The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 15, 2009

OPINION

INTERVIEW: Measuring healthcare delivery AccountSpeak
Getting to speak to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, would have been the most ideal thing to do, to learn about GE’s recent decision to integrate all healthcare units with its Wipro joint ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Watch the value-added space
The wireless telecom industry continues to be in the news and evoke interest across all segments of society — consumers, investment bankers, the stock market and the corporate world. The telecom market is the second largest with close to ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Deferred incentives for executive directors
The issue of excessive executive directors’ pay dominates public debate from time to time with a workable solution proving elusive.The corporate sector, particularly its honchos club, springs to the defence of the existing regime, ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Executive payouts
India has normally been considered a traditional society. This tenet was expounded by poet Kalidasa in his epic The Dynasty of Raghu: “He practised virtue, though in health; Won riches, with no greed for ...

EDITORIAL: Driving a bargain
Amidst all the other distractions in the political and economic relationship with the US, it is a relief that one crucial component is finally making headway. The Bilateral Investment Treaty was first mooted in January 2008 under the ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Recognising human capital risks
Risk in relation to human capital has now gone significantly beyond the traditional remit of the human resources (HR) department. With current economic challenges and in an increasingly complex regulatory environment, managing HR risk has become ...

TERRORISM: Pakistan in turmoil — Army, govt on collision course
The tranquility around Pakistan’s Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi was rudely disturbed on October 11. A small group of militants clad in military uniforms from the “Amjad Farooqi Group” of the Tehriq-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

INSIGHT: Ancient dilemma
Anything China these days, puts me on the brink of a divide – should I belong to myself or should I belong to something greater? I go with the former and so ended up strained, watching the conclusion of the Beijing Olympics and the more ...

LETTERS: Nobel for Economics
Your editorial “Economising Nobel” has raised a timely and pertinent point on the increasing irrelevance of the Nobel Prize for Economics to the profession (Business Line, October ...

LETTERS: New colonisation
“The New Face of Colonisation” (Business Line, October 14) was a timely, perceptive and insightful article. Though the process of staking claim to another country’s natural resources has been under way ...

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 • S Venkitaramanan

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