The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 11, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
The N. Korean blast and its mushrooming aftermath
The Pyongyang nuclear test will only push the world a little further towards the brink, the concern being not so much North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons as the inevitability of this capability being available on the market for anyone to bid and buy. RASHEEDA BHAGAT on the provocative act by the Kim Jong Il regime, and the world response. More

The nuclear fallout
To some people, the exploding of a nuclear device by North Korea is probably the best answer any nation could have given to Washington's recent depredations, the most notable example of which was the full-scale military assault against Iraq on a ... More

North Korea gatecrashes into the nuclear club
The US and the world ought to have realised that it was a mere matter of time before other countries with scientific capabilities and the needed resources gate crashed into the nuclear club. More

EDITORIAL
Now, give them education
The effort to end exploitation of children must be accompanied by adequate rehabilitation measures. More

AGRICULTURE
Sow Bt brinjal with care
The next time you take mouth of baingan ka bartha, as they call it in North India, the popular katthirikai poriyal of Tamil Nadu, or the vazhuthininga thoran/upperi in Kerala, all made from brinjal, you may well be ... More

ECONOMY
How Phelps tweaked Phillips curve
Central bankers are said to be routinely guided by Phelps' insights when deciding on interest rates. More

FOREX
Covered Interest Rate Parity
Second Tarapore panel `uncovers' little
The second Tarapore Committee on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility (STC) cites the following recommendation of the first Tarapore Committee (FTC) of 1997: "The RBI should have a Monitoring Exchange Rate Band of +/- 5.0 per cent around the ... More

BANKING
Need to deconstruct bank failures
Only an unbiased study of failed banks would lead to a meaningful strengthening of the sector in the real sense and not through mere display of figures. More

INTERVIEW

Correction

LETTERS

North Korea's nuclear test

Clemency petition

Growing disparity

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