The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 21, 2006

EDITORIAL
Ensuring better human resource
In its own interest, the software sector must play a more active role in ensuring educational institutions aim at higher levels of excellence. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
US telecom sector back on mega merger mode
The US Government is reviewing one of the largest telecommunications mergers in history, the $70-billion deal between AT&T and BellSouth. The deal, most likely to be approved, will sacrifice public interest at the altar of political expediency, s SUMIT K. MAJUMDAR. More

ACCOUNTANCY
How complexity enters law
Bad drafting of laws cannot be dismissed as a minor aberration. It comes with a huge social cost. It complicates simple issues. More

Undue enrichment of IPO scam victims
The Constitution bars double punishment for the same crime but it does not bar punishment of two sets of persons for the same crime. More

INTERVIEW
`The domestic violence Act is well-framed, but it should be implemented right'
There should be more publicity about this Act to increase awareness that it is possible for women to complain not only against physical but also emotional and psychological abuse. — Sarah Matthew, President, Feminist Associat ion for Social Action More

The ICSI does not rank companies for corporate governance
Corporate behaviour is a derivative of socio-economic perspectives of the country as well as globalisation. Legislation definitely helps in stimulating good corporate behaviour, by specifying norms in this respect. MR H. M. CHORARI A, PRESIDENT, ICSI More

BOOKS
Roots of CSR
In a free society, there is `one and only one social responsibility of business,' wrote Milton Friedman in The New York Times Magazine, on September 13, 1970, citing from his book `Capitalism and Freedom.' What's that responsibility? "To ... More

LETTERS

SEZs in China

Savings and GDP

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