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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
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Ranking against peers
IT HAS nowadays become common to rank institutions which offer similar services or perform similar functions. For instance, educational institutions, such as universities, colleges or business schools are evaluated with reference to specified ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN


The dilemma of inflation-interest
If overall economic activity remains unaffected by rising oil, there is a significant probability of the inflation moving up. More

DOWN TO EARTH


Third-party certifying NGOs — A blow to WTO's Hong Kong ministerial?
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national commitmen ts on farm subsidies contained in the Marrakesh agreements and market access conditions are cleared. Sharad Joshi wonders about the fate of the Hong Kong ministerial, scheduled for this year-end. More

ZERO BASE


Land eight times the size of Nariman Point
MONEY buys land, and wives are sold by fate, wrote the Bard in Merry Wives of Windsor. But it looks like the fate of land sales is bleak considering how NTC's plans have crash-landed. The day's hot topic, therefore, is about the `cooling ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND


Tata Steel falls on profit concern
TATA Steel on Tuesday saw heavy selling on concerns that profit margin for the company may not be sustained in future. The stock fell 2.68 per cent at Rs 373.60 on the BSE with volumes of 17.95 lakh shares; on the NSE, it closed at Rs 374.85, ... More

SENSOR


Weak rupee puts bears on front foot
While the bulls made their presence felt in the early hours, the bears wrested control in the later hours hammering it down to close with across the board declines; this trend has been continuing since Friday last. Click ... More



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