The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 15, 2006

EDITORIAL
Open university
With social sector programmes placing heavy demand on the public purse, higher education may have to look at the FDI option. More

AGRICULTURE
A failure on the farm?
The country has failed to produce enough to meet its food requirements. More

En`titling' the farmers
Conferring land titles on landless peasants could be the starting point of attempts at eradication of poverty at the grassroots level. Emphasis will have to be placed on the marginal land and a strong support structure would have to be provided to the farmers, says T. C. A. RAMANUJAM. More

CORPORATE
India Inc yet to set to cross-culture tunes
In India Inc, cultural acclimatisation on working with companies from divergent cultures is just picking up. But there is still a long way to go. More

FOREX
Convertibility — conditions and consequences
Instead of devoting more attention to dollarisation, the Second Tarapore Committee has gone into detail on the possibility of internationalisation of the rupee, which is not likely to happen in the near future. More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
In a state of un-realty
Poor land-use policy has created a demand-supply gap, sending real-estate prices to unrealistic highs. If the Government is serious about pricking the real-estate bubble, it has to contemplate certain tough measures, even if not to the extent of nati onalising the housing sector, as in Singapore. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Building trust
Public life is getting more and more poisoned by the corrosive effects of distrust playing havoc with organisations and human relationships. The maxim, once widely accepted and acted upon, that trust is the one ... More

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