The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 28, 2004

OFFHAND
Global executive
A PREDICTABLE corollary of globalisation is the growing need to attune managerial personnel of all categories to the multifaceted and cross-cultural complexities of its challenges and demands. In a real sense, ... More

ACCOUNT SPEAK
Into the easy-hearted man and hugged into snares
"BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court," is how John Milton's poetic masque Comus begins. Equally interesting is the verdict in the Essar Oil Ltd case that came a few weeks ago from the airy ... More

REFLECTIONS
A Mumbaikar looking beyond Rly time-tables!
IT took the three of us about 40 hours to reach Kodiakkarai from Mumbai with the Dadar-Chennai Express starting at 8.30 p.m on a Friday moving into Central Station on time at around 8.15 p.m on Saturday. From there we made it to Koyambedu bus ... More

DOWN TO EARTH
Quandary of cane, cotton and onion
Farmers were promised policies that eliminate price-depressing moves and lighten the burden of loans and interest. But the Maharashtra Government is trying to revive the Cotton Monopoly Procurement Scheme, the zone bandi system for sugarcane and a pointless liberalisation of onion trade. Are these policies really farmer-friendly, wonders Sharad Joshi. More

EAR TO THE GROUND
Block deal in Jayaswal Neco
THE stock of the Nagpur-based iron and steel foundry company Jayaswal Neco topped the volume chart of the B2-group on the BSE on Wednesday with around 66.75 lakh shares traded. The stock, which was also trading at circuit, was witness to ... More

SENSOR
Markets end on bullish note
THE markets ended on a bullish note for the second day after a sharp downfall on Monday. The Sensex gained 11.78 points to close at 5662.87 points in an extremely volatile trading session. The Sensex lost much of its intraday gains towards the ... More

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