The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 04, 2005

`Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, to linger out a purposed overthrow'
JULY 26 saw Mumbai receiving 94 cm or rain in 18 hours. In recent days, Kolkata was rained out; Chennai received a record 42 cm of rains in 40 hours; and rains have damaged 700 km of roads in Bangalore. And marooned ... More

EDITORIAL

The daunting task on farm
A SENSE OF déjà vu is unmistakable in the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's speech at the first national conference of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) last week when he urged agricultural scientists to aim for a sustained four per cent ... More

AGRICULTURE

In MP, small farmers face big troubles
HAS technology, access to credit, superior quality of fertilisers, etc, improved the lot of the small/marginal farmer with a landholding of two-three acres? "Absolutely not," says Mr H. B. Sen, Director, Krishak ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Trade begins in the neighbourhood
It is time India went with tariff concessions to its neighbours and concluded a sort of a regional investment agreement within SAARC to facilitate enhanced investment flows. More

PETROLEUM

Peaked over crude oil
A world Peak Oil is a near `certainty'. Even if the chances are anything more than a "possibility", the consequences of such an event are so severe that they merit immediate attention. Shanmuganathan N and Satish Kumar S say that either one can believe the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister that there is `enough' oil or start preparing for a world post-Peak Oil. More

MANAGEMENT

Best business ideas
STRATEGY+BUSINESS magazine has for the past three years been conducting, in conjunction with the consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, a competition in leading innovations of the year, by inviting the public and Internet users to vote for 10 of ... More

BANKING

CRM in banks — Serve thy customer
FOR long, Indian banks had presumed that their operations were customer-centric, simply because they had customers. These banks ruled the roost, protected by regulations that did not allow free entry into the sector. ... More

RETAILING

Caution, please, on FDI in retail
MUCH OF the political class and economists across the country sing the foreign direct investment chorus — some with enthusiasm and some with reluctance. FDI flow, they say, will address India's perennial problems ... More

LETTERS

Conditions in call centres

Terror threat

Bangalore's woes

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