The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 25, 2004

EDITORIAL
Leave it to the market
IT IS JUST as well that the Government has rejected the proposal of a section of stock brokers for setting up an official fund for stabilisation of the market. The proposal is bereft of any conceptual merit and operationally infeasible. The ... More

ACCOUNTANCY
Five things to fix before giving fair value a fair chance
SUSAN Schmidt Bies is a name to track if you are an accountant. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, serving a full term, and busy giving speeches on accounting and allied areas. ... More

Derailment on trivial grounds
There is also a need for a provision on oppression against companies, says Mohan R. Lavi More

We need takers for the bad loans too
Ashwani Puri on the role of independent NPL investors in the asset reconstruction company model More

POLITICS
Dr Manmohan Singh extends healing touch to North-East and J&K
THE Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is slowly but surely gaining the respect of the nation and the trust of ordinary Indians for the dignity and grace with which he has conducted himself in the post that was thrust ... More

BANKING
Myths, old and new, of Indian banking
A number of propositions about the banking sector have failed the empirical test. Myths abound about the sector, and Asuri Vasudevan examines a few of them, both in the pre- and post-nationalisation eras. More

BOOKS
Connect to `connected thinking' on standards
WHEN money travels at the speed of electronic pulses on the wire, will it be right to confine your accounting knowledge to the country's borders? The answer is negative, and so spread your wings with the help of ... More