The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Air India's moment
WHEN A PUBLIC sector unit is slotted for an initial public offer of its shares, it is invariably a signal of the Government's confidence in, first, the stock market and, then, in the organisation. In the case of Air India, which has just selected ... More

AGRICULTURE

Agriculture knows no caste
POLITICIANS who are nothing but politicians are capable of limitless skullduggery. On the contrary, technocrats who get into politics generally do not fall below a certain level. Of course, there are invariably ... More

ECONOMY

Undue fear of China Inc?
When Chinese companies CNOOC and Haier tried to buy Unocal and Maytag, respectively, critics saw the sinister hand of the Chinese state. Paul Mooney writes that Chinese corporations are prodded to expand overseas by economic necessity, not sim ply the ambitions of the state. As the demands of China's booming economy grow, the country's corporations have no alternative but to venture beyond Chinese borders in search of resources, technology, and profit. More

INFRASTRUCTURE

SIMPLY ...
Death of governance
PANGS was the outpouring of the pent up angst of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mumbaites. The ones who came forward were those who decided that they would no longer remain indifferent to the ills that they see all around them. More

POLITICS

Right to notings
DOES the right to information envisaged under the recently enacted Central legislation include the notes of various functionaries contained in the files of Ministries and departments? The President, while giving assent ... More

MANAGEMENT

Management by impressions
IT IS but natural that most managers — like anybody else — have their strengths and weaknesses. One such weakness of quite a large number of managers in Indian organisations is with respect to their management of subordinates. More ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

The battle of attrition between labour and the BPO industry
THE latest call to arms to form trade unions for IT and BPO (business process outsourcing) workers has the industry worrying about what it sees as a new problem. Because, for long, the no-brainer answer to `What bothers ... More

INTERVIEW

`We are pushing for decontrol' — Ms Rajshree Pathy, President, Indian Sugar Mills Association
WITH the sugar year having begun, on October 1, the industry is quite optimistic about a likely turnaround in its fortunes. Sugar prices are up 20 per cent over last year. The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), the ... More

TRENDS

Podcasting and the making of a sandwich
Whether you are all of 10 years or a sprightly eighty-one, you can do MP3. For a relative pittance or a princely sum, you can get the MP3 player of your choice. Be hip with an iPod or flip with a Creative. More

LETTERS

BSNL's tariff policy

Rail link to Beijing

Relevance of Gandhiji

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