The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 26, 2005

No bargains break that are not this day made
MARK Twain assures, "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." So too with disputes, which get tossed about at various levels, ... More

VIEW POINT

Law-makers and breakers too?
Within the bounds of the Constitution, at times a political animal may have to break the law to make a point. But if that animal is an MP what is the state of play between the different roles? More

E-DIMENSION

Buzzing labs in a back-office land
Globalisation and increasing speed to market are causing many manufacturing-based industries to review all aspects of their business processes including R&D and regulatory testing, writes G. Sudesh Kumar in Outsourcing Laboratory-based Services. is a rising trend, as D. Murali discovers in his perusal of the book. More

EX PARTE

What is `toilet of human body'?
RECENTLY, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR), New Delhi, had to elaborately study the phrase `toilet of human body' to decide an excise application filed by Technical Concepts International Ltd. The company, registered in the UK, wanted to ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

RPG Life Sciences shines on its investments
THERE is a buzz around RPG Life Sciences that its investments would be hived off into a separate entity. An R P Goenka group spokesperson told Business Line that such a restructuring was possible. He, however, clarified that the management ... More

SENSOR

Sugar, capital goods move up in buying wave
CONCERTED buying in several index heavyweights helped the BSE Sensex sail past its previous all-time high, to close at 8853 points on Thursday. Frenzied buying was evident in several frontline stocks, with stocks from the capital goods and ... More

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