The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Caesar'swife
It is absolutely proper for the Election Commission to expect that in the interests of free, fair and clean election, everyone who is associated with any part of the arrangements should, like Caesar's wife, be ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

Asset prices worry RBI
`A central bank has no means of knowing if asset prices are indeed inflated. Its primary responsibility is to be vigilant about the health of the financial system'. More

DOWN TO EARTH

Give farmers a real way out
Merely providing credit without ensuring that agriculture becomes profitable is a recipe for further indebtedness and more suicides. More

SIMPLY...

Utterly, bitterly isolated
"Beware the ides of March," said the Soothsayer to Julius Caesar. No such thing may have been uttered to Dr Varghese Kurien last week, but he was pretty much aware of the plot to unseat him from the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

MTNL gains on accumulation mode
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) continues to attract attention with dealers attributing it to "accumulation" by funds. As against an average volume of 18 lakh shares on the BSE, the MTNL counter now witnesses 40-lakh turnover, they point ... More

Bata India jumps on realty play
Bata India Ltd touched its 52-week high on Tuesday on the company's decision to develop its real estate at Batanagar in Kolkata. The shares closed at Rs 219.15, up 12.36 per cent, from Monday's Rs 195.05 (BSE). The counter also saw substantial ... More

Gujarat Gas up after analysts' meet
Gujarat Gas Co moved up on buying by foreign and domestic institutions, dealers said. They said the company, which held an analysts' meet in Mumbai on Tuesday, was looking good, going by the plans lined up for the future. Foreign fund Aberdeen ... More