Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, February 20, 2006
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Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, February 20, 2006 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND Private sector performance IT IS high time the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) undertook a comprehensive study of the performance of the private sector in the 15 years after liberalisation. If nothing else, at the minimum, ... More WIDE CANVAS Does SAFTA have a future? The signs are not at all propitious for the South Asia Free Trade Area agreement to deliver the goods. The key to successful implementation of SAFTA lies in the hands of Islamabad and, going by the hints dropped by the Musharraf regime, it does not s eem likely that the key will be used soon to open up the South Asian economies to the advantages the agreement could offer. More ON THE MOVE 
Railways performance — What lies beneath the numbersA RINGSIDE VIEW Undercurrent turns weak suddenly — Talk of estate duty, capital gains tax worries market players DALAL Street will need the God and the Government's blessings this week. A sudden dip in sentiment may reverse the market direction in the short run. Count your chickens: Market did not catch avian influenza on Friday. It seemed an ... More MUTUAL CONFIDENCE FMCG funds score over others HAVE you lately taken a look at the one-year performance figures of various categories of equity funds? If you did, you would know that FMCG funds are fast consolidating their lead over the others, thanks to the 80 per cent or so that they have ... More VISION 2020 
Modernising the village economyThe fruits of economic development fall where educated people live, not where they work. Hence, if we want to enrich villages, we should induce the educated to live there. But for this to happen we need to install reliable means of social services an d transport and other systems that are on a par with what is available in the cities, says P.V. Indiresan. More ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED Uplifting logic for luxury cars PARLIAMENT'S Standing Committee on Finance has submitted its final report on tax matters. The document, tabled in Parliament last Friday, doesn't spare the usual `holy cows' such as farm income and export promotion schemes. The former issue is ... More RANDOM WALK Learning to revere water If the State's Water Policy takes root, perhaps Kerala too will count among the regions and cultures that value and manage water resources responsibly. More CHAT Who would give a bird the lie? Jogin was reading As You Like It nostalgically, “When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.” Sridevi was praying for a fall in the prices of petrol and diesel, as suggested by the Rangarajan panel. Khan was computing ‘return per ball bowled’, ... More JOTTINGS Grooming general managers AMERICAN PERISCOPE Talk about globalisation Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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