The Hindu Business Line : Friday, June 05, 2009

OPINION

ENVIRONMENT: Leading by example to save the Earth
I am Wally. I am the friendly word worm. I live in my boss’ diary. My boss is an important man — he is the Chairman of a big international company with people working in offices across all continents. My boss keeps me very ...

ENVIRONMENT: Nature cure for an ailing planet
It is 37 year since the UN christened June 5 as World Environment Day. Today it is fashionable to “turn green”, at least in rhetoric. After many years of denial, developed countries have at last acknowledged the link ...

EDITORIAL: Old lines
The President, Mrs Pratibha Patil’s speech to the joint session of Parliament quite understandably reiterates the UPA Government’s commitment to the pursuit of broadly the same set of objectives and policies and programmes pursued ...

PEOPLE: Turnaround under Meira Kumar
Of all the party leaders who felicitated Ms Meira Kumar as the first woman Speaker of India’s Lok Sabha, only Mr Lalu Prasad characteristically dispensed with the politically correct phraseology of customary eulogy on such occasions, and ...

PEOPLE: Rakesh Mohan’s great Odyssey
Dr Rakesh Mohan will be laying down office as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on June 10. A panoramic view of his career is difficult to encapsulate because of the array of subjects on which he has made significant and ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Can export incentives deliver?
An expected fallout of the shrinking demand for Indian produce from key western markets has been the demand from exporters for a slew of sops, ostensibly to “minimise the impact of global slowdown”. Their largely fiscal ...

LETTERS: Infrastructure development
The Finance Ministry panel’s recommendation that infrastructure projects be subject to much simpler environment clearance rules (Business Line, June 3) merits serious consideration and earnest implementation by ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan

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