The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, June 18, 2009

OPINION

GENDER: Women in boardrooms
Norway has had the credit of being a peacenik even though its initiative in brokering peace between LTTE and the Sri Lankan Government came unstuck and it had the mortification of seeing civilian causalities assuming alarming levels when the ...

POLITICS: RSS:BJP::Family:Congress
When was the last time that Congressmen blamed their topmost leadership for an electoral defeat? In 1977, after Sanjay Gandhi caused his mother Indira Gandhi to lose the general election. When was the last time that the Congress ...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: It’s time to act on IFRS
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), through its Concept Paper on convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), has indicated that public interest entities in India will start following IFRS for ...

BANKING: Reducing overhead costs in banks
Given the current economics of downturn, banks are the lone entities awash with cash in an otherwise credit-starved market, but that’s exactly the situation a bank would rather not be in. Asset-liability mismatch and increasing chances of ...

BANKING: India must bank less on regulation
Banks on their own cannot always ensure ‘good’ outcomes. There is a need for regulation. This, however, does not imply that each and every part of the banking system needs to be regulated. The recent financial crisis has ...

ACCOUNTANCY: SEZ accounting
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have always had an aura of invincibility around them since they were given relaxations in most of the taxation and other statutes in India. Although the sheen seems to be fading now, the Research Committee of ...

BOOKS: Promote a culture of risk management
Institutionalisation of risk management practices calls for separating the risk monitoring and operational functions, says H. Sadhak in Life Insurance in India: Opportunities, challenges and strategic perspective ...

EDITORIAL: Competition in coal
The news that the Government-owned Coal India (CIL) aims to divest up to 10 per cent of its shares could not have come at a better time with the markets steadily regaining confidence and a slew of Initial Public Offerings in the pipeline. That ...

LETTERS: Sops for lending
This refers to the editorial “Sops for lending” (Business Line, June 16). Banks are prone to risks while funding for projects, particularly in the case of high gestation projects such as ...

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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