The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 26, 2004

OFFHAND
Getting best of Left
THE Communists cause such trepidation among the intelligentsia that anything with which they are associated is presumed to come to grief. They are taken to be negative, dogmatic, doctrinaire, inflexible and ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN
Markets: Much ado about nothing?
OTHER than Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri - and we are going back almost 60 years and 40 years in time - one cannot think of any Prime Minister with as unsullied a reputation as Dr Manmohan Singh, when assuming office. ... More

REFLECTIONS
Drama in real and reel life
It may not be unfair to contrast the style of governance of Sonia with that of family-run corporates. Most of the time, the business family makes the decisions and then gets its Wharton-returned professional managers to fill in the spaces. More

DOWN TO EARTH
Markets and elections: The delicate balance
IN 1978, Mohan Dharia, the Minister of Commerce in the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai, started the routine of imposing a ban on the export of onions immediately after the harvesting season, ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND
Maruti on reverse gear
RUMOURS of the company looking at poor sales numbers for the month of May saw the Maruti counter come under pressure on Tuesday price wise, despite witnessing huge volumes. Dealers said that a leading brokerage had started selling the index, ... More

SENSOR
Another rollercoaster ride for Sensex
MARKETS remained volatile on Tuesday, as the benchmark BSE Sensex closed the second trading day of the week on a negative note. The 30-stock index was down 21.01 points (0.41 per cent). It was yet another day of rollercoaster ride for Sensex. ... More

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