Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, December 17, 2008 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION ECONOMY: Too mild a stimulus to boost confidence The stimulus package unveiled by the Government on December 7 is too small to make much of a difference to the sagging confidence of the Indian industry that is witnessing significant job losses following a slowdown in exports and ... EDITORIAL: Reviving interest Public sector banks have put together their own version of a package to bring relief to potential homeowners and the real estate sector through a slew of concessions. Rates for home loans up to Rs 5 lakhs have been reduced to 8.5 per cent and ... AIRLINES: Hedging against ATF price volatility Civil aviation companies in India have been facing cost pressures in recent times. The grand plans of expansion into the international sector have forced many airline companies to double capacity by ordering more aircraft. ... FINANCIAL MARKETS: How about a Global Bankruptcy Fund? Contrary to the adage that a dead man tells no tales, every financial crisis provides lessons to be learnt. However, each one is different and the lessons appear to have more anecdotal value. Two thoughts emerge from the analysis of ... ECONOMY: Hunger: The poor man’s terror While the brutal terrorism of the jihadis hit the headlines in the last week of November, there is another insidious terror spreading across India which nobody seems to notice or do anything about. This is the terror of hunger and its victims ... FINANCIAL MARKETS: Raters, regulators in the dock When in the early 1990, occasional media reports of US businesses going down the drain due to mismanagement combined with fraud at the top levels began to appear, the public tended to view them as stray happenings which were more in the nature ... AGRICULTURE: Time to revise the MSP formula In March 2008, when there was a big row over inflation and increasing cost of living, the Government resorted to a knee-jerk reaction by importing edible oil, and banning both the export of non-basmati rice as well as trading in several ... LINGUISTICS: Nerdic: The new geek language Wimax, Dongle, Mash-up… these may sound greek to you but it is actually ‘geek-speak’ for many in Europe. Techno-lovers have invented a new techno-language popularly known as ‘Nerdic’ or ‘geek-speak’. ... LETTERS: Bt crops This refers to “GM food: Substantial progress in research” (Business Line, December 15). Scientists with vested interests, ill-informed writers in the media and franchisees of corporate bodies seem to be going ...
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Number portability Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrasekhar • S Muralidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranbir Ray Choudhury • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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