The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 12, 2002

Climate convention — Blowing hot and cold
THE US President, Mr George Bush, not long ago, declared at West Point that "the 20th Century ended with a single surviving model of human progress". The message is clear: The US was the embodiment of this model. It is this model in which the US, ... More

EDITORIAL

Trading with Russia
APART FROM THE rhetoric, not much resulted from the recent visit of the Russian President, Mr Vladimir Putin, to New Delhi — his second in two years. And yet there is so much potential in cooperation between the two countries that have been ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Telecom markets — Ringing in effective regulations
PRIVATE ownership and market competition are the key drivers of growth in the $1000-billion global telecom industry. In 2001, nearly 78 per cent of the global cellular market was open to competition, against the 43 per cent of the fixed line ... More

AUDITING

Are auditors the most-wanted?
N. R. Moorthy on how the Joshi Committee paints company statutory auditors with a tar brush More

Mirror, mirror on the wall
S. Murlidharan on the need for the accounting body to strive for better public perception More

D is for disclaimer
A FOR accountants, B for badly bungling, and C for caught cooking. Now, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has let loose a Daisy Cutter of disclaimer to get over all problems. It has altered the wording of its basic audit opinion to effectively limit ... More

ECONOMY

Re-engineer public institutions
India can do as well as China, perhaps even better, if the political leadership implements policies pertinent to public institutions with such drive and discernment as to put to use the economy's considerable human resources and technological capab ilities. A billion people would, then, be pulled into the national economy, points out G. Ramachandran. More

INTERVIEW

`Gujarat, belonging to backward'
The first student from Gujarat University to get an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1963), Mr Girish Patel, has few friends in his State. Not surprising, considering his "allergy to the RSS" and strong opposition to the BJP's communal politics. ... More

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Social security for Indians

Political reforms

Disinvestment of oil PSUs

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