The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 11, 2005

Of limited appeal
THE IDEA OF limited liability partnership (LLP) has moved forward with the Ministry of Company Affairs releasing a `concept paper' on the subject. The demand for combining the benefits of partnership with the limited liability of companies is not ... More

ENVIRONMENT

New draft EIA Notification — Unaddressed issues cloud positives
ON SEPTEMBER 15, a new and re-engineered vision of the Environment Impact Assessment notification was uploaded on the Web site of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The mandatory 60 days time was given for all to respond to it. In ... More

POLITICS

Inquiries into Volcker report — Let it not stray into a blind alley
It is entirely right that the Government has decided to leave no scope for idle speculation on the Volcker report and to clear the air once and for all. Only, it should ensure that the two-pronged inquiry does not turn out a damp squib. More

Why France is burning
France is facing its worst civil unrest. Its economic edge has been blunted with successive governments systematically undermining the importance of enterprise. Labour laws not only choke the supply of self-worth and pride to millions of immigrants a nd their children but are indifferent to the merits of private enterprise. G. Ramachandran says France is now a society with a massive enterprise deficit and the current violence reflects its failure to integrate the immigrants into broader so ciety. More

Portfolio for models and ministers
MR NATWAR SINGH is reported to have said that he gave up the External Affairs portfolio in the `larger interest' of the party and the country. So, the word to come to terms with is portfolio. It appears after porter's knot and portfire, and is ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Whither regulatory autonomy?
THOSE who complain about lack of uniformity in the approaches of various regulatory bodies no longer need to do so. For, in recent weeks, it has been realised that regulatory agencies in India do have one thing in common — all of them are ... More

PEOPLE

A people's President
IN THE death of K. R. Narayanan, India stands impoverished of an illustrious son who was gentle and genial to a fault even as his depth of knowledge on men and matters dazzled all those fortunate enough to have come into contact with him. As ... More

TRENDS

Age of rudeness
IT HAD so far been assumed that we are living in an age of information technology and knowledge explosion. Side by side, the world seems also to be sliding into the age of rudeness, as a paradoxical by-product of the very revolutions taking ... More

LETTERS

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