The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 14, 2009

OPINION

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Satyam: Truth in trickles
So, the muck is gradually beginning to filter out of Satyam. The ex-CFO, Mr Srinivas Vadlamani is, as they say, singing in custody and spelling out murky details. We appear set for a long, agonising period ahead as the scandal unravels, piece ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Showcase capitalism
In an interview with this paper a day before he was picked by the government for the reconstituted board of Satyam Computers, the HDFC Chairman, Mr Deepak Parekh, had this to say about the erstwhile independent directors of the hobbled ...

ECONOMY: Consumers tighten their purse strings
If there was an iota of doubt that consumer spending has suffered significantly as a result of the current economic slowdown, it should have been set at rest by the year-end festive season across the country. There were clearly fewer people in ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: State of the nation
Is the state of the nation as bad as the Satyam bubble-burst would make it out to be? Is there sufficient reason to conclude that India’s economic prowess is based on a premise which is governed more by the Satyam “collapse” ...

EDITORIAL: Wisdom in difficult times
With the All-India Motor Transport Congress calling off the eight-day-old truckers’ strike on Monday, a very testing time for a Government tackling economic slowdown and a major corporate fraud appears to have come to an end. The nation ...

AGRICULTURE: Cultivate newer technologies
The long-standing policy of the Government to depress agricultural prices and keep agriculture a losing vocation continues ...

LETTERS: Question of ethics
When the media highlighted the corporate misgovernance of Satyam, all hell broke loose. To restore the confidence of domestic and global investors, the government set up a three-member board, comprising the HDFC chairman, Mr Deepak ...

LETTERS: Appointment of auditors
The reported steps taken by the ICAI such as a cap on tenure and verification of assets are most welcome. At the same time, appointment of auditors from the panel of chartered accountants, maintained by the Comptroller and Auditor General ...