The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 24, 2007

CEMENT
Cement: The hardening impasse
The Centre, convinced that cement is one of the contributors to the inflation, wants the industry to cut prices and has initiated several measures to that end. Defending this argument, the industry thinks the Government must let the market rule as it had when the industry was in the doldrums. More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
PERSPECTIVE
Is Judiciary too forgiving?
The Indian Constitution stands on the three pillars of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary, each acting as a `check and balance' on the other. Such checks and balances are necessary on all three and it was not the intention of the ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Caribbean: A place in the sun for Indian business
Indian companies have, over the last decade or so, invested $3 billion in the Caribbean region, and Trinidad and Tobago, in particular. The region, rich in natural gas and oil, as well as in mineral reserves, apart from its focus on sugarcane and eth anol, has immense opportunities for Indian business. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
India needs a unique SEZ model
Rather then replicate the Chinese experience, India must device its own approach to suit its circumstances, such as the high domestic consumption. More

POLITICS
Freedom: Yours, mine and theirs
We should be ever grateful to the Mahatma and his band of leaders for suffering both physically and mentally for the sake of freedom of our and coming generations. The immense value of freedom is well known and is explicit when it is not there. ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Making civil services citizen-centric
A clarion call from the Prime Minister for engineering reforms in the Indian Civil Services was the screaming headlines last week. Read in the context of such pronouncements in the past decade or so, they ring ... More

BOOKS
Brace up to decode RBI's Delphic pronouncements
Even as the nation waits to decipher which way the RBI chief will turn the money supply valve, Basic Economics offers some key pointers to the action of the central bank that, as Indian Administration: Politics, Policies and Prospects, points out is not always independent. But, then, that may also be a problem associated with liquidity management, as Liquidity Risk: Measurement and Management empathises. More

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