The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 21, 2005

IAEA meeting on Iran on Nov 24 — Let Govt act in its best judgment
The question before India is whether it should act as a responsible member of the IAEA Board in the light of overwhelming evidence of disregard of its obligations by Iran or whether it should isolate itself from the main body of opinion and demonst rate that it can thumb its nose at the US. Iran being hardly a litmus test of India's independent foreign policy, the Government should be allowed sufficient leeway to vote as it thinks best in the ensuing meeting in Vienna, says B. S. Raghavan. More

EDITORIAL

Growth and equity
LAST WEEK, THREE apparently unrelated official announcements provided an underlying text for economic growth in the medium term. The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, said that the banking system would maintain a stable interest rate regime ... More

ECONOMY

France's burning economic issues
IN THE world of men's clothes, nothing is more beautiful than the tuxedo with black tie — one of the few garments that makes a man, any man, look his splendid best. Tailored well, a tux turn any man — short ... More

POLITICS

Volcker probe: The big picture
At the grassroots level, it can be argued that the seeds of corruption which ultimately affected the operation of the oil-for-food programme were sowed by the rules and guidelines drawn up to implement the programme. The two heads under which most of the wrongdoing was committed were the pricing of Iraqi oil exports and deference to Iraqi sovereignty, both in the matter of oil sales and import of humanitarian supplies. More

How politicians can make monkeys of the media
INSTITUTIONAL failure is no big news for us. Rightly so, if you search for the phrase, with `India' added, Google returns `nil' news, and suggests trying `fewer keywords'. Which I do, to make the search global, and land in Howard Kurtz's ... More

SHIPPING

Domestic container traffic in a jam
INDIA'S international trade in containers, both imports and exports, posted an impressive and steady growth in the past few years to touch 4.2 million TEUs in 2004-05. Between April and October this fiscal, the ... More

DISINVESTMENT

The divestment debate: China's example
CONTRADICTIONS abound in the world of modern political economies. The communists of Russia are today in the grip of robber-baron capitalism and get-rich-quick maverick technocrats. We find China's communists busy ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Extra large weekends alone won't balance work and life
THIS Diwali brought with it a special kind of bonus: With a couple of days personal leave, employees in many organisations were able to manage a nine-day vacation, given the string of public holidays around the same ... More

RAILWAYS

KRCL project spend on track
KUTCH Railway Company Ltd (KRCL) has achieved financial closure and brought down the project cost by about 10 per cent. The cost is now down to Rs 499.7 crore with a debt element of Rs 300 crore. In August, the company ... More

MARKETING

Tyranny of numbers
YEARS ago when a car dealership sold you a motor car, it was customary for them to ring you and ask how it was doing, and be reminded when it was due for servicing, even after the obligatory free services were over. If ... More

TRENDS

Police image
THE hope that, with the achievement of Independence, India will be better served by its police and bureaucracy is yet to be fully realised. The image of both in the public eye continues to be unflattering. Far from earning people's respect and ... More

LETTERS

SAIL and RINL merger

Population concerns

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