The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 21, 2002

Selling sick PSUs
JESSOP AND PARADEEP Phosphates, the two ailing public sector undertakings shortlisted for privatisation this fiscal, will provide another test for the Government's disinvestment initiative. Bids are to be invited in the next few days and offers ... More

ECONOMY

Currency: The seductive demon
SO much of a nation's psyche, honour, and fortunes are tied up with its currency. We put national symbols and the images of heroes on the coins and notes that we use. A nation's history is captured on these pieces of paper and metal. Even songs ... More

Cutting flab

FOREX

The yen and Asian currencies
THE Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Junichiro Koizumi, was on a tour of Asian countries to demonstrate the commitment of Japan to this part of the world. Shortly after he left Malaysia, the President Dr Mahathir Mohammed said that if the yen ... More

POWER

Energia: A proud concept in power management
WHEN Matsui Takamura first handed over to me the annual report of the Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., I paid little attention to it. His nostalgic recounting of the superior services of the electric company and of what seemed like a utopian ... More

Enron: Will it re-define business-govt links
IT IS inevitable that the collapse of Enron should have created a series of aftershocks on the political and economic environment of the US. Senator Joseph Lieberman, Chairman of the US Senators' Government Affairs Committee, has been ... More

ECONOMICS

Economics: Beyond the definition
AS EARLY as 1932, Lionel Robbins said in The Nature and Significance of Economic Science that a century earlier J. S. Mill had stated that the definition of a science had invariably not preceeded but followed the creation of the science ... More

LETTERS

Telecom tariff

US-64 imbroglio

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Kakinada port: A difficult transition

Foodgrains offtake surges by 55 per cent

Realty may get access to overseas borrowings

Railways shelves variable tariff plan for petro-products

TN to target specific IT sectors in new policy

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64

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