The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 06, 2007

EDITORIAL
The auto mission
The draft Auto Plan aims to make the country a "destination of choice" for the design and manufacture of automobiles and components. More

AGRICULTURE
Seeds law needs re-sowing
A Seeds Bill was tabled in Parliament in December 2004 to repeal the Seeds Act of 1966. Almost two years, eight meetings and many public protests later, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture presented its report on the Bill to the ... More

BUDGET
Budget 2007: Time for key initiatives
In presenting the Budget, it is common for finance ministers to first narrate the expenditure allocations to enthuse citizens and their elected representatives and prepare them for the bitter pills to come — new or increased taxes and fresh ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
Funding architecture for infrastructure
India needs something like $350 billion over the next five years to create the infrastructure necessary to sustain economic growth and satisfy consumer needs. According to the ebullient Vinayak Chatterji, chairman of the CII's Infrastructure ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Women workers in urban India
The most recent data suggest that employment growth in the first half of this decade has been rapid among urban women. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh investigate the changing patterns of women 's paid work in urban India. More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
When truth can be the deepest delusion
Con jobs and deceptions may never end, because ``they obligingly fill a particular need and satisfy a particular market,'' says Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys: Famous Scams and Scamps. Banks and other financial institutions are vulnerable to frauds re minds Nasty Riches, even as The New Golden Age cautions that "Bizarre events, talismans of an impending crisis, occur every day." More

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