The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 16, 2006

OFFHAND
Public Services Bill
The Government has invited the comments and suggestions of the public on a draft Bill to make public services in India, a professional, politically neutral, merit-based, and accountable instrument for promoting ... More

WIDE CANVAS
State of the India-EU dialogue
Where do Brussels and New Delhi go from here? Will the "advancement" of bilateral relations be in the garb of a free trade arrangement or take the form of a wider CECA? More

A RINGSIDE VIEW
Dalal Street in a rosy garden
Flowing Q2 numbers may determine direction in short-term More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Fund managers help in creating awareness
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future - Oscar Wilde It would have been easy for us to start this column by criticising, as other commentators often do (an act some of them repeated when the September-end figures ... More

VISION 2020
SEZs: How to land a good deal
If SEZ developers plan large, comprehensive settlements, of a thousand hectare or more, on uncultivable or degraded land, and introduce quality transport services, build hospitals, schools, and offer such other services, they will be welcomed with op en arms, says P. V. INDIRESAN. More

CHAT
No one can enter at the exact bottom
Jogin began reading a book on micro-credit to catch up with Yunus. Dakshinmoorthy was scanning reports about Bt cotton impact on farmers' financials. Sridevi was planning to enhance her Diwali budget in view of the buoyant markets... Till ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE
When HP lost its Way
Large public companies receive public funds. Shareholders assume that the company is doing its best to use the money profitably and operates legally. The publicity surrounding the HP pretexting investigation should send signals to company directors o n what is expected of them. More

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