The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 28, 2005

CHOGM or hokum?
CHOGM is taken to stand for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting such as the one currently taking place at Malta. But in Australia where I attended the meeting at Melbourne in 1980 as a member of the Indian delegation led by the then Prime ... More

WIDE CANVAS

WTO: Hong Kong meet's fate sealed?
Those working against the interests of the World Trade Organisation will do everything to scuttle the Hong Kong conference, because this would mean hitting at the Doha Round, which in turn would be tantamount to staging an assault on the long-term re levance of the WTO itself. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Buoyant sentiment may boost benchmarks
It seems that even though funds from the US and Europe are cautious in their medium-term outlook for local equities, fresh offshore money flow may not stop. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

New offers galore
THE market for mutual funds is again awash with new offerings. With a number of proposals waiting to be cleared by SEBI, investors will soon see a marked expansion in the range of options before them. You might argue that there is nothing new ... More

ADR WATCH

Indian counters lag benchmark indices
THE US Federal Reserve's pronouncements that it may soon end a series of interest-rate hikes seemed to have infused positive sentiment for the US markets as the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched up its best winning streak in more than a year. ... More

VISION 2020

Breaking the city-planning myths
Lack of urban space, high population densities, rising land costs, and poor facilities outside cities... These are arguments that will not wash. What Indian cities lack is proper urban planning and, to address this, both the city administration and the business sector must be co-opted, says P. V. Indiresan. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Death in swirling waters and deep gorges
STATISTICS are yet incomplete about the passengers in the two ill-fated buses that got washed away by swirling waters in Tamil Nadu a few days ago. But what is now clear is that they are being classified as survivors, dead and missing. The ... More

RANDOM WALK

Riding the IT tiger
LAST week Mike Connor, the British Deputy High Commissioner, said some words of praise for Kerala that should delight the votaries of information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO). After a round of visits to British firms ... More

CHAT

The secret whispers of each other's watch
Khan was surfing the Web for knowledge on managing waterways to mitigate the impact of floods. Dakshinamoorthy was trying to reconcile his estimates of outgo on VAT compensation. Sridevi was returning from a choir rehearsal... Just then Jogin ... More

JOTTINGS

Accordion movements
MANAGEMENT practices move up and down like hemlines, following some curious internal logic. Trends in organisational size and structure swing out into greater diversity and complexity and are pulled back in, like ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

Creating a Japan that can say `Yes'
MOST public places in Japan will have a board loudly proclaiming `Information' in English. However, everything else on it will be in Japanese. This can well symbolise, at least for an outsider, the duality one ... More

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