The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 30, 2007

RICE
Basmati: Grains of confusion
Remaining rooted to the current definition of basmati rice risks ending any programme for improvement in the quality of the fine cereal. India's exporters want the Super variety notified as basmati, as Pakistan has done, with APEDA and the All India Rice Exporters' Association backing the move. India's crop scientists are also sceptical about the current definition of basmati rice which is not motivated to preserve the purity of the traditional variety or improve the evolved strain. G. SRINIVAS AN on the basmati issue. More

EDITORIAL
Power plans
Till States are convinced that they have to get their act together, the electricity sector will be a worry for all. More

ECONOMY
PERSPECTIVE
Fear not the globalisation
Discussions on globalisation happen broadly under four headings — growing inequality between nations and among different sections within a country; the possibility of some sort of an economic imperialism becoming a reality; the possibility ... More

FERTILISERS
Fertiliser subsidy and costs
This refers to the article `Fertiliser pricing — Time to scrap the archaic scheme' (Business Line, May 12). We would like to clarify that when the system of routing subsidy through industry by controlling farmer price at low level ... More

POLITICS
A session that did not go much beyond Budget
The just-concluded Budget session will be remembered more for the daily disorder, division, anger, acrimony and agitation than for any constructive legislative work. More

INTERVIEW
Start viewing global Diaspora as a brain bank
Multiculturalism is a good thing because it reflects the reality that society is culturally diverse — not just because of immigration — and because tolerance of differences within the framework of liberal democracy is the basis for peacef ul co-existence. — PHILIPPE LEGRAIN, A LONDON-BASED JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR More

RETAILING
The big and small of retail
The entry of big houses in the retail trade should be banned simply and totally, if necessary, under the anti-monopoly and restrictive practices legislation. More

TRENDS
Prime Minister's call to India Inc
The spirited call of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to the captains of business and industry at the annual general meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry on May 24 to be role models in simple ... More

LETTERS

Rupee appreciation

Uninspiring logo

Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
Subscribe to: Business Line

Union Budget 2007-08

Railway Budget 2007-2008

Economic Survey 2006-2007

Top Stories
`IOC losing Rs 2,500 cr every month'

ICWAI moving against CIMA?

S&P launches research service for mid & small-cap stocks

Leather industry feels the sting of strong rupee

Unlocking share value: SBI associates await game-plan

Tata Steel signs MoU with Vietnam company

Looking back
May. 20-May. 26
Keeping the faith, violently

Growth, inflation and interest rates

ECB curbs and market-control measures — Does the RBI have a choice?

Has Saudi oil production peaked?