The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Enron: The swords and ploughshares
WAS the US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ms Christina Rocca, in India for two days (April 9 and 10) to discuss swords or ploughshares? The official line was that she was here to hold consultations with the External Affairs ... More

Enron and OPIC
WHEN Mr Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary, told the media on January 18 this year that the US Administration was concerned about the fate of the Dabhol power project, he had explained this concern on the grounds of US "tax-payer exposure ... More

EDITORIAL

Lifting the FDI cap
THE GOVERNMENT DECISION to exclude FII investment from the 49 per cent FDI sectoral cap in the telecommunication sector is clearly aimed at bailing out funds-starved projects. These projects, struggling to reach viable operation levels, need ... More

ECONOMY

Financing development
THE United Nations Conference on "Financing for Development", held at Monterrey, Mexico, in the third week of March, provided ample opportunity for development institutions and individual donors in the "aid business" to take stock of the current ... More

POLITICS

Is Prabhakaran really ready for peace?
A PALE shadow of the LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran greeted 200 odd journalists last week at Killinochchi in Sri Lanka, and millions watched the press conference all over the world, particularly in Sri Lanka and India. As the stocky, round-faced and ... More

Specious dictum
THE constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have done no service to themselves or to the cause of democracy by deciding to simply shut their eyes to whatever happens within the States of the Union on the specious argument that in a ... More

LETTERS

Interim dividend

Administrative reforms

Clarification

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