The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 19, 2002

Pains of assurance
THE CENTRE'S PLAN to issue guarantee for borrowings by the Unit Trust of India is continued resort to patchwork solutions rather than a comprehensive answer for UTI's myriad woes. It also does not provide the large numbers of investors ... More

POLITICS

Will he get the science of Constitution?
"The office of the President is like an emergency light. It comes on automatically when there is a crisis and goes off automatically when the crisis passes away." — The former President, Mr R. Venkataraman, in his memoir, ... More

Bush plays global Don Quixote... Musharraf gets lease of life
Those political and human rights for which the US claims to be fighting do not flourish in Gen Musharraf's Pakistan. Moreover, even the US acknowledges that the General exports terrorists. More

President who?
AMERICANS have a jocular gem that Franklin D. Roosevelt demonstrated what it was to be a President, General Dwight Eisenhower showed that there was no need for a President and Harry S. Truman proved that any Tom, Dick or Harry could be President. ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

Is biotech labour arbitrage?
THE rising challenge to pharmaceutical and large biotech companies is being addressed largely by bioinformatics — the use of computers to manage and analyse genetic data. The problem researchers face is not just information overload; but ... More

DEBT MARKET

Misfeasance, malfeasance and bond market
PERHAPS the defining moment in the Indian bond market was the Reserve Bank of India's response to the latest scandal in the bond markets. In sharp contrast to its action a decade ago, the RBI actually encouraged investment in government ... More

WTO

Tilting at imaginary enemies?
THE `Whodunit' aspect of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is in the limelight again. The US President, Mr George Bush's knee-jerk reaction was to put the entire blame on the al Qaeda and hold Osama bin Laden as ... More

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