The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 02, 2007

OFFHAND
Performing vs high-flying
Long many years ago, there was a book titled How to succeed in business without really trying? which took the publishing world by storm and sold millions of copies. It was written in a ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW
Sentiment turns uneasy
Rising rupee, crude values add pressure More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Index funds - nothing beyond Sensex, Nifty
`Passively managed funds performed a shade better last fiscal' More

ADR WATCH
Banking counters, Tata Motors plummet
Dr Reddy's Lab, MTNL climb on value buying More

VISION 2020
The importance of inclusive development
Including the poor is much more advantageous than excluding them even if they have only social, and not `legal,' rights. Official plans invariably exclude the poor and thus planners get into serious trouble, says P. V. INDIRESAN. More

RANDOM WALK
A healthy trend
Kerala, which is currently going through a boom in private medical services, must chase technological sophistication and infrastructure if it wishes to maintain its market niche in medical tourism. More

CHAT
Interest bugbear haunts the bourses
Khan was extrapolating how interest rate hike would hit the bottom line. Dakshinamoorthy was calculating the economic loss caused by bandh and power cuts. And Sridevi was looking for a safe place to keep her credit card, out of hackers' reach! ... More

JOTTINGS
Be a mentor to yourself
One casualty of a highly pressured executive life is any kind of reading or discussion of subjects beyond the needs of the current job. What leisure there is, therefore, is spent in front of the TV set or with friends. Anything that is not ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE
For realistic lending to the poor
The sub-prime problem in the US has raised the question if unscrupulous lenders pushed such loans disproportionately on the poor who were not aware or could not understand the implications of these special terms. This is unlike the experiences in Ban gladesh and Thailand. More

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