COLUMNS
ON THE MOVE
Moving iron ore for steel plants — South-Eastern Railway on fast track
TILL 2002-03, the South-Eastern Railway was the single largest freight-handling zonal railway of the Indian Railways (IR). With an annual freight traffic throughput of about 200 million tonnes (mt), the SER accounted ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Undertone bullish on Dalal Street
If an air of expectancy is the driving force now, lack of other investment avenues is a compulsion for all classes of investors.
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
ULIPs popularity on the rise
But some quarters insist that insurance needs to be a long-term affair and a premeditated link between investment and indemnity may have an adverse impact on the latter.
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ADR WATCH
Indian counters shine
Equities at the US and the Indian markets jumped sharply thanks to economy reports. The US economy expanded in the second quarter at an annual pace of 3.3 per cent, better than expected, in August. India registered a robust growth in GDP at 7.4 ...
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VISION 2020
Can contract appointments enliven bureaucracy?
Is putting government officials on contract the answer to the problem of non-performing bureaucracy. It may be so but only if leads to greater functional freedom and there is judicial support. Even then, the question of selection and recruitment rem ains, says P. V. Indiresan.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
Crime in India, in a thousand words
AMONG the `Current Warnings' issued by the US on its site http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings_current.html, one finds Pakistan on top with a communiqué dated September 24. "Defer non-essential travel" to that country, advises the site, "due ...
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RANDOM WALK
K.N. Raj: Kerala's finest economist
AT a conference in Thrissur, organised last week by the Department of Economics, St Thomas College, several of the best minds in the country came together to pay glowing tributes to a son of Kerala who can be called - without fear of ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
Do violations of business ethics deserve crime status?
MOST newspapers have a junior reporter on the `crime beat.' She is the one who reports on those car thefts, break-ins and murders as part of what is happening in the city. Reading those reports makes us squirm and ...
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