The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Firm steps to becoming more citizen-friendly
GOVERNMENTS at the Centre and in the States work themselves into a tizzy from time to time figuring out how to make themselves "citizen-friendly". They draw up highly convoluted schemes and issue circulars in unintelligible gobbledygook, ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

US rate hikes near end?
Two things make this a particularly nail-biting time for avid players. First, Mr Alan Greenspan exits his Chairmanship on January 31, but not before presiding over another meeting of the US interest rate - setting Federal Open Market Committee ... More

DOWN TO EARTH

The moneylender surfaces again
FOR those who thought that the controversy about private moneylenders was a thing of the past, there is news. There have been several suicides among the cotton growers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Even those ... More

MICROSCOPE

Reliance under pressure on lower refining margins
MORE than the maintenance shutdown of the refinery it is the drop in refining margins that seems to have hit Reliance's performance hard in the third quarter ended December 31. Operating margins are down by more than 2 percentage points for the ... More

INDIA INTERIOR

`Toughest climb' in an unexplored range
ON an afternoon we started out on the long steep climb in our Gypsy from Dhain village (now resettled) in Bori Sanctuary in Hosangabad district to Pachmarhi Wildlife Sanctuary. Bori sanctuary is deep in the valley closed in by the Satpura ... More

ZERO BASE

Do grids hold answers to grand challenges?
BASED on ``1,466 interviews with senior IT influencers and decision makers'', Oracle has found that India leads the world in the big jump of 52 per cent on the `Grid Index'. While China has moved from 4.7 to 4.9, ... More

SIMPLY...

Road safety, a casualty in Kerala
KERALA really rocks during the Christmas-New Year week, with visitors from both within and outside the country making a beeline to God's Own Country. The State also swings during the week; this was reflected in the high ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Kale Consultants flies high on performance hopes
KALE Consultants, which is moving between Rs 97 and Rs 99 before announcement of the third quarter results, has appreciated by around 4 per cent in the last one week. According to market sources, the expectation was that the company may repeat ... More

SENSOR

Profit booking ahead of results drags indices down
IT was a day marked by heightened bearish activity with the markets ending with a significant slide. Profit booking by investors ahead of results announcements by index heavyweights dragged the indices into the red. The benchmark Sensex shed ... More

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