The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 06, 2006

Accounting for heritage assets
Civilisation, according to Mark Twain, is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. To Antoine de Saint-Exupery, though, civilisation is "a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, ... More

Massive intentions
The MCA 21 initiative has worrying implications More

A defunct post
Do we need alternate directors? More

A place for competition
We have the Competition Act, 2002. It is "a modern legislation that incorporates the broadly accepted principles of anti-trust, such as provisions prohibiting anti-competitive agreements, including cartels and abuse of dominant position, and ... More

POLITICS

`Development' binds Nitish's coalition of extremes
The coalition Mr Nitish Kumar leads in Bihar includes not only the marginalised sections but also people from the upper crust and castes. The only political lubricant that can carry forward this coalition is the developmental agenda. The new Chief Minister has made a good beginning in triggering optimism that finally Bihar will be put on the road to development. More

BANKING

Is it end of the road for community-based banking?
The spirit of grassroots entrepreneurship, which is the basis of the country's growth, must not be snuffed out by software solutions that ignore human judgment, and half-baked policies formulated by the metropolitan elite who know more of Wall Str eet than our own Ranganathan Streets, Brigade Roads, or Ajmal Khan Roads, says R. VAIDYANATHAN. More

LETTERS

Bank strike

Wonder fuel

Back to basics — problem solving

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