The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, September 05, 2006

AGRICULTURE
Draft National Policy for Farmers: Seeking an ever-green revolution
The 48-page draft National Policy for Farmers is comprehensive, with its suggestions, recommendations and guidelines covering all aspects of, and activities related to, agriculture. More

ECONOMY
Knowledge and the Asian challenge
The scorching pace of expansion in exports of hi-tech manufactured products from China and software and IT-enabled services from India, has supported the view that `knowledge capital' plays a crucial role in the growing global presence of these count ries. C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss the empirical basis for that assessment. More

FOREX
Report on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility — Will the rupee balloon go up?
Though the latest CAC report reads like a travelogue of India's financial sector and government finances reforms to date, it is a valuable guide to the subject of convertibility. Changes will come organically, as a result of political expediency beca use coalition politics does not give policymaker the freedom to float the currency like a balloon, says ASHOAK UPADHYAY. More

INTERVIEW
`We must make education priority No 1'
The economy is in good shape, employment is being generated, but we don't have enough people with the required skills and educational background. — MR T. V. MOHANDAS PAI, MEMBER OF BOARD AND HR CHIEF, INFOSYS. More

CONVERGENCE
Integrating business
For ages companies have been talking piously about treating every customer as an individual; about building lifetime loyalty with each one of them; and about customising products. It is only after the advent of ... More

LETTERS

Bank rehabilitation

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Amtek Auto readies acquisition strategy

Tax sops for pharma R&D may be extended

Knowledge and the Asian challenge

Export price outlook bright for Indian cotton

Of dreams and `commitments'

ONGC, Shell yet to agree on bid strategy for NELP-VI

Mumbai port offers fresh concession in rates

Looking back
Aug. 27-Sep. 2
Chidambaram is right and wrong

Life begins at fifty