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Monday, January 19, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, January 19, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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COLUMNS A RINGSIDE VIEW: Trading may begin on optimistic note Some investors seem to be showing interest at current levels. This week market may open on a positive note on sentimental grounds, and is likely to follow a relatively steady course. After Satyam and Nortel negatives were factored in to a large ... S VENKITARAMANAN: Who audits the auditors? The Satyam fraud and various actions taken by the Government to salvage the situation have captured media attention both in India and abroad. The fall of Satyam from grace has come at a time when policy-makers in India were telling the world in ... ON THE MOVE: Ports fall short of target Figures released recently by the Indian Ports Association show that in the first nine months of the current fiscal, traffic growth in the country’s major ports was 3.43 per cent, at 391.8 million tonnes (mt), compared to 378.8 mt in ... AMERICAN PERISCOPE: Traffic stress: Companies should take the lead I spotted a poster in a Bangalore office that (I am summarising) said ; ‘Stressed in Bangalore, …commuteeasy.com.’ This poster, put out by a Web site, helps you to find ways to carpool to work and thus make your commute ... WIDE CANVAS: ‘Cooperation’ with Beijing There can be no two views on the proposition that economic cooperation between China and India should be backed to the hilt. The problem, of course, lies in its effective implementation. Very recently, the two countries have been engaged in ... RANDOM WALK: Padding to the paddy fields Last week the paddy fields in Mangilikari, in the sleepy village of Kalliyoor near Vellayani, on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, were swaying to the force of a new wind that may well sweep across the State’s agriculture ... OFFHAND: Profiting from poverty The famous saying of Dr M. S. Swaminathan, the noted agricultural scientist and founder-chairman of the research foundation in his name at Chennai, is that Indians talk poor, but live rich! This is his way of making fun of the number of ... ADR WATCH: Indian counters suffer on recent developments Only Infosys, Dr. Reddy’s Lab end on positive note. While global markets began last week on a weak note, they recovered towards the end, mainly betting on Obama, who will take over the US mantle from January 19. However, the recovery was ... BL CLUB: S.K. Ramesh, Executive VP and Head of content, Hello FM; Anna Adarsh College for Women, Chennai Chennai, Jan. 18 A profession in radio needs a lot of creativity and passion, said Mr S.K. Ramesh, Executive Vice-President and head of content, Hello FM, while addressing students of the Anna Adarsh College for Women at a BL Club ... CHAT: Obama for change, Raju for president Bidyut (an economics professor) is pouring over a report of the latest financial results of IT companies seated in a coffee pub when his friends Mack (an American expat working in India) and Divya (a journalist) walk ... VISION 2020: India not shining in villages India needs ten million dwellings per year for years and years to come. That is not happening because (a) the government is keen to develop cities rather than our villages and (b) urban costs are too high for most ... Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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