The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 05, 2002

Tackling the big four
IT IS a bad time for the auditing firms in the big league. Arthur Andersen has sunk like the Titanic. People are refusing to believe that in the whole wide world only Andersen was ugly and all the rest are pure as driven snow. The US President ... More

EDITORIAL

Pumping controversy
OBLIGE AND BE obliged. That seems to have been, and still is, the motto of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for years, irrespective of the party in power at the Centre. The recent ruckus in Parliament over the alleged unadulterated bias ... More

ECONOMY

UN Human Development Report 2002 — Why India still languishes
India's sliding rank in the Human Development Index is an alarm call to speed up our process of economic development with special emphasis on such indicators as education, public health and gender equality. More

The coming train-wreck
IN THE last two weeks, a spate of key economic indicators from the US and from Europe has turned down — rather significantly. We will quickly recall them here:

Philadelphia Federal Reserve District (the entire Eastern seaboard) ... More

POLITICS

Kashmir and the world
LAST week, Opposition parties were reported to have charged in the Lok Sabha that the Government's policy on the J&K issue — especially vis-à-vis the statements made by the visiting US Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell — was ... More

FINANCIAL POLICY

FM passes first test with panache
THE Government got the first batch of supplementary demands for grants for this fiscal passed in the Lok Sabha on July 31, with the Minister of Finance and Company Affairs, Mr Jaswant Singh, responding to all the issues raised by the members with ... More

RAILWAYS

Railways: The folly of Hajipurisation
THE Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, has earned for himself a somewhat dubious place in the history books for enhancing the already bloated babudom of the Indian Railways, a wasteful exercise that the Railway Board mandarins themselves ... More

LETTERS

Political consensus

Auditing the auditor

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Margin financiers behind Sensex fall?

ICAR headed for sleek look — Panel set up to `rightsize' administrative structure

Perquisites for official purposes not to be taxed — Onus on employer to furnish details

UN Human Development Report 2002 — Why India still languishes

The coming train-wreck

In Depth
Gender Justice

Simple Economics

Small Investor

Looking back
Jul. 28-Aug. 3
FDI confidence — While Asean revives, India struggles

Heading towards a hunger trap

The Powell-Musharraf connection

Cleansing the electoral process

Striving for a bone bank

Gangster economics