The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 26, 2005

Party discipline
POLITICAL parties in India have begun copying the methods of governments, public and private sectors in dealing with their members who publicly ventilate criticism of their policies or of their leaders. The critics are promptly suspended, ... More

WIDE CANVAS

WTO: The next bargaining phase
While the WTO's future is a debatable point, as far as the stand likely to be adopted by the rich at the ongoing Doha Round negotiations is concerned, the signs are that any drastic change is unlikely. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Lower liquidity, higher volatility likely
IT is hard to keep a performing market down. The Indian stock market seems to have overcome the concerns about overvaluations. Through 2005, the market has progressed to scale new heights. Looking back, one realises how short-lived the ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

It's now time for stock-taking
MOST investors in mutual funds, especially those who dabble in equity schemes, want to have their cake and eat it too. At one hand, they want good-to-great returns and at the other, demand complete stability and consistency. To those who do not ... More

ADR WATCH

Wipro, Sify shine
AMIDST concern over the US economy on the back of data showing sharp decline in purchases of new homes, the US markets ended almost flat; while the S&P-500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 0.1 per cent last week, the tech-focussed . More

VISION 2020

Bharat Nirman: Foundation in Rural India
The ambitious Bharat Nirman project can succeed only if large industries are induced to distribute themselves in villages. For rural location imposes no serious financial liability on large industries but small ones cannot prosper in villages as well as they do in cities. Businesses also would be discharging best their social responsibility thus. A win-win for all, says P. V. Indiresan. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Let not the claimants be put to undue harassment
FOR a victim of motor vehicle accident, pain doesn't end with getting out of treatment. Nor does it come to a close with the winning of a case for compensation at the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT). Because, as a claimant, he or she has to ... More

RANDOM WALK

Paddy cultivation in Kerala: Waiting for revival
LAST week the Kalady Rice Millers Consortium Pvt Ltd (KRMC) organised a two-day seminar and workshop, which sought to address some fundamental issues in Kerala's agrarian sector. The theme of the meet was `Revival of agriculture in Kerala with ... More

CHAT

In what safe place have you bestow’d your money
Khan was working with the I-T Act by his side, to prepare a list of changes that the next Budget may bring in. Dakshinamoorthy sat crunching numbers to see how much he’d gained during the year. Sridevi was returning from the neighbourhood church. ... More

JOTTINGS

Annual reflections
AS ANOTHER December ends, one is inevitably reminded of unmet targets and unfulfilled promises, public and private, and can too easily give way to wistful regret. A perennially optimistic friend of mine used to say, ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

France face-to-face with globalisation challenges
We often see developing countries struggling to accept the changes that come with globalisation, and rushing to protect their social structures, subsidies and companies. But France, which had the vision to initiate the move to form the European Union , appears to have regressed and is unable to adjust to the realities of today's world. More

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