The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Poor reception
THE CONDITIONAL ACCESS System for viewing `pay' television channels, announced with great fanfare, has started with a whimper. Such indeed has been the opposition from forces of status quo that the implementation has been possible only in ... More

ENVIRONMENT

The art of `Green' governance
THE Government of India recently set up a National Environment Authority (NEA) and six regional authorities which are expected to start functioning within three months. The NEA will have the appellate jurisdiction to ... More

RADIO/TV

CAS: The Hobson's choice for Chennai
THE variety and manoeuvrability of the English language never ceases to amaze. So, when it comes to any contentious issue, such as the controversy surrounding the conditional access system (CAS) in millions of homes in India, one can use a ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS

Storm in a milk bottle
AN UNTIMELY milk shortage in Delhi, even as pretty much the rest of the country seems to be milching on merrily, seems to have got the goat of some of the leading proponents of White Revolution. Though the battlefield ... More

BANKING

Measuring bank efficiency: Productivity versus profitability
"... the driving force in the path ahead will be the immense capabilities that we possess in terms of human resource. In the years to come the `human bias' is likely to get stronger and the quality of human resource would become the cutting ... More

WTO

Cancun: Keep the wheels moving
With Cancun just days off, various groups of nations are sitting in conclaves to work out ways and means to ensure that the bicycle of trade negotiations does not fall, and the WTO ministerial does not end in abject failure. This would be a serious s etback to multi-lateral trade, says Sharad Joshi, quickly tracing the WTO story so far. More

SECURITY

Police reforms
THE Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), in its own well-meaning way, has been tirelessly organising in various parts of the country for the past five years a series of 15 or so seminars to sensitise politicians, media, civil society, ... More

LETTERS

WTO meet at Cancun

Exploding population

Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
Subscribe to: Business Line