The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 07, 2007

EDITORIAL
For an efficient futures market
Setting up sophisticated exchange platforms without strengthening agricultural production is the root cause of the problem in futures trading. More

AGRICULTURE
Some hard facts about futures trade
On February 27, at a meeting in Alwar, Rajasthan, the President of the Kisan Co-ordination Committeeannounced that the farmers of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh would sell their wheat in the ensuing season through one of the Futures ... More

BUDGET
Budget's rural focus can stimulate India Inc
Fiscal 2006-07 might be remembered as the year of fiscal prudence and financial rectitude. The year in which the revenue-side of the Government's accounts surged and expenditure was under leash. But more importantly, as the year in which the ... More

ECONOMY
Changing paradigms for development banking
Micro-credit will have to play as critical a role in the urban context as in the rural areas if India aspires to make any positive impact on its citizens' economic well-being. It just requires a little bit of financial and business acumen to develop a model that will not only be profitable but also has a lasting social impact on the developmental agenda, say SAMIK DASGUPTA and RISHABH BAJPAI. More

RAILWAY BUDGET
Rail Budget: Creating new records
A LAUDABLE EFFORT by the Railways to come out with record-breaking performance. More

EDUCATION
Chennai Centre for China Studies
Almost every university in the US has a Centre for China Studies. That country has also dozens of other institutions established by various groups of scholars and academics for the same purpose. The reason is obvious: China has already acquired ... More

INTERVIEW
We need quality standards in plant-based drugs
The modern pharma industry is stuck with a dry pipeline and plant-based medicines are good alternatives. There must be more initiatives and sops from the government to give it a thrust so that these initiatives will bear fruit in the next decade. — DR P. M. MURALI, FOUNDER DIRECTOR, DALMIA CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT More

LETTERS

Reform in education

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