The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 06, 2006

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Monsoon blushes
When the Kerala coast was battered by heavy rain in the last week of May, the Meteorological Department announced the early arrival of the monsoon. June proved that monsoon was nowhere in sight. A similar kind ... More

EDITORIAL
SAFTA stymied
Pakistan denying MFN status to India and persisting with its `positive list' do not augur well for the South Asian trade bloc. More

ECONOMY
The China-India matrix
China may be on everyone's lips, but India is not far behind. Both, as it came out at a recent economists' meet in Singapore, are the power-houses of the world, especially with a projected combined middle-class population of one billion by 2020. The key to a win-win situation is an Asian integration. RASHEEDA BHAGAT reports. More

Mid-summer economic developments and policy perspectives
Seen in the background of the economic developments of the last two months, commodity and asset prices, growth and policy initiatives should be interpreted with care to effect the right policy initiatives. More

ACCOUNTANCY
Towards effective control of the capital market
Analysis of SEBI's discussion paper on measures to check excess dematerialisation of securities More

Time to solve, not merely measure, operation risks
Why have the BIS and central banks across the globe not found a way to prudently manage and reduce operational risk? More

From uniform accounting standards to standards on uniforms for accountants
Once upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young, she danced so daintily and sang so prettily that Robin Redbreast lost his heart. You know, he was a gallant bird. "So he doffed his hat to Jenny Wren, requesting to be heard." Thus chimes the good old ... More

Weaving a magic
Ten K crore by 2008. That seems to be the mantra of Tirupur's knitwear exporters, after having seen a 30 per cent growth this year, to Rs 8,000 crore of exports. To know how the magic works in the hosiery town, check Knitted ... More

LETTERS

Vidarbha package

Farmer suicides

Grants to graduates

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