in last year's Q2, and beat street ... More

FOREX

Changing view from REER window
FOREX market participants have often looked at the real effective exchange rate (REER) as the anchor around which the Reserve Bank of India maintains rupee's value. And perhaps rightly so, as the REER (the five-country ... More

MANAGEMENT

Elusive administrative reforms
An inability to re-design organisation and administration has been the bane of the nation, and the second Administrative Reforms Commission may be as gargantuan an exercise in futility as the first was, over 35 years ago. More

Narradigm, and staff mobility management
WHEN Copernicus suggested that Sun was at the centre of the universe, he was challenging a paradigm — a long-held belief that the earth was at the centre. A paradigm is a preferred world-view of something at a ... More

Role of generalists
MY piece "IAS for ever?" (Business Line, October 7) has not gone down well with some serving and retired members of the IAS. They feel it is one-sided, giving only the negative side of the Service and has ignored its contribution to ... More

LETTERS

Mindset change needed

A rippling read

Straight to the heart

Development decisions must hold water

Disaster funds

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