The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Are anti-dumping measures justified?
THE beneficial effect of free and fair trade is well known. It creates income for the community by reallocating jobs and capital from low productivity to high productivity sectors. This holds true both in the static and in the dynamic sense. ... More

EDITORIAL

Landmark sale
THE STRATEGIC SALE of IPCL to the Reliance group is a landmark event in more ways than one. One, it has the distinction of fetching the largest revenue to the government from any single strategic sale yet. The Rs 1,491 crore garnered from the ... More

AUTOMOBILES

Auto policy: How to put it on track
THE need for an auto policy arose from two considerations. One was to put in place a subtle but protective wall around the domestic industry that was being threatened by the onslaught of new entrants from the US, Europe, Japan and Korea — ... More

POLITICS

Hijacking a debate for political ends
THE British Minister for Europe, Mr Peter Hain, is a honourable man. Even those who once turned apoplectic at the mere mention of his name happily concede that there is no straighter figure in British public life. South African-born, his vigorous ... More

When `saffron' failed to protect
OBVIOUSLY the Muslim hotel owner must have thought that the best protection a hotel can get in a VHP-dominated Gujarat would be its association with saffron. So he called his hotel in Ahmedabad `Saffrony'. But that was hardly enough to hoodwink ... More

CREDIT POLICY

Credit Policy: Road map for better banking system
THE Monetary and Credit Policy has the best blend of measures to speed up the second-generation reforms, and take banks towards the best practices, globally. The processes of deregulation, regulations and re-regulation are to infuse more strength ... More

FOODGRAINS

Towards sustainable food security
FOOD subsidies in India, under the Public Distribution System (PDS) have come under increasing scrutiny in the context of the country's precarious fiscal situation, on the one hand, and the absurdly high stocks of foodgrains, on the other. ... More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS

An opportunity to further G-20 cause
THE news about the appointment of Dr Y. V. Reddy, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, as Executive Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) at Washington DC, is one of the best things to happen for India and the members of the ... More

LETTERS

Bad signals for Railways

No war, no pain?

Cumulative FDs

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RBI bans physical deals with brokers

Uptrend in gold to continue on producer de-hedging

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64

Looking back
May. 12-May. 18
`LTTE has not come to the negotiating table to surrender': Dr Jayadeva Uyangoda

Playing catch with China

LTTE accepting reality of united Sri Lanka — Mr Jehan Perera