The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 18, 2002

Staff get serious
THE PUBLIC SECTOR Manganese Ore (India) Ltd has many things on the credit side. More than anybody else, its employees would vouchsafe this. Last week the Government decided to disinvest 51 per cent in the mini-ratna in favour of a ... More

ECONOMY

Appointments to the Finance Ministry
WE expect the highest level of efficiency from the civil service and this criterion becomes most crucial for the pivotal Finance Ministry. And efficiency is inevitably linked to the abilities of the personnel employed, which again depends on the ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

The NPA antidote
The new Ordinance, aimed at altering the way in which non-performing assets of banks and financial institutions are recovered, can serve its intended purpose with some fine-tuning, says Mohan R Lavi More

A private weakness
Company law unduly pampers private companies by exempting employee-shareholders from the headcount, says S. Murlidharan More

YesGee, No-ji
WHILE it is too common a knowledge that accountants elsewhere are scrambling around to retrieve their towels and loins from the mesh-y world of misreporting, it came as a surprise that a smattering of a gathering of CAs in Chennai wished to ... More

POLITICS

Beyond Cabinet and party changes
THERE are several well-calculated moves in the recent reallocation of cabinet portfolios,and sprucing up of the BJP's image by assigning young and energetic members of the Cabinet to party work.In recent months, the BJP suffered electoral ... More

TECHNOLOGY

Bridging tech gap thru incubation
TECHNOLOGICAL obsolescence has been the Achilles' heel of Indian industry, noticeably for the small-scale sector. The problem will assume a larger dimension when all the WTO norms come into play and the dominant determinant of international trade ... More

LETTERS

Failed monsoon

Petro racket

Renewal of socialism

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