The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 28, 2005

On a fast move
THE FINDINGS OF a survey by Assocham, the leading industry chamber, should warm the cockles of many a heart in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector considering the rough weather it has been going through over the past two years. According ... More

POLITICS

Unedifying spectacle
IT DOES not at all look nice for the United Progressive Alliance and the Left parties to be seen constantly bickering in public over various matters of public importance. Interest rate of employee provident fund, foreign direct investment in ... More

EDUCATION

Education in India: Barely a pass-mark
IN THE fall of 2002, International Higher Education published a study titled `Privatisation of Higher Education in India' by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, a senior economist at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration. In the ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Sense from Sensex — Don't just keep count, keep abreast
As the stock market soars, it is the responsibility of policy-makers and stakeholders of all descriptions to steer the bourse and the goings on there in the right manner and direction. Their duty is to see that the Sensex does not soar for the sake o f soaring, but to some definite purpose to, for instance, add to the stability, sustainability and strength of the various sectors of the economy towards which the invested funds are flowing, says B. S. Raghavan. More

WTO

Night watchman carries the bat at Hong Kong
THE much-awaited World Trade Organisation's Hong Kong Ministerial, as part of the Doha Development Round, has come and gone. And what has been the outcome? Did the developing countries get anything out of it? There is ... More

IPR

Intangibles are the tangible assets now
TODAY, `INTELLECTUAL property' has become the most important resource for companies. Tangile fixed assets such as land, buildings and machinery are no longer held to be of great value by many American companies; the trend is visible elsewhere in ... More

FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

Lahiri Committee report on capital flows — Debate on P-flows and P-notes
THE relationship between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Government is more like that between couples. Their differences are not aired in public. Perhaps, for the first time, a major chink is on display in the Report of the Expert Group ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Executive negligence: Consequences and covers
CORPORATE governance is the hot-topic these days, thanks to growing stakeholder pressure, rising regulatory scrutiny and supervision, increasing customer awareness and mounting judicial activism on the role of directors and officers of an ... More

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