The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The business of peace
THE INDIA-PAKISTAN DECISION to set up a joint business council is a big step towards injecting some rationality to the trade profile between the two countries. The totally unrealistic character of the trade exchange today is indicated by a ... More

CORPORATE

Putting results ahead of resources
The ownership and deployment of corporate resources will be determined by how critical they are to the accomplishment of a company's core market objectives. G. Ramachandran and R. Vijay Shankar, looking at the Tata Tea and Hindustan L ever cases, conclude that the resources freed by the two majors shedding their status as producers will be a shot in the arm for their operations. More

ECONOMY

Local bodies need financial powers
REPORTS have been in the air of a Constitutional Amendment to delegate more powers to the civic bodies. In his address at the inaugural session of the World Mayors' Conference, the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development, ... More

LIFESTYLE

Mumbai minus the dance bars
MUMBAI could well be the Los Angeles of India. Arguably, there can be no apple to apple comparison. LA's spas have health as the leitmotif; Mumbai's massage parlours tend to focus more on the erotic. Again, one ... More

FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING

Food processing sector: Will it make transition from `outlay to outcome'?
Liability and public action clauses need to be incorporated along with the outcome expectations introduced in the Budget. The size of the population is the key and food safety and standards must not marginalise them. More

BANKING

Retail banking: Effective instrument of transformation
THE level of retail loans disbursed by banks at the end of fiscal 2004 was a record Rs 1,90,000 crore. Behind this figure were several factors: Sectoral GDP shifts, demographic changes, growing middle-class disposable ... More

ECONOMICS

Opportunity cost: The varied implications and complications
ON APRIL 5, we had a great visual and emotional feast — the ODI — in Visakhapatnam, the city of destiny. Thousands thronged the stadium and watched the match live. Many more across the country were glued to ... More

LETTERS

Bankers' woes

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