The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 26, 2004

EMPLOYMENT
A new diplomacy for Destination India
To make India an attractive destination for work, the country needs to make the proposition attractive. This can be accomplished by addressing the twin aspects of physical and emotional health. More

EDITORIAL
A new wage deal
WHEN THE BANK wage talks started, the trade unions demanded a near-35 per cent hike in pay and perquisites to the managements' offer of around 6 per cent rise. Attritional talks over the last few months have finally got the Indian Banks' ... More

FOREX
`Forex reserves for public investment, a sound idea'
Analysts contend that adequate private investment will not flow to many critical infrastructure areas unless financial and regulatory constraints are addressed. And with the bulk of the country's forex reserves earning abysmal returns, it makes bette r sense to deploy the surplus in public investments — an idea mooted and defended by Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, who elaborated on this theme to G. Srinivasan. More

POLITICS
Worth emulation
CAN you imagine, even for a fleeting moment, Ms Jayalalithaa and Mr M. Karunanidhi, Mr Bal Thackeray and Mr Harkishen Singh Surjeet, or Mr Jyoti Basu and Ms Mamta Banerji appearing on the same platform and showering ... More

LETTERS

A welcome move

Bank employees' demands

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