The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 14, 2005

Long-distance bonanza
A HIGHER DEGREE of competition, lower long-distance tariffs and a wider range of service offerings will be the bonanza that consumers can look forward to from the flurry of recent decisions by the Communications Minister on national and ... More

ECONOMY

For a win-win business plan
Surely no business can substitute for what the state can do. But large businesses can act as catalysts for good governance. Because both the government and the political leadership have failed, it is incumbent on businesses to evolve better town plan ning, better promotion of equity, and better compensation package for farmers, says P. V. Indiresan. More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure investments — Not needed, yet another financing entity
THE Government has announced yet another entity to take responsibility for financing infrastructure investments. The announcement early this month by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, indicates that a special ... More

POLITICS

The Volcker inquiry saga
Irrespective of the findings of the probes into the Volcker committee, a lot of political mudslinging will take place on the issue of why the scope of the probe has been limited and why there will be no roving probe into the 125 Indian companies sing led out in the Volcker report for having transacted business through the oil-for-food programme by paying bribes to the Iraqi authorities. More

GENDER

Turning to faith to find the missing daughters
Religious and spiritual leaders came together to focus on the alarming fall in the sex ratiovis-à-vis the heinous crime of female foeticide and infanticide. There were Hindu, Jain, Sikh and a couple of Muslim religious leaders. More

PEOPLE

Peter Drucker
PETER Drucker who, more than anyone else in the last century, revolutionised the thinking on, and approaches to, management both conceptually and with reference to the real world, is dead. The mark he left on every field of enterprise, ... More

The grand old man of management
THE passing of Peter Ferdinand Drucker, the grand old man of management and internationally renowned management philosopher, eight days short of his 96th birthday, will be mourned all over the world. Hyperbole and ... More

TRENDS

Perils of parallel processing
THE Japanese tea ceremony called chanoyu is a combination of ritual, art, flower arrangement, and Zen ideology. The idea is to focus on the present and forget everything else. But on the basement of ... More

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