The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 31, 2008

OPINION

ECONOMY: Development on autopilot
All of us want development in terms of economic growth, effective governance and full employment. All Governments, irrespective of their ideology, try to achieve these objectives, or at least declare so. Financial resources and systems of ...

EDITORIAL: Doha ambushed
The collapse of the mini-Ministerial WTO meeting in Geneva after nine days of intense negotiations only confirms that the spirit of development co-operation in the international community is not what it should be if multilateral trade ...

INTERVIEW: Making businesses lean
Lean is a business system in which quality is built into the process by alerting the operator or automatically stopping production or service and recommencing only when the root cause of the defect or stoppage has been eliminated.. Whether India ...

INTERVIEW: Delay and dispute in M&A deals
Price adjustment for change in assumed fundamentals of the business is a common reason for disputes during M&A. However, instead of using financial statements as a reference to net assets, the adjustment may be based on certain key value drivers he business..

POWER: Nuclear deal in choppy waters?

LETTERS: Provident Fund
This is with reference to the decision taken by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) selecting three private fund managers, along with India’s largest commercial bank SBI, to manage its corpus of Rs 2,40,000 crore. ...

LETTERS: Rate hike
The Credit Policy announced by the RBI has belied the hopes of people. The upward revision of the CRR and Repo rates is sure to result in the banks raising lending rates further which will put borrowers in difficulties due to higher interest ...

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Radar: Resources elsewhere
Food: Who pays the price (Video)

ADB World Outlook 2008

ADB's Outlook on India

Union Budget 2008-09

Railway Budget 2008-2009

Economic Survey 2007-2008

In Focus
Remembering Ramachander

Ranbaxy-Daiichi deal

People's car

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Tyre industry demands duty-free import of 1 lakh t natural rubber

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Delay and dispute in M&A deals

Correcting cardiac problems in the womb itself

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A fight against rising inflation

Looking back
Jul. 20-Jul. 26
When the remedy does not spell a cure

Attention: News channels

Ten misconceptions about the nuclear deal

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