The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 10, 2007

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Freeing and empowering the Forward Markets Commission
Given the radical nature and the volume of changes involved in amending the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952, it would be better to scrap it completely and draft a revised Bill. More

CHILDREN & PARENTING
Children of a lesser God
Scene at Kanchipuram bus-stand, 11 a.m.: Three Chennai-bound buses parked side by side. Between two buses, a small girl wearing a dirty salwar-kameez bends both the hands of a small boy, who, from his ... More

EDITORIAL
Hard work on Asean FTA
Asean is perhaps too loose and diverse an economic unit to engage in a detailed FTA at the bilateral level. More

ECONOMY
State Finances: A Study of Budgets 2006-07 Are States ready to shoulder increasing responsibility?
With the Centre's resources certain to be stretched as a result of increasing commitments, the States have been called upon to chip in more to finance Plan expenditure. Assessing the States' fiscal position, R. SRINIVASAN examines to what extent they will be able to do so without rocking the growth boat. More

POLITICS
Extremists at work
If ever there was any doubt that Naxalites, Maoists and the like were behind the snowballing of the Singur issue and later the Nandigram problem, it has been blown away by the murder of a local CPI(M) leader in West Midnapur district of West ... More

Reality check in West Bengal
The CPI(M) leadership in West Bengal, and particularly, the Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharji, need to rethink their strategy for the economic development of the State in the light of the chain of events ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Micro-finance — Lessons from Bangladesh
Micro-finance has emerged as a promising tool for reducing the poverty and empowering the underprivileged, especially women. . In India, the Self-help Group-Bank linkage programme, initially started by Nabard (National Bank for Agriculture and ... More

INTERVIEW
Decoding the telecom buzz on deal street
"Vodafone needs a true operating and controlling interest in an Asian operator to re-vitalise its shareholder value." — MR ROMAL SHETTY, DIRECTOR, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, KPMG More

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