The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Health cover realities
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S proposal for a National Health Insurance Scheme for families living below the poverty line could end up becoming a public administration disaster. Given its dire implications for leakage of funds, it could make the Bihar ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Role of India and China — Route to three billion mobile subscribers
IN THE mobile industry, the road to three billion subscribers in 2010 is paved with a global strategy that must capitalise on seemingly contradictory objectives — winning in the most lucrative markets, where ... More

AGRICULTURE

The moneylender surfaces again
FOR those who thought that the controversy about private moneylenders was a thing of the past, there is news. There have been several suicides among the cotton growers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Even those ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Do grids hold answers to grand challenges?
BASED on ``1,466 interviews with senior IT influencers and decision makers'', Oracle has found that India leads the world in the big jump of 52 per cent on the `Grid Index'. While China has moved from 4.7 to 4.9, ... More

TAXATION

Burdened by more than just tax
The Government has notified the establishment of the National Tax Tribunal (NTT), aimed at addressing the demand for faster settlement of tax-related cases in the various high courts. Even as the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, is expatiating on the need for collecting tax arrears, he should instruct his officers to use the powers vested in them more humanely, and not to harass late compliers, says G. Srinivasan More

ROADWAYS

Road safety, a casualty in Kerala
KERALA really rocks during the Christmas-New Year week, with visitors from both within and outside the country making a beeline to God's Own Country. The State also swings during the week; this was reflected in the high ... More

CONSUMERISM

Firm steps to becoming more citizen-friendly
GOVERNMENTS at the Centre and in the States work themselves into a tizzy from time to time figuring out how to make themselves "citizen-friendly". They draw up highly convoluted schemes and issue circulars in unintelligible gobbledygook, ... More

LETTERS

India's century