The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 27, 2005

Co-opting States as exporters
A WEEK AFTER setting an "international engagement" target of $500-billion two-way trade by 2010, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is to address Chief Ministers at the first meeting of the Inter State Trade Council (ISTC). Announced in the ... More

ECONOMY

Is Gujarat up there in governance?
THE Gujarat Government has been going to town claiming to be the "best governed State" on the basis of a supposed accolade by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), incidentally headed by Mrs Sonia Gandhi. If this were so ... More

Cultural stumbling blocks to excellence
India's culture — social and political — is the stumbling block to setting up a world-class research university. For, this is elitist, and elitism raises the hackles of political leaders and self-appointed guardians of social ethics. Yet, the same people who condemn merit-based admissions to professional colleges want the most competent doctors to attend to their near and dear. This is a debilitating dichotomy, says P. V. Indiresan. More

Facing up to demographic changes
THE problems arising from a `population explosion' with attendant fears of food shortages and slow growth is a serious issue afflicting the developing world. The developed world had managed to control their ... More

PETROLEUM

Will oil prices rise even higher?
For the average citizen, rising crude oil prices mean having to pay more for personal and public transport, as well as rise in inflation. Whether the rise in prices continues will depend on the real state of the supply-demand balance in the world cru de market and the perception on the part of stock-players of the way crude prices will behave in the world's financial markets. More

DISINVESTMENT

Divestment: The Chinese example
THE latest episode in the UPA serial has shown the Left and its sympathisers protesting against the divestment of 10 per cent stake in one of India's industrial public sector units (PSUs) — BHEL. It is instructive ... More

INTERVIEW

`Privatise and incentivise transport infrastructure'
Norasia as a shipping line focused on the East-West trades before being acquired by the Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (CSAV), a Chilean shipping company, in 2000. Founded in 1872, and with revenues of $2.1 billion in 2003, CSAV is one of ... More

TRENDS

Laurels from morals
IT IS all happening as if on cue — this sudden springing into action by authorities to rid society of the `pollution' of plunging necklines and rising hemlines, and to guard it from the unholy sight of swaying female bodies in bars and ... More

LETTERS

Farm relief

Fuel price hike

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