The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 21, 2003

A master for shipping
NOT SO LONG ago, when the freight market was in the dumps, shipowners were vociferously complaining about their dwindling incomes while shippers silently enjoyed the bonanza in a depressed market. Now that the situation is slowly reversing, the ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Succession and secularism: Will a common civil code help?
ON July 21, 2003 the Supreme Court desiderated that Parliament is still to step in to frame a common civil code; a common code will help the cause of national integration by removing the contradictions based on ... More

STEEL

Steel war across the Atlantic
A trade war between the EU, ready with its $2.2-billion sanctions through tariffs on select American goods, and the US is looming large and is likely to engulf other nations aggrieved over Washington's protectionism. More

DISINVESTMENT

Privatisation: Perils of dithering
With the disinvestment target falling short by a whopping Rs 8,000 crore, it is surprising that the Government is still dithering about offering shares to the public in such major undertakings as IOC and ONGC, which can easily fetch over Rs 5,000 cro re. With the Sensex at an all-time high, this is the time to offer the public shares in state-owned enterprises, says T. C. A. Ramanujam. More

INTERVIEW

`We need to mould our scientific talent'
`Our research potential needs to be complemented with great determination for quality and technological perfection.' More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Scary scene
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles ... More

LETTERS

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