OPINION
EDITORIAL
`Trading' the exchanges
Demutualisation and public ownership of shares of bourses are not without their regulatory challenge.
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POLITICS
A world in the thrall of violence
Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal... are all caught in violence that shows no signs of abating. Ironically, the more powerful a few nations become and the more power their leaders wield in geo-politics, the more unsafe they are making the world for its six billion people. Worrisome is the fact that there are no signs of conflicts resolving in the hot-spots.
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POWER
Ultra mega projects may not be a powerful idea
Large power projects may be good politics but raise serious questions of viability — economic and ecology. Instead, a more realistic development model would be to build small power plants distributed evenly across the country so that the sustai nability of all resources is achieved even while the development targets are met, says S. PADMANABHAN.
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MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS
L'affaire AIIMS
The political head and the top bureaucrat/technocrat of a Ministry being at loggerheads with each other is invariably an unedifying spectacle. But the possibility of it is inherent in a situation in which the ...
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STOCK MARKETS
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge
Sensex is down about 200 points. Perhaps, "dancing to a different tune than in other developing countries," as the chief of Naissance Capital, a Swiss hedge-fund company, is quoted in a Bloomberg story dated June 15. Zurich-based ...
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INTERVIEW
`Even 10 pc of world auto-component business is lot for India'
"The auto-component business that is favourable for India totals to some $380 billion. What players like us from the developing world are trying to do is to get a part of that business. And that will never be more than 20 per cent. But that is big bu siness." — MR BABA KALYANI, CHAIRMAN, BHARAT FORGE
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ROADWAYS
Not a people's highway
My wife and I just returned to Bangalore from a road-trip to Chennai. There are two main routes: One, via Hosur, Krishnagiri, Ranipet and Poonamallee; and the other through Kolar, Chittoor, Ranipet and Poonamallee. The latter is less travelled ...
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LETTERS
Plantations sector
Learn from Gates
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